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Post by soap11x on Oct 5, 2016 6:01:14 GMT
Wow! the detail is incredible! I just recently swung one of those for a friends wedding. We are in the US Army and the ROTC battalion kindly provided several sabers for the saber arch that you see in military weddings. The sabers that we had were decorative and ironically had a big "made in china" stamp... Anyhow, I am very surprised to see that Cold Steel actually makes those and how close to the original they are. Thank you for the great review - I shall spread this among my peers that are sword enthusiasts!
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Post by Jordan Williams on Oct 5, 2016 6:20:06 GMT
How flexible is flexible. It's clearly a well-made blade and thin, too, but how flexible should a sword blade be? It's even more flexible than my more recently made NCO sword. I realize that neither of these were intended for actual fighting but it's an interesting question. How flexible were (or are) rapier blades in comparison? Rapier blades are very stiff, as they are made for thrusting. These are not rapiers though, they are dress cut and thrust sabres, and not meant to be carried in a field. Thrust centric swords (the good ones anyhow) are almost always going to be stiffer than other styles of sword.
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Post by bfoo2 on Oct 6, 2016 4:40:56 GMT
I have a NS Meyer / Spartan M1902 of Post-WWII production. Even though it looks like a sabre and smells like a sabre, it handles like a smallsword. It's really too light for serious cutting. On the other hand, it's light and fast enough to make a formidable smallsword. Also the blade is quite thick throughout which (while precluding effective sharpening) makes it actually quite stiff and really good in the thrust. In the original post, the blade thickness at the tip was given as 3mm and this is consistent with the advertised stats on Kult of Athena. A 3mm thick tip will thrust juuussst fine.
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Post by bluetrain on Oct 6, 2016 10:47:49 GMT
Except for the guard, the M1902 sword is quite similar to the so-called Hutton practice saber of the 19th century. The blade may be longer or shorter and the curve may not be exactly the same but the similarity is remarkable. I wonder if anyone has ever noticed that before, which someone must have. It was like a fencing enthusiast was involved. On the other hand, that might be a stretch of the imagination since Hutton was English, not American. But there were considerable transatlantic military influences from the beginning, so it is possible.
I don't know that mine handles like a smallsword, which is neither good nor bad, but only because it isn't a smallsword. The one I have is probably stiff enough for a good thrust but no where near as stiff as the Cold Steel smallsword I have or the 1897 infantry sword I used to have, which is probably the best of the three for fighting, all things considered. But when sharpened, as the Cold Steel version is, the M1902 might have an edge over the others. Anyway, the one I have does have a very flexible blade. The British sword is more similar to the French and Prussian infantry officer swords in use during the same period.
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