A kit, not a curio

Mustered around

Double Japanese Sword Stand (Natural Wood)

This piece is slow off the hip. The muster gives you something that answers first.

• The piece in hand

  $289.99

  Double Japanese Sword Stand (Natural Wood)LW-0839

  The piece named at the table.

  The blade the fight is built around. Everything else answers what it leaves open.

• The sidearm

  $104.99Leave

  Rosewood Bowie with SheathLW-0040

  10" against the 34" in hand — it answers once the fight has closed.

  When the long steel is bound or beaten wide, the fight closes. Something short must answer inside the guard.

• The reach

  $184.99Leave

  Rapier Replacement Live BladeLW-0881

  42.5" of reach. It holds the ground before the line ever meets.

  Ground held before the line ever meets. Reach is the cheapest mercy on any field.

• The board

  $159.99Leave

  Talhoffer BucklerLW-0793

  What you refuse costs nothing to heal.

  Half of every fight is what you do not take. A shield argues by refusal.

• The helm

  $204.99Leave

  Sugar Loaf Helmet, 16gLW-0764

  Head first. Everything else is a wager on the head holding.

  The first thing a foe sees and the last thing that fails.

• The harness

  $254.99Leave

  Gambeson, Black, Buckle Closure X-LargeLW-0749

  Worn steel. The difference between a wound and a story.

  Mail, plate or padded cloth — what stands between a body and the day it ends.

• The care

  $52.99Leave

  Wood Stand with MagnetLW-0618

  Kept steel outlives the hand that carried it.

  An edge unkept is an edge lost. Oil, stand, sheath — the steel outlives its owner or it does not.