2nd cutting test with my Cold Steel Cavalry Sabre!
Apr 5, 2007 3:48:40 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2007 3:48:40 GMT
Hello all,
Get ready to laugh y'all! Like I said the other day, I had tried a cutting test with my new Cold Steel sabre (the replacement) and failed miserably. That time I tried two or three times and succeeded in only cutting about halfway through the 4 or 5" matt roll and knocking it over each time. I then tried my katana and it cut through it like butter.
Well I saved enough of the roll for another test in good daylight, no hindrances, distractions, etc.. So a while ago I tried again. This time I made sure my matt-roll stand was held down or anchored. I swung it once and again cut only half through it. The next time I put all I had into it, both strikes or cuts being from rt to lft and at an ever so slight downward angle. That last time it again only cut halfway or three quarters of the way through it, but knocked or tore the upper stand tube loose from its base. I was left with the flat square base on the ground with a torn cardboard disc set in a circular depression that had been the bottom of the tube, with some small nails or staples sticking up. I wonder if at the moment of the strike my blade was angled wrong or something? I wonder if it is just not sharp enough? Perhaps I am just some sort of nimrod or something?
Anyway, what the heck! So I lit into a cardboard box and attacked it in force, both cutting and thrusting. That sabre made short work of the box. If I could afford it I would like to try my katana and my sabre on a big piece of meat like they do on Cold Steel's demo DVDs.
Just thought y'all might like to imagine a frustrated 316lb man attacking a box with a bad-arsed sabre!
Naw, all joking aside, I don't think my sabre is as sharp as the katana. And then again I might have had the blade a tad off center or something. Will try again one of these days after I hone that edge some.
Take care my brethren,
Freebooter
Get ready to laugh y'all! Like I said the other day, I had tried a cutting test with my new Cold Steel sabre (the replacement) and failed miserably. That time I tried two or three times and succeeded in only cutting about halfway through the 4 or 5" matt roll and knocking it over each time. I then tried my katana and it cut through it like butter.
Well I saved enough of the roll for another test in good daylight, no hindrances, distractions, etc.. So a while ago I tried again. This time I made sure my matt-roll stand was held down or anchored. I swung it once and again cut only half through it. The next time I put all I had into it, both strikes or cuts being from rt to lft and at an ever so slight downward angle. That last time it again only cut halfway or three quarters of the way through it, but knocked or tore the upper stand tube loose from its base. I was left with the flat square base on the ground with a torn cardboard disc set in a circular depression that had been the bottom of the tube, with some small nails or staples sticking up. I wonder if at the moment of the strike my blade was angled wrong or something? I wonder if it is just not sharp enough? Perhaps I am just some sort of nimrod or something?
Anyway, what the heck! So I lit into a cardboard box and attacked it in force, both cutting and thrusting. That sabre made short work of the box. If I could afford it I would like to try my katana and my sabre on a big piece of meat like they do on Cold Steel's demo DVDs.
Just thought y'all might like to imagine a frustrated 316lb man attacking a box with a bad-arsed sabre!
Naw, all joking aside, I don't think my sabre is as sharp as the katana. And then again I might have had the blade a tad off center or something. Will try again one of these days after I hone that edge some.
Take care my brethren,
Freebooter