User 116661 Check out Scholagladiatoria as well. Also an amazing channel!

RKcousins625 I looked it up. thanks for the suggestion, this is a new genre I've discovered and it's certainly a favourite of mine thanks.

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User 116661 I agree lindy beige is a good one he has amazing history storys and great anecdotes. plus hes a nerd like most of us he does hema, plays dnd and does ball room dancing

Ben Schneppensiefen woah there's so many of them this is such a cool thing that I've discovered thanks

I mean... The chips protruding from the edge looked pretty sharp to me...

***** I got a CS Shamshir. It is reasonably sharp and of good steel, but the fittings are atrocious. I had to add a cord wrapping to protect my hand. CS in general has quite good blades, is overpriced and has one of the worst quality controls. Kult of Athena does a second QC on CS, but they suck at it too indicating how many of the CS products are trash.

Well that's a statement about knives, not swords. Their swords are bad, we all know this, their a lot of their knives (politics aside) are actually objectively good. And to be impartial and fair, they dropped the "worlds sharpest" slogan a year or two ago.

Random Guy It's funny though since a messer is technically a knife but the one in the video is as dull as a butter-knife.

I've been told that their Japanese style blades are much better, likely because they have more competition at their general pricepoint in that market.

I think Skall already did something like that with their website and there was a lot of repercussions because of it.

Daniel Yakovlev I second that motion!

He doesn't need to. The rest of the internet can do that just as well. Lynn Thompson is not a popular dude. The CS brand is basically like the Tap Out of the knife community at this point.

Yeah, except for the part where half the knives I've ordered with them have totally uneven grind lines on the blade as well as lopsided edge geometry. The only thing they used to do well are their ultra premium (dare i say overpriced) swords and bowies, and their older rubber handled machetes. Otherwise, they're well below the quality of comparable Kershaw or even Boker knives in most cases. Lynn Thompson is an ass. Not to mention they're harassing a lot of my blacksmith friends for making San Mai laminate steel because of "trademark infringement" when they clearly only hold "San Mai III" as their trademarked San Mai. It's bully tactics. Not to mention most of my blacksmith friends probably can produce better steel, better grinds, and superior heat treatment.

Cold Steel was quality when I was a kid. Ever since then every thing I have gotten from them is of progressively poorer quality.

miniture weapons? ru playing warhammer?

Form vs function.

To each bis own! But can you explain what attracted you to it? It seemed so ugly to me. No finess whatsoever, not a detail, mat black steel like if it was a tactical wrapon make it, to me, loose all its apeal of a medieval weapon.

i like the CS messers blade shape, to bad they didn't make it out of some better steel. But the handle and guard in my opinion are appalling.

Lucky 7th Fair answer buddy. To be fair i myself really liked the mat black steel, not exactly a true reason behind it to be honest, im a huge fan of both single edged swords and two handed swords, that's why the messer is one the swords i find the most appealing, and the Nielo looks closer to a regular longsword in that regard (regular longswords are still really cool though!) and the more simplistic guard looks nicer to me since, while i admit fancy guards are pretty nice, they are not so much my thing. you are totally right by the way, to each their own

Nero Black no distill taper is a dead giveaway that little effort was put into actually making the blade balance decent though.

every youtuber has people who subscribe to them just to dislike their videos, just how it works

"I don't care if you hate my videos; if you watch them regularly, you're a fan." ;)

Salty cold steel fans

Giovani Rodriguez-Ceja WELL was more likes, so can't judge THE haters

More people will blindly like a video before watching than blindly dislike, so don't worry about it.

Exactly, that's the problem.

TheFilthyCasual When paper cuts better than a sword 😑

Did you back Little devil inside? I see a profile that looks strikingly similar here on KZfaq and on Kickstarter.

John Trachsel Their messer is garbage, shitty steel they used

Shitpost Bot The steel used is generally good, Cold Steel just can’t get the heat treat right.

shocking right?

i think everyone got the *point* of it already.

What country is he from? I thought he's German judging by the accent, but he sure didn't pronounce "Kriegsmesser" ( 0:22 ) the German way (he used the English "r").

Jürgen Sven Fuchs he lives on Canada. Not sure if that's where he originally came from

He was German, then moved to Norway, then to Canada. Pretty easy to get your accent sounding a bit atypical when you move around that much.

I’ll watch it proper later

damn...

your youtube is better than mine

Your tube-fu is strong

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The MAA Arming Sword was very good for me and uses high quality 1090 high carbon steel as advertised. But perhaps its good because they don't offer a polished model. Which is fine by me because I disassembled mine, removed the bluing with white vinegar and salt, then polished the parts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@shockwave6213 no it uses 1055

They are blunt, for reenactment. Not what I'm looking for.

I'm guessing you missed this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/armKmpp3tcfOlJ8.html

Not missed, but forgot about it. Awesome sword that Norman blade. Thank you.

Powerknolle Toffel nice avatar

Blazin'Blades it who'd I got both of the swords the Albion and CS none of the two Makers put enough beef behind the edge so the damage would be substantial if you're hitting hardened steel

company xxx ok It's always a game of flex vs hardness in carbon steel. I'm just saying that the Albion sword Skall is referring to would probably be damaged substantially on an edge on edge Perry 😩 But no one in his right mind would risk ruining a $1,700 sword...

Very true

Albions swords are based on historical pieces, as in swords from the respective time period, and Albions steel is superior to most of the medieval counterparts... And the medieval swords made it through thousands of years of abuse, and are still intact. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the Albions will be fine. I own three and they can take a lot of abuse without any issues. The only problem Albions have, is that they're not sharp enough, if you ask me.

Bru741iX don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say Albion swords are bad or anything in that regard. I know personally I'm very anal when it comes to the sharpness of my swords and knives I know CS and Albion messrs have only one thing in common and that there's is not a whole lot of Steel behind a convex edge right from the factory. which makes is it relatively easy to sharpen with a strap and some compound ,my CS messer came pretty doll but it only took a few minutes to get that beautiful hair pop convex edge on the blade and my Albion Messer didn't need much work at all to get that convex edge to hair pop sharp. Anyone with the right mind would say Alden would win it's pretty obvious better Steel more attention to Fitz and finish better balance handling weight distribution historical accuracy it's pretty much like comparing a pinto to a Ferrari when it comes down to it but that all comes with a price tag. from my own experience I know when there's just not a whole lot of Steel behind that edge backing it up that the damage could be substantial especially with something like edge on edge contact. but you are right I'll put my money on Albion also. sorry for the rambling just enjoy the subject:)