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Post by Student of Sword on Sept 14, 2013 13:34:29 GMT
Mr. Kelly,
I understand that you have the Cold Steel 1796 that Little JP had regrinded by Arm and Armor. In your opinion, is this worth the effort to buy a Cold Steel and have it regrind so that it's handling would be more historical?
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Post by Dave Kelly on Sept 14, 2013 14:03:04 GMT
Welllll....
Arms and Armor took about 7 ozs off the blade to bring it back to something more like the Osborn specks of the originals. Turned a heavy, sluggish sabre into a pretty fast chopper. It was worth it to me to buy it from JP when he got tired of playing with steel other than guitar strings. ( I sold my CS 96 off and helped defray my cost. Think I paid him $450.00. JP had a rep for playing hard with his toys and didn't know how to fix'em afterwards. :lol: )
That was, what, 2 years ago? A&A charged him $400.00 for the CNC work then. CS swords could be had $50 cheaper than now.
Do you want to spend 650-800 on a hi-customized '96 that you'll be lucky to get half back for?
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Post by Student of Sword on Sept 15, 2013 2:52:33 GMT
Thank you. I figure I never get the money back anyway. In my experienced, any customization is considered a loss. I'm just wondering if the regrind would result in the performance at par with the original sword.
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Post by Dave Kelly on Sept 16, 2013 21:11:41 GMT
From what I've handled I would give it a most definitely performs like a real military '96
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Post by Kilted Cossack on Sept 19, 2013 18:50:14 GMT
So, having A&A regrind a Cold Steel saber makes as much sense as having the Custom Sword Shoppe fix up a Windlass Thirty Years War sword?  |
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Post by StevenJ on Sept 19, 2013 19:03:44 GMT
Well you can buy one and do it yourself. A quick trip to harbor freight and a 1x30 belt sander and a spray bottle of water should be good means to get you started. I never reground a sabre but I have reground my fair share of replica medieval warswords.
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Post by Dave Kelly on Sept 20, 2013 9:58:35 GMT
If ya gots da beans, shore... :mrgreen:  |
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Post by Dave Kelly on Sept 20, 2013 10:11:55 GMT
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Post by William Swiger on Sept 20, 2013 10:18:10 GMT
Yeah - I am only good at doing leather grips and some light sharpening.
I personally would never buy a medieval sword that could not cut well out of the box unless it just needed a small touch-up. A few sharpened DSA swords I reworked the edges on and a few unsharpened Windlass swords just killed any desire to do it again. ;-)
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