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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2008 20:26:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2008 22:05:34 GMT
I don't know what that was originally, but that's the first time I've seen a sword with a Scandinavian-like edge grind (like a Mora knife, for example). I kinda like it.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2008 2:17:25 GMT
The blade was originally a British 1796 Light Cavalry Sabre. The back of the blade is marked Gills. Its had a tip and false edge nicely ground on the broken blade , but the live edge has been resharpened several times by the look of it on a round grind stone. Bloody sharp almost down to the guard. Its nicked and stained, but has very little pitting.
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Post by hotspur on May 21, 2008 17:35:21 GMT
I'm wondering if it might not actually started life as something else. Nothing about the hilt itself speaks 1796 LCS to me but that certainly doesn't mean a different hilt might not have been applied to a cut down blade. As so many sabres, both longer and shorter, kind of have a similar blade shape; I'm left with more questions than answers. I guess it could be entirely made up of leftovers.
My eagle sabre had also been sharpened at a low angle in modern times and was similarly very scary sharp. Unfortunately it was also scuffed quite a bit in the process at about 400 grit (either a belt or stone) and working out those scratches without losing original grind and polishing marks has become quite a chore. I know I would lose all the original indicators if dropping to that coarse a paper and still need to work it some more. I have generally used 800 and then 1500 (what was available at Wally World that day) for another blade I brought back but am working this one with just generic green scrubbies and then 1500. A long way to go yet at those levels but it does look a lot better and I can still see the original grind. That one might benefit from an entire hybrid type polish starting even coarser than 800 but I was amazed at how fast 800 cuts a lot of ugly without going too far.
Interesting piece.
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Hotspur; what's left of the guard looks like a couple of simple stirrup types I have from a little later than 1800
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2008 17:46:47 GMT
Likely the only 1796 LC component is the blade., IMO.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2008 0:14:20 GMT
Likely the only 1796 LC component is the blade., IMO. Jonathan Thats true. The only part thats LCS is the blade stamped Gills. The hilt is period replacement, with a nice fishskin wrap over a wood core. Original hilt replaced with a lighter brass guard and pommel. The original reshaping was professionally done as evident by how polished the false edge is. The active cutting edge has been re-shapened at least once with a grind stone. The angle of nicks in the edge come from multiple angles and I count about 15 semi-serious ones with many more having been ground out. This has had a active life from the looks of it.
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