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Dedicated to the Memory of Hank Reinhardt

Hank Reinhardt

Hank Reinhardt: 1934 - 2007

This site would not have existed if it wasn't for Hank Reinhardt...

Hank and several other industry professionals realized the need for such a site in early 2007. Even at 73 years old, Hank was an energetic man - always with a dozen different projects on the go at once.

Sword Manufacturers Guide was inspired by Hank and was a site he was planning to create himself, though after hearing about Sword Buyers Guide.com he passed the torch to me to develop it with his blessing.

Sadly, Hank never got to see this project launched...

And it was to be that this page is where he would make his own comments and observations on the sword industry as a whole...

Even though my own correspondence with Hank was limited to a series of emails and the submission of two book reviews that he had recently read, which are preserved below, and his final interview in April 2007, his impact was profound.

R.I.P. Mr. Reinhardt. The last of the old guard has passed...

ABOUT HANK REINHARDT

Sword and Arms Historian Hank Reinhardt was a legend of the sword industry.

One of the founding members of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronisms), co-founder of Museum Replicas Limited (which he sold to Windlass Steelcrafts in 1995) and founder of the HACA (Historical Armed Combat Association) - these were just a few of the strings to his bow.

Hank was also a close personal friend of the late, great sword scholar Ewart Oakeshott, Hank Reinhardt was also a true and very pragmatic swordsman who had produced several videos on the subject including ‘How to Use the Viking Sword in REAL combat’ and ‘Myth of the Sword’

Never a man to mince his words, Hank was well known for his straightforward, pragmatic attitude and was famous for his love of 'clever witticisms', which he rejected his friends calling bad jokes...

1934 to October 30, 2007. R.I.P.

HANK's REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEW: By the Sword
BOOK REVIEW: Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

HANK REINHARDTS FINAL INTERVIEW - May 2007


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