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# 46 25-05-2004 , 06:16 PM

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Here is a diagram with the name of each part of a rapier (I am not sure if these terms apply to any kind of sword, but most probably do, like "Pommel" and "Quillon").

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# 47 25-05-2004 , 06:29 PM

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Well, obviously a pirate would pick up stuff from different places, and of course it doesn't have to have the typical pirate sword, but I doubt a pirate would pick up a useless sword. Different swords have different purposes/uses, rapiers don't have slashing power, they were made pur puncturing the enemy, and you have to be trained to use that, what use would a pirate have for one? I would imagine a pirate would prefer a saber, or even a samurai sword, because then he can "swing it" at the enemies, and haven't you even seen a pirate grab on to a rope, then cut it somewhere below his hand and be pulled up to the other ship or something? hehe user added image

About the rapier being "fancier", look at the picture I attached. number 363.1 (it apears twice) is a saber and it's all fancy. Notice how it has a thick curved blade, that's for slashing throats user added image

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also, the gold teeth sounds like a good idea. Obviously he should also have some missing.

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# 48 25-05-2004 , 07:06 PM

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Ok in the picture 1/ shows the quillions and 2/ shows the swept hand guards. On a Cup hilt rapier, has a bowl/cup shaped guard, the swept hand guards meet along the quillions somewhere, depending on design, and dont protrude thought on on top of the cup.

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# 49 25-05-2004 , 07:18 PM

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Right NightPhantoms put up some good ref pics there, beat me to it user added image

. To correct one small point, haha, the rapier was used for cutting as much as for stabbing. To be totally correct western swords relyed as much on weight and a good hard swing to cut wereas the easten swords were truely design and made to cut thought things as easily as possilbe.

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# 50 25-05-2004 , 07:23 PM

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Thank you guys I am very grateful to you. It really helped.
He will have a rapier-hilted dagger(just shorten the blade, right?) +sabre +pistol. I will find something nice for the hilt.

PS. He is already missing a bunch of teeth, in fact al the top ones except those he is holding the dagger with

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# 51 25-05-2004 , 07:37 PM

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ur work is good i hope u will complete skeleton with in a short time and may i know r u intrested to animate ur skeleton model

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# 52 25-05-2004 , 07:45 PM

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if your wanting to make a rapier style parrying dagger, the guard will be surround the hand alot more, have bigger curvy quillions( to trap the blade ) and have a short thick blade. This might look a bit out of place on a pirate so I would suggest a more simple style.

For example looking at sabre no. 398 above. Shorton the blade and stretch out the grip and hand guard.

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# 53 25-05-2004 , 08:47 PM

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https://therionarms.com/reenact/mon_dagger.html - reference for quillons

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# 54 25-05-2004 , 09:35 PM

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well, added and subtracted teeth, dagger

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# 55 26-05-2004 , 01:50 AM

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sabre now looks like a sabre user added image

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# 56 28-05-2004 , 12:58 AM

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Thx to all, this challenge gave me very much, I learned a lot, it was a pleasure.

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# 57 28-05-2004 , 01:40 AM

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that's pretty cool, try and find some time to rig it though, it would be awesome posed, and I would imagine it would be easy to rig since there's an object for each bone, right? But I don't know... Still cool though :tup:

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