Thread: yes but will it shave

Originally Posted by JMS

You could hide it in your pants...who knows? you might make some new friends.

Where did you think the ye old "Be that a broadsworde in thy breeches, or be you just happie to see me" -gimmick comes from? .

Much luck was also had with a morningstar with two weights.

Whenever I see someone waving a sword around I always think of Indiana Jones.

Originally Posted by Bruno

That was interesting, certainly. Though I have to say the guy with the tie followed through way too much in a way that put him off balance completely. The guy in black was much more controlled.

And for home defense I wouldn't use it either, simply because in my house (like most European houses) there is not enough room to swing a broadsword.

Still, when judged by itself, it's an impressive weapon.

The guy with the tie is the company president Lynn Thompson. He should leave the demo's to other people but I think he enjoys them too much to do that.

As for will it shave? Nope

It won't even cleanly cut carboard most likely. Forget about hairs.

That big hunk of metal is....well...a big hunk of metal. Not much more really. I doubt you'd even find it easy to cut yourself on it. Most swords are only hardened in the 40's on the Rockwell scale. While most knives are hardened in the 55-60's and most razors even higher.

Good luck getting that thing to shave.

I'm sure it's a usefull weapon or could be. But then any slab of steel that size would be no matter if it was sharp or not.

Originally Posted by welshwizard

Whenever I see someone waving a sword around I always think of Indiana Jones.

That is EXACTLY what I was going to say when he talked about the advantage in a fight.


Other than the display value of sword collecting, is there any other side to it that a sword noob like myself doesn't know about? Are there chopping events or something? He keeps referencing the combat worth of this sword, but it seems he is about 400 years too late in his sales pitches.

This is the cutting power I look for in my home defense choices:

A sword can be just almost as sharp as a razor. the difference is the bevel angle, the meat behind the edge.

watching some of the video....I don't think I would stand still enough for these guys to land a blow.

Originally Posted by Timedwards

That is EXACTLY what I was going to say when he talked about the advantage in a fight.


Other than the display value of sword collecting, is there any other side to it that a sword noob like myself doesn't know about? Are there chopping events or something? He keeps referencing the combat worth of this sword, but it seems he is about 400 years too late in his sales pitches.

This is the cutting power I look for in my home defense choices:

there are quite a few people involved in western martial arts, drawing upon several contemporary sources- instrustional in sword fighting, grappling etc etc. A bit more involved than Renn faire stuff.

Eatern martial arts as well is a bit more of a continious tradition. Indian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese all have martial sword tradition.

Originally Posted by Timedwards

That is EXACTLY what I was going to say when he talked about the advantage in a fight.


Other than the display value of sword collecting, is there any other side to it that a sword noob like myself doesn't know about? Are there chopping events or something? He keeps referencing the combat worth of this sword, but it seems he is about 400 years too late in his sales pitches.

This is the cutting power I look for in my home defense choices:

here's some non decorative work: YouTube - Guy Windsor & Bill Grandy longsword fencing - Commentary (WMAW 2009)