Ever tried to make a rapier out off a small riding whip?

Ever tried to make a rapier out off a small riding whip ? You’d have the advantage that you can use it exactly as it should be used atacking with the tip of the blade aswell as doing a parie but totally safe . I’ve seen it once it looked really awsome if you ask me :wink:

Greets Idhrenelin

Hiya Idhrenelin!

So, what, the whip would retain the flexibility of a rapier? Are you talking about a full stop-lunge where the blade curves into a half moon?

Or is it just that the tip is safely blunt with no pointy bits to punch through?

(Please don’t read my comments as criticism in any way - I’m just trying to get a mental image of what you have in mind…)

The nice thing about the fibreglass in the longer (lunging) whips is that they taper towards the tip. They bend into a J shape very nicely.

@ theamazingcathrin
I was talking about full-lunge attacks where the blade might bend arc-like. As lunging with a unflexible core would be too dangerous because the core could come through the latex an really cause injuries.(I don’t know how it is with you people in new zealand but in germany all stabbing actions with weapons that have a solid core are forbidden for safety reasons) . And why bother having a rapier if you can’t use it as it’s supposed to be used.

@derek
The rapier I saw had a blade of approx. 1 meter length. I have to admit that with the weight of latex added it bend a little bit but it still looked great.

Those are the kind of whips that I was thinking of:

Sorry - just read my own post and realised how little sense it made.

“Lunging” - with a sword and “lunging” with a horse* are two different things.

There are long whips used with horses called “lunging whips” that are about 1m long and taper to a fine point. If these had some kind of tip put on them, they would make an excellent core for a rapier.

  • lunging with a horse is where the person stands on foot and has the horse ride around them in circles attached to a rope.

Funny you mention it - I saw a thread on Pagga a while back that dealt with exactly that: here.

And it passed German LARP tests, which are notoriously stringent.