Thread: spanish steel.

i remember reading once that during the middle ages, the best swords were considered to be made of spanish steel (could be wrong, again im stating what i read)

so my questions is how are filarmonica razors compared to razors made in "solingen germany" or razors marked "sheffield steel"

Filarmonicas are right up there with the better sheffields and solingens. I don't know that they're as good as the best solingens necessarily, but they're quite good. Classic Shaving bought out the last stock of Filarmonicas and still has a few 7/8s, but they have a reputation of being harder to hone than the vintage Fillies. Still shave well though, and its possible that Filarmonica just didn't quite get the bevel set correctly on that last batch...

I may be wrong, but I think OSD is referring the sword steel as opposed to German sword steel or Japanese Sword Steel. At least this is where I have heard of a major difference.

The difference, at least in what I have read is truer in Rapiers than other swords. From what I have heard, Spanish swords were sharper, more flexible, and harder to break. German swords tended to be thicker, more like a saber.

yeah. actually im not gonna lie. i was watching robin hood prince of theives (kevin costner) and there was a scene where the sheriff of nottingham looked at a sword, said "spanish steel, the best for swords, hmmm" (or something like that) then stabbed the guy who made it.

so i looked it up and saw that spanish steel was preffered way back when.