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Post by tsmspace on May 28, 2020 6:34:12 GMT
ok, so for a lot of swords, the edge holding is important, a lot of them won't bend once past a fairly low price point unless you really hit them hard and they don't cut.
a rapier is really thin, though, on both cross sections.
so if I want to backyard cut with a rapier,,, I can only assume that the deepeeka will bend. what sort of bottom line price point is going to be functional?? It's a much less meaty blade, so I can't imagine a lower quality metal is going to do the trick. rapiers would have evolved a lot sooner, I would imagine, if lower quality metal could make one.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Jun 13, 2020 5:09:46 GMT
Is it a less meaty blade or are you assuming? The antique I handled certainly was not thin.
Del Tin.
The Indian made/Chinese products are trash.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 13, 2020 5:36:30 GMT
Take a look at the Kingston Arms Renaissance Sidesword.
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Post by tsmspace on Jun 13, 2020 6:05:43 GMT
Is it a less meaty blade or are you assuming? The antique I handled certainly was not thin. Del Tin. The Indian made/Chinese products are trash. no I just dont' really know about rapiers. but they are generally not wide like, is what I mean, and I didn't think of them as like square like a smallsword, but they could be pretty thick I don't really know. basically because of the way a rapier is so long, I am just assuming that in order to hold a decent edge and be so long and slender it needs to be high quality to be in any way useable. Some other sword shapes are a little more forgiving, because they are already more massive in any given place, so it's still possible to cut with them or play around with them, but rapiers are probably later century because to make one that doesn't break is already raising the quality bar. (just basically again my assumption). That is not to say the cheaper swords of other shapes are good swords and would be able to be considered good weapons, but it is to say that if you were to play around with them you will be a little more free to do so without particularly damaging the sword. anyway I used to live in the czech republic (just for a few months when I was a kid),,, what's your opinion on nielo swords? You seem to have some of the more midranged swords in your experience.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 13, 2020 6:30:07 GMT
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Jun 13, 2020 7:12:10 GMT
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