VA-54007
Jul 3, 2010 16:00:57 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2010 16:00:57 GMT
Greetings! New to forum, but a long time sword enthusiast and collector. I've had the (mis)fortune to buy everything from cheap Spanish SLOs to an Atlantean (that I lost in my divorce...grrr) and my usual payday fodder is made by Windlass.
That being said, one of my earliest "battle ready" swords was a CAS Iberia "Lord of the Rings," pretty much the same as a Valiant VA-54007 only with brass cross and pommel. I loved the look of this sword and was thrilled to order it. When it arrived it was clunky, even by my rather low standards of the time, heavy and a real shoulder dislocater to swing. My first and last cutting test was on a full shoulder ham resting on a snow bank (Alaska at the time). The blade cut about 2/3rds of the way into the ham and stopped and the pommel popped off, complete with about 2" of tang, and hit me in the forehead. Following several heated letters with the supplier, now out of business, I epoxied the pommel back on and used it as a display piece for several years.
But I've never managed to get over my love affair with the looks of that particular sword. I had hopes that Valiant would do a better job with it, but I had a chance to look at one of their "Irish Swords" at a con recently and found it to be the same unwieldy clunker that CAS marketed so many years ago.
I wonder what it would take to turn this handsome SLO into a decent sword for cutting and general play? I've thought of asking Brendan from Fable Blades about a custom version, but thought I would open it up to the forum for opinions.
That being said, one of my earliest "battle ready" swords was a CAS Iberia "Lord of the Rings," pretty much the same as a Valiant VA-54007 only with brass cross and pommel. I loved the look of this sword and was thrilled to order it. When it arrived it was clunky, even by my rather low standards of the time, heavy and a real shoulder dislocater to swing. My first and last cutting test was on a full shoulder ham resting on a snow bank (Alaska at the time). The blade cut about 2/3rds of the way into the ham and stopped and the pommel popped off, complete with about 2" of tang, and hit me in the forehead. Following several heated letters with the supplier, now out of business, I epoxied the pommel back on and used it as a display piece for several years.
But I've never managed to get over my love affair with the looks of that particular sword. I had hopes that Valiant would do a better job with it, but I had a chance to look at one of their "Irish Swords" at a con recently and found it to be the same unwieldy clunker that CAS marketed so many years ago.
I wonder what it would take to turn this handsome SLO into a decent sword for cutting and general play? I've thought of asking Brendan from Fable Blades about a custom version, but thought I would open it up to the forum for opinions.