Hi Pwyll,

I have started putting some of the info up at the offcial site for the weekend:
http://rvweekend.wordpress.com/

I should be posting some updates soon as well. Definitely a fun time for the last 4 years, this should be no different.

A few years ago Chris did a class for us on the dirk system, pretty interesting. Best part was at the end of the class we got to act out a famous wedding scene where one angry Highlander pulled a dirk and stabbed several guests before jumping out a window. We had random people pull hidden knives and...

I know Chris really well and have had him as a house guest a few times. He definitely is for real and knows his material which is purely Scottish. His targe work may be closer to I.33 than the rest which is based on a variety of later period sources. He will be coming out my way in mid July to do a ...

I am pretty new to this whole thing but live in Ohio and find myself definitely interested. Not sure of a good location but I definitely can look into a few places.

You can find pics of the mountain axe here: http://oprishki.wordpress.com/ This style of axe is very easy to make...take a small hatchet head and put on a three foot handle. it's authentic and very useful and best of all cheap! It is/was the walking stick of choice in theh Carpathian mountains for c...

Did you ever sell this? I know someone looking to buy this model.

Coming in a bit late.... You most certainly cannot chop axe handles into bits with a sword. Possibly if you secured both ends in concrete but definitely not while being held in the hands...did it ever happen, likely but I would bet all that i am worth that it was not very often. Worry more about the...