07-30-2012, 03:16 AM
I think it depends on where the individual re-enactor wishes to draw the line, none of the 'off the rack' kopis offerings are historically 'correct', the Windlass comes close in overall shape but for some reason it has chrome steel spacers in the grip and the scabbard looks more akin to something one might choose for an 18th-19th century Native American impression. :mrgreen:
The kopis scabbard as seen in period art looks much the same as the xiphos scabbard ie straight as opposed to curved. Which you will notice Craig Sitch of Manning Imperial has beautifully recreated and yes it is very expensive and it will be sometime before I could afford to go that route (actually I'm a little torn between the Manning kopis and xiphos, really sucks to not be wealthy! lol)..
Of all of those that I've seen and believe me I have looked everywhere! The Windlass would be perhaps the easiest to reconfigure, just need to rework the grip and have a scabbard made, though it is rather small, not much larger than the average fighting knife but still within the size range of the period kopis which could be anywhere from knife size to full length swords.
The kopis scabbard as seen in period art looks much the same as the xiphos scabbard ie straight as opposed to curved. Which you will notice Craig Sitch of Manning Imperial has beautifully recreated and yes it is very expensive and it will be sometime before I could afford to go that route (actually I'm a little torn between the Manning kopis and xiphos, really sucks to not be wealthy! lol)..
Of all of those that I've seen and believe me I have looked everywhere! The Windlass would be perhaps the easiest to reconfigure, just need to rework the grip and have a scabbard made, though it is rather small, not much larger than the average fighting knife but still within the size range of the period kopis which could be anywhere from knife size to full length swords.
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
