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Post by Jordan Williams on Sept 4, 2018 16:10:55 GMT
In terms of balance.
I've read a lot on this and other forums that after the Franco Prussian war the Mle 1822 went through a lot of changes, the apparently most significant of these in the blade with it becoming much heavier and with a more pronounced nose bias.
Mine was made in 1876 and has a single ring scabbard, and has the full length blade and all that guff. Can't tell if the grip is straighter than the early stuff or not. The sword itself is more nimble than any other cavalry sword I have or have had in my collection, it make a the KS52/79 feel like a brick, the US 1860 feel like a cleaver, and the P1822/Tiffany like it wanted to wrench itself away.
Was it still an amazing sword after the changes? Or did the blade changes come sometime in the 1880s? I've looked through and can't find specifics about when the dynamics and balance changed.
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Post by Afoo on Sept 5, 2018 3:17:57 GMT
Not sure the 1822 ever got "heavy". I recall somewhere that the post-war swords might have been made to looser tolerances due to budget cuts etc, but that seems to be hearsay, at least from what I know. Oldswords states that the manufacturing process was changed in July 29, 1851. The end of the fullers also changed in 1860, indicative of changes in the manufacturing process. I suspect that, while the average weight distribution of the pre/post-war populations has shifted, the variance between individual swords will be hard to detect - ie: the top graph in the figure below. In other words, the individual variation between one population (eg" pre-war 1822's) far exceeds the overall variation between the two different populations
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Post by Jordan Williams on Sept 14, 2018 4:41:28 GMT
Ahhh okay. I always interpreted it as the sword becoming more nose heavy and unwieldy, which I found odd as mine right now would be fit for infantry usage if made light feeling. The graph is incredibly helpful for me. Thanks a ton for the info and response
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Post by bfoo2 on Sept 15, 2018 6:49:40 GMT
Maybe the Germans came and took away all the good 1822s during the Franco-Prussian war, and left the French with the garbage ones?
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