Fully functional sabre For at or around $300

I'd be interested to know if the Dynasty Forge sabers and smallsword ever made production; they've been listed without prices or availability since they first appeared about 2 years ago.

Well, I don't normally buy swords with the intent of ruining them regardless of age, so that's not really something that worries me.

Rather, when I buy a sword I don't want "a piece of history" but a reliable and attractive weapon that belongs to me, right now.



I'll be damned. I seriously had no idea DF even made sabers.

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Hopefully this $460 MSRP would translate to $300 or less on KoA... I haven't contact KoA yet, but according to DF, KoA could help me to get one if I want...

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The specs given here are pretty close to the CS www.coldsteel.com/18frofsa.html . When Ryan at Kult of Athena gets one of the CSs in, I may have to go down and take a look (living in driving range of KOA is dangerous to my wallet, but awesome). Now that I think about it, the CS Italian longsword I have looks a bit like some of Dynasty forge's medieval work...

Hi Dave,

Can you provide the link to KoA store? I can't find the DF sabre you mentioned above... My google-fu and KoA-fu is kind of weak, I guess....

The french officer's sabre doesn't seem to be that much different stats wise from the cold steel 1830, but who can say about the handling? I'm more of a cheapskate, looking at the windlass american revolution, windlass 1840 heavy cavalry and perhaps the cold steel gentleman's (could be a later acquisition if my skill improves). I'm a bit gunshy on the 1840 considering the reports of the hilt loosening.

I'm also in the camp of not caring to have an accurate reproduction, but a well operating sword.

I ended up getting a windlass american revolution saber. It's not a bad saber. It has some distal taper but not as much as it could have. It tapers slightly down the fuller then noticeably after that towards the tip. I like the wood grip and the hand guard is reassuringly substantial. Yes I need to spend more time with this saber to give a real report on it.

Well, I can see Dave just isn't TCB in my absence like I thought he would.

My own Windless American Revolutionary War Saber is now gone, and it was cut up into something entirely different before it was stolen, but I can comment somewhat on it. I can't drop the historical knowledge Dave could, but I can talk about the saber itself, and my impressions of it.

Let's talk about the good stuff first. I have always had a high opinion of Windlass's tempering, and this is (was) a well tempered blade. It would flex thirty degrees and bounce right back without any hint of a set. Yes, it was threaded, but as Dave has said in other threads, there's nothing wrong with that. "A threaded tang" does not necessarily mean a "rat tail tang." It was peened, over a threaded pommel cap. My WARW saber was tight, no rattles, even after cutting that was more enthusiastic than skilled.

There was some distal taper, but not nearly enough. I don't have my "Swords and Blades of the American Revolution" to hand, but IIRC, there's a close match in the book. Well, close from five feet, anyway.

I found the grip to be somewhat close, and that hindered the utility with the somewhat forward POB. Oh dear, now that I check KOA, I see that it's now just the Windlass American Revolution saber----at least that gives you the nifty acronym WAR saber, right? I retain a near moral certainty that the original (from "Swords and Blades") had a slightly recurved grip, whereas the grip is very much in line with the blade on the Windlass. Further, the original was almost certainly much, much thicker towards the base----I want to say 10mm, with rapid distal tapering.

I'd say it was a very well put together, not very accurate rendition.

HTH.

Dave,

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