Additionally, light swords cut people very well. You do not need a ten pound sword to cut someone in half. For example, even the largest sword in our catalogue, the 15th Century Two Hander, which is almost 60" long weighs only six pounds and is fast and agile in the hand.
In fact, most longswords weigh between 2. Our English Longsword, weighs 2. Historical swords were not made to accomplish the tasks that many YouTube audiences seem to desire. In order for a sword to cut down a tree it must have a relatively thick cross section to prevent it being destroyed by the abuse.
While some types of steel and some degrees of tempering might be more or less resistant to this use, any sword that will stand up to repeatedly hacking trees, cinder blocks, or any other hard object will necessarily be either too heavy to function as a good fighting weapon, or it will have too little distal taper to move well in the hand as is necessary for historical forms of combat.
To put this argument into more accessible terms, you wouldn't say that the criteria for a rifle to be a good gun was that you could hammer nails into the wall with it.
Nor would you test the quality of a Ferrari by trying to knock down a large tree with it. Tools need to be judged on how they accomplish the tasks for which they are designed. What we have consistently striven to do over the past three decades is to craft swords and other weapons that excel at the historical uses for which they were intended. When people ask us if our swords are 'battle-ready' this is what we explain.
These are the kind of blades used in Medieval Renaissance fairs and shows for fencing and simulated battles. Pretty and shiny stainless steel blades mostly for decorative or display are NOT meant for jousting, but high-carbon spring steel is the strongest material used in blade manufacturing and that is why it is the material of choice for battle ready swords, the way they were made in the olden days.
We offer a good selection of historically accurate functional blades, from Roman to Viking, Medieval to Renaissance, ranging from claymores, to crusaders, to Knight's Templars.
To hold one of these fully functional full-tang blades is to shake hands with a knight; to feel what he felt; to be a part of history. They look like the originals, feel like the originals, flex and balance like the originals. If you are an avid collector, you got to experience one of these fine blades. Regardless of the quality of the weapon, edge to edge sword fighting can result in nicks or scratches to both blades after extreme use. Just use some common sense. There are so many people out there with the misconception of what battle-ready really means.
In simple words, a battle ready sword is forged in the same manner as they were in history, and these can be used as a real weapon, as well as a decorative display piece.
However, even if a sword is called battle-ready, it does not mean that it can take the abuse one want to dish out on it! Just be careful there mate! With so many online stores and merchants, there is no knowing if what you are buying is a true battle ready sword or just a spoof.
If you do not understand few of these matters, you will not be able to differentiate the functional swords from a spoof. You must have seen those really shiny and gleaming swords online, those are usually made from stainless steel. But be warned, anything made from stainless steel is not a real sword, but just a decorative one. Even if a stainless steel sword takes less maintenance, they are fragile and break easily. Hence, not strong enough to take the harsh treatment the swords used to take in the middle ages.
Here is the deal, real swords are made from Carbon Steel. The goal of heat treating is to achieve a balance between toughness and hardness. Too soft, and your sword gets cut in two. Too hard and the sword snaps in half! High numbers indicate a harder material. In general, European style swords should have a HRC of Differentially tempered Japanese swords meaning the cutting edge is harder than the back of the sword should have an edge of HRC and a back of HRC Some businesses or websites boast about the quality of the steel but don't mention how or if the sword was heat treated.
It's practices like this that makes it all the more important to buy your battle ready sword from reputable dealers made by well known and respected manufacturers that have a solid reputation for using good quality steel and doing a thorough heat treatment.
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