Sadly the History of Weapons and War video platform, set up by Ian of Forgotten Weapons (and featuring content creators including myself British Muzzleloaders, Bloke on the Range, Chieftain, and 9Hole Reviews amongst many more great channels) is set to close down at this end of the month. If you used the platform and supported my work there – thank you very much.
Special thanks to Ian for setting up and running this platform and for very kindly inviting me to join the project.
It was great to be a part of a community of content creators which put together videos on the more nuanced, academic or technical side of guns and small arms.
Over the last year or so HoWW really subsidised my work in the sense that it provided a solid, reliable income – which YouTube sadly never has. It justified the hours of research, editing and production which go into most of my videos.
I love making videos and content on the topics I think are important and interesting and I hope I’ll be able to continue doing that but I can only say that since HoWW began YT has only gotten worse in terms of supporting my (and probably others) work in this area.
Annoyingly, Playeur, another video platform I joined about 5 years ago also closed down this month – this again shrinks the number of places that TAB videos can be found. We seem to be in a contracting space where more serious firearms content no longer has many viable homes.
So I’ll soldier on as long as I can justify taking the average of a solid couple of days out of my working week to make the content that I (and hopefully you guys) enjoy.
If you’d like to support the work I do on TAB (beyond very helpfully sharing my work with friends – thank you!) then the best thing you can do is head over to our Patreon page and check that out here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/thearmourersbench
For everyone watching this I’ve set up a discount that’s valid for the next week or so. 25% off joining the TAB Patreon for all HOWW users. Simply head to the page and use the code: TABHOWW25
You get all videos early and some thank you perks too!
Thanks as always for your continued support.
– Matt
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The Armourer’s Bench is a collaborative effort from Vic Tuff and Matthew Moss. We will be bringing you detailed examinations of historic small arms from around the world. We will delve into the history, use and operation of the weapons using videos, blog posts and high resolution images to tell their story.
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