Maybe in terms of steel quality, but as far a balance, flexion, fit and finish? More goes into that than you realize. You're talking about crafters making weapons of war for the time period, vs now where we are not copying examples, but going away from them on purpose.

Modern steel is amazing compared to the impure trash they had. We can litteraly have 99% pure and control the temper to a degeree or half degree. If someone thinks the blade FINISH can over come that, they are an ignorant fool.

@@xxxlonewolf49 you do know how they actually make purer iron right? Basically heat it up till liquid and other metals are burned off then clean off the slag on top , they may have not done things like adding chromium to make stainless . While they didn’t know about molecular structures they saw the properties it had after certain ratios of material. I would argue that last point but i have no clue what your trying to say with it

@@geoshark12 are you trying to say OLDer iron & steel was more pure then than today? If so, you are very confused & you did not read what I wrote.

@@geoshark12 Making pure iron is not like making pure steel. The latter is more difficult, which is why it took thousands of years for mankind to be able to smith steel on a regular basis.

I was not expecting to picture Goblin Piss in my head when I started reading this comment, wHEEZe

The way you said "Krieg's Messer" makes it sound like it's a Messer from Krieg, but we all know the Guardsmen from Krieg use shovels not swords xD

@@Guderian2 Correct.

Goblin piss tastes like water... ...from Jersey.

He passed the third test. Only goblins like the taste of their own piss. (Goblin Slayer Abridged reference)

I watched Matt Easton's (Scholagladatoria) review and he was very complimentary of it. It's on my list of swords to buy when funds become available.

Windlass have wobbly saggy swords, horrible edge alignment

@@ColossalSwordFormAndTechnique apparently some of their new products are quite good. I'm glad to see some of the traditional mass manufacturers improving their products.

@@ColossalSwordFormAndTechnique , That might be the case with many of their swords, and it's probably the case with most of Cold Steel's swords as well. However, Windlass's most recent 1796 replica, as well as the Medieval swords that they collaborated on with Matt Easton, represent a ground-breaking departure in terms of quality for mass-produced swords. For these swords I'm talking about, they actually got access to the original antiques to take measurements. In the case of the 1796, they actually bought an original directly from Matt, and that's what they are now basing their model on. Trust me, just one month ago, you would NOT have heard me promoting Windlass either!😂

​@@andreweden9405 I'll have to look into them again, I've not bought a new sword in six years. I'm chronically ill now, and can barely walk, so I have a hard time justifying a sword purchase when I can't use them. My HEMA-girl days, much to my very deep heart break, are probably over. But overall, I've had mostly good to say about windlass. The beefiness of some of their grips and the wood they use under the leather and wraps is often ... creaky, but I've never had edge alignment issues with the ones I've chosen (sorry to swordcollector, sincerely) They are indeed a bit whippy though on some of their models, but I've found that more on certain rapiers and certain thinner Renaissance weapons. Most of the ones based on historical pieces are quite good. I've not had good luck with Cold Steel's SWORDS yet, their knives, spears, and tomahawks have been great... but the swords, while beefy and can take a beating, are too heavy for their Oakshotte typology in the older ones. I'm dearly hoping that's changing, that messer looks lovely. Pleasure to meet you Andrew, everyone. Albion is godly, but the prices are ungodly so lol, but deserved. Best wishes everyone!

sadly you cannot end a man rightly with this blade :(

@@SassyTesla That's true! Make it with a screw-on pommel!

Id like to see Skall do a side-by-side comparison with his Albion, because this looks like a near 100% copy.

@Derek Stack if i remember correctly, Skall did review exactly this Kriegsmesser before. 😉

It saddens me to see how badly this comment aged.

If they can't list it then where is it mentioned that it's made from 1561?

@@senpaichiyochi9884 There are other sites that sell swords, you know. And Cold Steel has a website.

@@Bacteriophagebs that's not what I asked though

@@senpaichiyochi9884 Are...are you actually that dense, or are you just screwing with me?

@@senpaichiyochi9884 Actually, it is. Though what you meant was probably "where is it listed _on their site_ that it is made from 1561".

what other brand would you recommend ?

2^2 what other stuff do you recommended

@@turkicsayajin2274 depends on the price range and topic.

@@l0sts0ul89 in similar price range to cold steel I would choose ronin katana, Kingston, hanwei-tinker, and there's some marginally more expensive things from del tin or Darksword that would be worth trying. Or LK chen. Balaur is new and seems promising, I think LK chen makes them

@@dorianshepard2841 I'm not sure about Del Tin, maybe the rest can be a good alternative.

it’s not a sword but i’ve wanted a baseball bat for autodefense because swords don’t give much chance to survive to an unarmored foe and i don’t want to be charged with murder so i was looking into baseball bats but steel one bends and wooden ones break and most of them are pretty short for my liking Luckily i just found the cold steel brooklyn whopper ! It’s exactly what i was looking for its long enough and unbreakable ! You can even shoot the damn thing !

I think most (if not all) of the flack comes from people selling overpriced nonsense for other companies. Lynn Thompson is a true believer, and his belief is that we should all be able to have super badass blades that last forever.

@@turkicsayajin2274 Baseball bats are still very much deadly force instruments. Of course, you do you, but just by virtue of using a baseball bat will not get you off the hook for prosecution if you’re not using it for home defense.

@@hithere4719 Sadly Lynn has sold the company. I think he still works with them in some capacity, but quality issues have already started cropping up. Some of their new products break really easily. I personally have bought this Kriegsmesser and mine came with a crack in the blade. Another guy reports that the plastic has changed on their trainers and is now brittle (see linked). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKyjq5t2xr_IpKs.html

@@finalbossd yes i know but at least i can aim for body parts without risking severe bleed on the first hit. If swing a saber on a aggressor arms most of the time he’ll die from bleed imo

@@apsoypike1956 I get it the Nerd part of me also went to CS Lewis the first time I saw Cold Steel abbreviated that way.

I own Cold Steel knives (hunting, kukri, tanto even), machetes, folders and a poor man's cutlass. Each blade came absurdly sharp. Once, a hunting cooking knife came when I talked with my friend, and he was interested, so he tried to check the sharpness of it. He pulled his finger along the cutting edge and said: - It's dull... Ahh! - he cut his finger, not deep. The edge was so perfect he could not tell he already went with it through his skin. Razor - the closest thing that comes to my mind. I had maybe less than ten similar cases with a person I showed a knife, ending up with a cut.

Fully possible Ionized steel is used in surgeries to easily tell the difference between similar drills and implants

@@johnchaffins3879 Good to know, thanks.

Seen guys using laser diodes to colour steel. Black, blue, red seem to dominate. How to do green?

@@victoriazero8869 Just so

I don't know about green, but you can definitely add a colored hue to steel's reflection

it’s not a sword but i’ve wanted a baseball bat for autodefense because swords don’t give much chance to survive to an unarmored foe and i don’t want to be charged with murder so i was looking into baseball bats but steel one bends and wooden ones break and most of them are pretty short for my liking Luckily i just found the cold steel brooklyn whopper ! It’s exactly what i was looking for its long enough and unbreakable ! You can even shoot the damn thing !

@@turkicsayajin2274 A baseball bat is the sword of the urban knight.

@@GentlemenMonkey the horse would be the bike ? 😆

@@turkicsayajin2274 If you can mount a charge on it, it counts.

@@GentlemenMonkey It's just a better stick.

you can sell more than two kidneys, harder to get after the first two though

Just need to have a heron engraved on the blade as well.

@@skiveman Lan's sword, while power wrought, was unmarked.

@@dorvinion That is true. I completely forgot about that and kinda confused it with Rands sword he got from his father in EotW. Still, it would look pretty epic. *edit* And again, got shit confused in my head as his fathers sword had a heron carved in it's hilt and the scabbard if I can even remember anything at all accurate. I'm guessing a re-read of WoT is needed.

@@skiveman Hilt and blade. Probably scabbard too. Rand did have to work to hide the herons in caemlyn

@@dorvinion Yeah, I knew the hilt because it was the first mark in the prophecies. I also thought of the scabbard because yes, he did have to cover it with the Queens colours while in Caemlyn. The blade though? I really need to reread the whole series again as a lot of smaller details are escaping me these days. Not that I need to tell the folks of this channel, but those books were magnificently detailed.

it’s not a sword but i’ve wanted a baseball bat for autodefense because swords don’t give much chance to survive to an unarmored foe and i don’t want to be charged with murder so i was looking into baseball bats but steel one bends and wooden ones break and most of them are pretty short for my liking Luckily i just found the cold steel brooklyn whopper ! It’s exactly what i was looking for its long enough and unbreakable ! You can even shoot the damn thing !

@@turkicsayajin2274 Charged with murder in your own home? I'm guessing you don't live in america

And if you shape it you can make it look pretty. Well... prettier.

or you could use a chisel to wedge in a few leather off-cuts. I've hammered a few knifes out of scrap steel and that always did the job.

@@JohnSmith-NZ Silicone sealant might be cheaper & easier. Like a grey bathroom.

@@republicjohn999 Depends on how good your silicon is I guess. I've always found leather to be a bit more "authentic", and with a few torn working gloves around it's cheap enough

or find a bodyman, steel shaper and see if he thinks he can shrink the hole, like he would shrink a body panel to stop "oil canning".

good luck getting it its sold out everywhere

@@davidmiscarriage5579 Unfortunately so. It's alright, I don't have the money for it rn anyways 😅

@@mysite1012 same but still 380 for a sword like this is a steel (ha-ha no pun intended)

@@REALdavidmiscarriage Lol

He butchered "Nagel" and "Langes Messer", though. It was painful to listen to, as he made not the slightest effort to pronounce it correctly. Skallagrim does it better.

I 100% agree.

He was articulate when talking about AI art, don't act as if having a channel about medieval content precludes him from having educated and well-presented opinions on other topics.

@@noirescribbles7788 No one is acting like such. It's simply the way he formed his opinion on the AI topic while it was well presented, many people including myself disagreed with him on a lot of his points.

@@biharimark5506 Yes they are, reading the few toxic comments on this video and many more on the previous one makes it painfully clear that there are way too many people who genuinely believe in such logical fallacies. but that's just the KZfaq side, hundreds of twitter weirdos also attacked him for allegedly being a thief, a liar and a "mediocre" artist who seeks to bring attention to his own art by making "controversial" AI art videos.

@@noirescribbles7788 While I do agree that many people seem to be way too outraged by his words, a good amount of people's concern with it is genuinely justified. I seen Shad's artwork and while I do think he's pretty talented, when he started using ai to fill things out after the lineart, a lots of his ideas and details on the character were replaced, hell, even the poses were different here and there. I personally don't see the appeal of it and find it immoral of using a wide database of thousands of people's artwork to "improve" your art, when all it truly does is it replaces 80% of your artwork with other people's art. The most I could think of is using the AI imagine as a reference photo for your art, but that's it.

no

@@snepping1885 :c

@@UXMetalVTuber I'm just being realistic u know, the Albion Knecht deals holy damage by now with the amount of people who revere it

@@snepping1885 Ok, but since you can get like 4 of these for the price of one Albion, I think it actually wins on numbers.

No way, if both equally skilled the Albion sword beats this all day. there is just no comparison to quality. Having the opportunity to wield both at a sword show it's night and day. Cold steel is a nice sword but the Albion is perfection.

No you're not. I bought one specifically for that reason and had a few customizations made so that I could have my own wheel of time heron marked blade.

I had an old do it yourself encylopedia (circa 1950s) It had a crossbow project that used car leaf springs for the bow. It had a chart for spring thickness and width for pull weight. It went from something like 60 pounds up to 438 pound pull. (I remember that one, and there were plans for the cocking lever too)

@@frosty3693 Kids in the 50s

im pretty sure its a knife and not a sword like the name itself implies

@@thanquolrattenherz9665 It's a sword in the design of a knife, as any bladed weapon of its type is generally understood to be a type of sword.

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Their knives are top notch besides a few models that always seemed more for show. Their swords. Honestly just look elsewhere besides a very select few. However Their sword machete line is absolutely amazing for backyard cutting and some actual use. I think it's a Saber or cutlass deaign my buddy has but thing is a beast.

Same here I have daily carried a Cold Steel Recon 1 Tanto folder for nearly 15-ish years and its held up very well and is one reason why I refuse to own a folding knife that doesn't have either a lockback or locking pin type blade lock.

@@Hybris51129same. I see zero reason not to have a lockback folder. Under $50 there is no way that a liner lock is going to compete with the legendary tri-ad lock.

From the '80s to the 2000s, Cold Steel had the best knife steel in the world (at the time), what they called Carbon V, which was a formula from the '50s that was only ever licensed to Case and Cold Steel. It was basically 1095 with trace elements that made it really springy without losing edge-holding. Then they lost the license (no one holds it now) and went through a period where none of their knives were much good except the really pricey San Mai III ones. It was during that time they started cranking out long blades in 1050 steel. All their machetes and swords are 1050. They cut their machetes from sheets of the stuff, slap on a black coating, glue on a handle, grind an edge, and sell 'em cheap. They're decent. Their swords, though, have always been crowbars with nary a distil taper to be found, made of cheap steel but sold at mid-quality prices, hence the bad rep. They recently started making knives in CPM-3V, which is the toughest blade steel on the market, so they're trying to go back to making high-end knives at mid-range prices. I'm hoping that this kreigsmesser is an indication that they've started trying to make decent swords, too. They used 1561 steel for it, which is exceedingly rare in swords, but it's basically a slightly better 1060, so it's a solid step up from the 1050 they've been using, and miracle of miracles, they put a distil taper on it!

except GSM Outdoors bought cold steel not a long time ago( fired demko and thompson

To be fair, this is just a giant knife so your impression still holds true lol.

it’s not a sword but i’ve wanted a baseball bat for autodefense because swords don’t give much chance to survive to an unarmored foe and i don’t want to be charged with murder so i was looking into baseball bats but steel one bends and wooden ones break and most of them are pretty short for my liking Luckily i just found the cold steel brooklyn whopper ! It’s exactly what i was looking for its long enough and unbreakable ! You can even shoot the damn thing !

Middle eastern ones are not to be sneered at either. I just wish we had surviving treatises for them as we do European ones.

thats what i was thinking

These swords were used in central europe in XV century. People living in cities were getting richer and richer and could afford long sword, thus local lords passed the law of banning usage of such noble swords for people without noble heritage. Then garman blacksmiths came up with the idea to elongate knives to size of a swords. Messer means knife. This weapon was used by lower class citizans in XV century central europe P.S might be not correct as below maslav_ has wriiten alternative, more probable version

@@ThePawcios Ooooooh, interesting. Correct me if I'm wrong, but 15th century was part of the renaissance era, right? So this could be considered as one of early sword style transitions in medieval Europe. Again, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no historical expert.

@@KamalAdnanTheFirst this type of sword was used from XIV to XVI century. But as XV yes it was renaissance. What do you mean early sword transitions? It always happened with weapons, its constant evolution. Not single transition ;)

@@ThePawcios I believe that's a myth, as there is no historical evidence for widespread laws banning sword use. I think a more likely explanation is knife makers wanting to exploit the increased demand for weapons but being prohibited by guild laws from making traditional swords (the tang construction being a differing factor).

@@ThePawcios Truuuueee 👌

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@@ThePawcios no, no, no, no. Want to try that again? This time without the made up information.

@@baconghoti Please correct me then :D

@@ThePawcios you know you already have been.

@@baconghoti Well, I wrote that comment earlier :P

Cool story weeb

@@rogermurtaugh4766 ok blind hater.

Knives not swords

@@Haywire-mi5fq Then we agree to disagree. Many of their swords have proven to be functional and well built. Perfect? No. But you got what you paid for in my opinion.

they are usually big clubs of steel, not that refined and not really anything near battle ready as far as weight and balance.

My regularly scheduled content is damage control? Also, more AI videos coming out.

@@JK96Jt Thank you for explaining.