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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 15:56:11 GMT
I bought a sword at the MRL sale last weekend,it is in the catalog as the Swedish viking sword but with just a plain black leather handle on it.This one was on a one off table with about only 8 or 10 different swords and the handle had been redone in a really nice brown leather. I was looking at some reviews on line and someone said the pommel was attached with a pin through the pommel and the tang to the other side of the pommel.I looked at mine and same thing.I've never seen a sword with a pommel held on this way.I dont know if it was threaded on first then pinned or it's just pinned.Actually they did a great job hiding the pin,it's real hard to see. Has anyone seen this before as a way to hold a sword together and how might it hold out. You can see it right in the middle of the pommel it looks like a little smuge.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 16:02:27 GMT
Yeah that's done on sword which for the most part, difficult to peen conventionally.. I'd say, that there is sweet. How much did you pay?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 16:17:59 GMT
When these swords showed up for the first time they were just threaded and were not very secure. They obviously added this peen to secure them. I like it.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 16:58:29 GMT
Han Dynasty jian. i also did this to my rodell jian that had a problem with the tang threads. not entirely uncommon, just not totally common. my sifu's jian was assembled this way, as well.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 17:17:48 GMT
I paid $115.00 for it,sharpened which is darn good.It goes for $255.00 or 273.00 sharpened in the catalog with the black leather handle but i think this custom grip makes it look like a totally different sword,even the scabbard is brown. Glad to know it will be secure for cutting a bit, BTW is 32in on the long side for a single handed viking blade. thanks all.
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Post by Tom K. (ianflaer) on May 27, 2010 23:52:33 GMT
BTW is 32in on the long side for a single handed viking blade. thanks all. looking through records it seems most type X blades are 30-31" long with a fair number that are 28-29" but there is one at 32 and another at 34 and even one at 23". to me it would seem 32" is perfectly acceptable from a historic plausibility view point. if you handed it to a warrior of the day he might grunt and say something like "you like a longer sword I see" but he wouldn't say "what is this? why is it so damn long? that's just weird." so: I'd say it's on the long end of normal but still normal enough not to raise eyebrows. in fact this pommel is somewhat similar to X.6 in Records; not QUITE the same but pretty close. close enough I'd expect it may have been the inspiration for the pommel on this sword.
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Post by kidcasanova on May 28, 2010 1:09:46 GMT
I have this sword (well technically, I bought it for my brother) and I can't say I would recommend it to another person. The blade harmonics are way off, making cutting with the sword, even at the COP, very uncomfortable. Not to mention it's a very floppy blade, way beyond what I would expect even from a cutting oriented Type X.
If the harmonics issue was fixed (not that it will be, tbh it's Windlass) then it could be a great sword. The pommel is really killer and I like the grip yours came with. With a bit of DIY you could add some distal taper and really really improve the sword. That said...for 115 bucks it's a pretty good deal, I paid 240 for my brother's over a year ago.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 1:54:23 GMT
"you like a longer sword I see" but he wouldn't say "what is this? why is it so damn long? that's just weird." The way you worded that was just weird 32 inches isn't freakishly long, just not the most common thing. You want to arm your soldiers with something easy to make.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 8:29:58 GMT
if you handed it to a warrior of the day he might grunt and say something like "you like a longer sword I see" but he wouldn't say "what is this? why is it so damn long? that's just weird." Ha! +1 for this, my back is hurting and it was a much appreciated laugh.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 8:42:59 GMT
That's an interesting find. In my experience vending for Windlass, they simply don't customize stuff - they do not have the ability or desire to do so, so this was definately a one off, perhaps even a prototype for the production sword. I am inclined to believe this since Windlass does not take returns on sharpened swords.
Quite a deal at $115...
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 9:06:44 GMT
Oh yeah, forgot to say, congratulations on the sword, cool find.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 12:09:10 GMT
Hey kidcasanova yea usually windlass blades are a bit thin and whimpy near the point but this one is solid and is not even close to whimpy,another reason i bought it. Maybe it has something to do with it being a one off and them trying something new.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2010 0:35:27 GMT
I wondered about those...as far as Viking swords go, it was one of the better looking ones, IMO. However, they never seem to get that these swords should not have a diamond cross section beneath the fuller...
I've noticed Windlass seems to be vying for some of the marketshare that Sonny et al are currently dominating...as kid said, it is Windlass...that's all the caveat I need.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2010 0:55:30 GMT
You know what they said about Vikings with long swords...
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