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Post by darth on Jul 18, 2016 20:38:35 GMT
Seems to me that I could send this blade to Lukas, pay him to shave the blade and either he or someone else could add more steel to the hand guard’s exterior and connect it in a way to give the thing more strength ( so in a theoretical fight, another sword or a crowbar does not take your fingers out) and with the shave and more mass in the hand guard ( and a bit more at the bottom of the handgurad, it could improve this thing's handling and capitalise on the solid build, unlike the CS Back Sword. :-)
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Post by Dave Kelly on Jul 18, 2016 22:54:42 GMT
Posted here by "dooh". Move on, move on. Nothing to see.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Aug 20, 2016 8:27:05 GMT
The weight of my Cromwell is 1301 gram. The POB is 7 cm or 2.76". That is very close to the hilt. Too close for a cavalry sword, which it is supposed to be. Like you said, it handles well because of that, but it does not have the power of a cavalry sword with the balance so far back. All the mass sits in the hilt. Not much cutting power, but a nice fencer. The Windlass has it the other way around. My Cromwell is a little lighter: 1249g. I didn't check the POB - the forward pivot point is very close to the tip, which makes for a good cut-thrust sword. Without doing anything bad to the "cut" part of that, either. My British cavalry sabres have forward pivot point at about the end of the fuller, where the blade thins a lot for slicing. Which makes for a good sabre, IMO. The original Cromwell sword is supposedly 3lb (probably rounded to the nearest 1/4 lb). Don't know how it's balanced. The Royal Armouries now has good stats for the original Cromwell on their website: collections.royalarmouries.org/object/rac-object-185.html2lb 6oz = 1077g. So the replicas are heavier.
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Post by bluetrain on Sept 8, 2016 11:17:48 GMT
There's something about that basket hilt that makes me think it would snap shut on my hand if I picked it up.
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