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Post by Tom K. (ianflaer) on Jul 9, 2009 5:11:00 GMT
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Jul 9, 2009 5:38:15 GMT
Awesome post. And you can see they are clean cuts...
What swords are they? I'd expect that from Windlass.
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Post by Tom K. (ianflaer) on Jul 9, 2009 5:59:23 GMT
Albion Norman and Atim 1429 modified into a very stiff and kinda heavy type XII (MHAT XII)
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Post by hotspur on Jul 9, 2009 6:48:55 GMT
Those are great shots Tom. As someone still on dial-up the frame shots like this are priceless. I have always counted on timing for still shots. This one particularly shows a very clean cut with an early migration recreation from Kevin Cashen and the flex is apparent in this take. It is a thin blade, yet quite true to history. Jonathan Hopkins had posted a video of some British cavalry sabres in action. /index.cgi?board=military&action=display&thread=9192 There was a great PBS special with some similar slow motion cutting from horseback. Quite similar to the Royal Armoury video, if in fact it was takes from the smae filmings. While stiff vs flexy may seem a real part in cutting there are diffrent reasons why a rigid sword such as katana, or say a quite stiff western sword may seem to excell. The heaviest through cuts of a dense target a small crowd of us were managing were done so more often with quite thin yet very stout blades, regardless that many might be considered by some to be whippy. Katana failed in this testing but still excel in mediums such as mats. Cheers Hotspur; flexy, stiff, short, long; swords are fun
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2009 20:49:53 GMT
Nice, nice stuff guys...keep'm comin!
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Post by shadowhowler on Jul 9, 2009 21:43:04 GMT
It's interesting to see just how much they flex in the cut... you don't really FEEL it in the hand, or at least I don't. I'm sure that longsword of yours has quite a bit of flex in the cut, but it feels rock solid as it goes threw the mat. So strange... yet cool.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2009 21:44:49 GMT
Tom, you have poor edge alignment In Jonathan's video, you will notice that poor edge alignment the fellow has in the first cut in that video GREATLY deflects and causes the blade to flex. However, on the second cut his alignment is MUCH better, and the sword barely deflects.
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Post by Tom K. (ianflaer) on Jul 9, 2009 23:44:22 GMT
Yup, Sam is right. I actually went through my vids and picked the cuts that had the most flex in them and they were the ones I was a little off in. I was on enough to get the cut through but they all felt a little rough. the cuts where I made them clean produced much smaller curves the fourth picture was actually a pretty good cut but all the rest were just ok. they could have ben better
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2009 15:14:20 GMT
It's interesting to see just how much they flex in the cut... you don't really FEEL it in the hand, or at least I don't. I'm sure that longsword of yours has quite a bit of flex in the cut, but it feels rock solid as it goes threw the mat. So strange... yet cool. That's exactly what was going through my head looking at those pics. Thanks for posting those. I would have never thought you would see such flex on a successful cut. On a totally failed cut, where you bounce off the target or something yea, but not where you actually make the cut. Just goes to show how important form and blade angle really matter.
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