Okay, with several sword fights. But that's how all the best stories begin, right?

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Anyhow, this series of sword fights resulted in me winning several back to back tournaments. Yes, I won some prizes; no, none of them were sword racks. But along with the various prizes, I also won the obligation to run said series of tournaments the following year. As well as arrange for their prizes.

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I think you can see where this is going.

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Being me, I decided to make most of those prizes myself. Call it inspired, call it stubborn, call it stupid - it all comes down to the same result: me creating a heck of a lot of sawdust over the course of a couple months as I sawed and measured and drilled and planed and stained and Who Knows What Else in the workshop. And in the process, I managed to make a few prizes.

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The origins of Hold My Sword came from those tournaments. The sword racks you find on this site are a simplified, "I'm not as good at fine woodworking as he is" version of a design initially created by my friend David Biggs. I just managed to find a nice source of hardwoods and a different way of putting the pieces together that people seem to like.

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I hope you like my sword racks as well. I know I certainly love making them.

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Thanks,

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Doug

(also known in the SCA as Simon Morcar, OL, OP, OD, WS, etc.)

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