I have a bunch of your stuff, all excellent. Been drooling over your falcion blades for a while now, but I'm skint. This doesn't help, you git!

Falchion is an enlarged stright razor in on a handle. Not a cleaver as most mistakenly think or claim.

i think the square tip falchion would be even better against gambeson especially when hitting with that top courner, i want to see it tested but no one has one

My question is - could this 960lbs crossbow penetrate a plate armor?

At what point did the Falchion become a Machete? (Or was it the other way around)

Would it be possible to replicate a horn composite prod with modern fiber materials that look and behaves exactly like the original? Seems to me it wouldnt be too difficult or expensive cause as it stands now Andreas Bichlers horn composite crossbows are blowing Tods steel crossbows out of the water

So... This film basically concluded that Falchions are swords and do what swords do. Hrm. Tod, can we potentially get a film that focuses more on why Falchions are? Like, it's simpler and easier to produce a more conventional sword shape with an even taper and without needing to flare out that Falchion shape. What is gained with the Falchion shape? What is lost? Why would someone carry a Falchion as opposed to an arming sword?

The Ystoria Mongalorum by Giovanni da Pian del Carpine mentions quenching arrow heads in saltwater to harden them, might be worth looking into.

Laymans thought; could it have been used to extract sword after impaling or being impaled?

regarding the comment about mail's purpose @8:52 "its not so good against piercing things like arrows and spears, but swords, axes that's what its made for". Mail appears to work fine against piercing weapons as is attested to in both historical sources and in modern testing with accurately made mail. KZfaqr Airnt's video "Lance versus Armour" showed that well made mail is capable of stopping a lance from a charging horse so it seems quite likely the same armour would be capable of resiting a one handed spear thrust or an arrow from the lower poundage bows found in most periods. As is often said on this channel, our ancestors were not stupid and piercing weapons (spears, arrows and javelins) made up the vast majority of the threats mail would need to stop. For many centuries mail was the preferred choice for developed European armies, even for high status individuals, despite the availability of other metal armour types such as breastplates, scale or segmented plate armour. So it does seem that our ancestors felt mail worked against piercing weapons.

ITS REAL SUKUNA!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!

I was always wondering about them. Thanks for the demo!

Falchions have such a thin, tapered blade. Comparing them to an axe because of the flare at the end of the blade is a bit reductive, if nothing else. By that logic, longswords are a spear with a sword handle.

looks like a good pirate weapon

The cleaver certainly looks almost identical to some machetes that i've seen(just completely different grip with no pommel and no guard, and less tapering blade). Actually, like some i've USED even. "be an idiot if you tried"... *lol*

Can you try to defeat armor by ottoman bow ?

That is a wodden recurve bow..? Like and Suscribe 😄 Pd: It's magnificent

Tod, why did u pull a football goal out of the trash and drag it home?

How come no one has ever fixed the lever on the crossbow? Would've increased firing rate.But hey I don't know squat about all this. Just seems to me to be practical

Thats just a machete THATS JUST AN OLD MACHETE-

Yeah I’ve chopped off lots of heads limbs with the different Falchions. Just slices through enemies on their soft spots. I use this historic info in Blade and Sorcery VR. It’s incredibly accurate and the tech is only getting better.

I love this dudes verbiage and commentary. Immediately subscribed

Great demo and info on falchions. Not a sword you see or hear much about, even in fantasy fiction or games. I've heard they were larger versions of scimitars, which they sort of are, but clearly a sword of their own. Isn't the curve of the blade supposed to add to the gash when it cuts with a follow through? I've heard that's what makes katanas, sabres and scimitars as deadly as they were. Thanks for sharing. Love your channel!

My grandfather used to open cans with his bayonet so why not multi function? BUT he never said about knocking in tent pegs with the butt of his rifle ever though it would work and save an extra tool to carry.

Arsenic n that mix is quite ingenious. It reacts quite violently with oxidizers, meaning it can explode and splatter that burning mass. The fumes are toxic with dissiness, vomitting and sheiting youself almost instantly once it reaches mouth and lungs. And the smoke should turn thick yellowish, making it impossivle to see. All this reminds me of WWI mustard gas. Medieval warfare really was ugly.

the drawback with falchions is that they cant spawn with 4 sockets, making it impossible to make a spirit. but they're cool lookig

Blaize de Montluc wrote that men at arms circa 1520 used to carry curtilaces (coutelas) to cut arms of maille and to cleave (destrancher) morions (Blaize de Montluc was an archer in the Ordinance Companies, as well as serving as a man at arms for a short time during that period). Rarely does he exaggerate, and wrote that he never saw such cuts (before) in his life (ie, they were surprising to him). Joachim Meyer likewise describes "hewing" with the blade of the "sabel" (depicted as the typical long knife/curtilace of the period) against an armored opponent, particularly at the hands (as well as thrusts, obviously). He says the sabel should be strong and good at cutting, but *explicitly* not too heavy.

Thanks for the fascinating video! If you intend to do more tests, always wondered what striking with the back edge or clip point would do to mail

I can’t help wondering - instead of increasing range, was the rope supposed to be wrapped a few times AROUND the shaft so as to create a spin to stabilise and preserve the direction of the javelin? Of course the fletching would need to be rearranged a bit to enable the spin. Especially if the wielder is throwing from the observation deck of a ship (which is constantly wobbling/rocking) down to enemies below, stability might be a more important consideration than range.

That was amazing! Thank you!

Another advantage to cocking by reversing the bow is that the bow is facing away from you when you reach full cock, but with all of you - including your fingers, out of harm's way - so you don't get injured by a goat's foot shaped projectile if the nut doesn't lock properly.

awesome

I have found that most all people's whom descend from the indo-europeans have some type of double or back edged weapon that can range in size from small dagger all the way up to short sword. Scottish have the Dirk, Irish the Skean, Persians have the Qame, Russians the Kindjal etc. Which I have a theory that they all have some connection to the Scythian Acenakes. It will still require a LOT of research to prove but i think it has merit.

Would love to see you test the ability of various weapons (daggers, swords, spears) to thrust through maille/gaps in plate armor, both with a ballistic thrust, and trying to push the weapon through the gap with your weight on it. Fencing treatises describe techniques like halfswording and thrusting into gaps for overcoming armor, but I want to know how hard it really is to hurt the guy inside.

I have a 24" machete with a very deep cross section at the "sweet spot" on the blade. It really looks a bit like the cleaver falchion but doesn't have the balanced weight and the thicker spine. That machete is a chopping beast though. I sunk it about 2 1/2" (5-6cm) into a live aspen tree we were going to cut down. It is top heavy and only good for cutting heavier branches or brush because of the over swing.

It's obvious Tod takes all precautions for safety and responsibility. Even so, a funny thought occurred to me: I wonder how nervous Tod's neighbors are? Also, at 18:19 - I name that target "Meathead!"

9:50 is funny on so many levels. Tod needs a disclaimer in his bio: yes, I work on movies, but I am not responsible for the cutting through armour scenes. 😄 And 2:07 in the news: sword maker cast aside his creation, "today it's not its day". 😂

Thank you Tod

Hi Tod from Hungary! I love yr videos keep it up! I was happy to see how much shapness and width counts in cutting. Unfortunately we can't measure sharpness objectively, not even with those press measuring sharpness scales. But I this could be the biggining of a new series that shows how much each parameter counts (width- sharpness, thickness-weight- balance, balance-length- manuvering, hilt-passive/active defence, material (iron types)-making (e. g. showing yr blacksmith place), material (stone, wood- I mean that compressed 'steel wood' that Skallagrim spoke about, bronze) affects on making and parameters, maintenance hardness/cost by parameters). Some could be in collaboration with Matt Easton. And a 'sum up' vid. What do you think?

Nice touch with the pork at the end. Thank you. :)

I hope you had a nice pork barbeque or caserolle aftewards

I kinda felt that the blade on plate test should have involved gloves and safety glasses, etc, and then I actually watched it and yeah, nah. Not merely 'ineffective' but *completely useless*. Not even any danger of little chips of metal or sparks flying anywhere, just a pointless thing to try (pun intended?). Armour always wins against physics, and then chemistry comes along and completely changes the game.

Not going to sell those swords at a discount are you?🙏

Thanks for doing the pork cut at the end. Yes we all did want to see that. But now I'm hungry. Love your work. I wonder then why someone would choose a falchion over a sword? Is the falchion cheaper/faster to produce?

As much as I absolutely love Lord of the Rings, after seeing the experiments on this channel, I can't help but burst into laughter when I see arrows and spears going straight through plate armor like butter. Pretty sure Gondor makes their plate armor out of wax

1:15 I disagree, they can be brutally heavy. Chronicles of the Dead is a pretty good album.

Nerd thingo.. In my D&D Campaign I made Crossbows into the non metal eastern European variety. Closer to regular short bows mounted on a crossbow shaft. With enough Strength you can hand load them. I know Short bows where less of a Thing in Eastern Europ as laminating glues and wood/Grass types didn't really allow for it, especially not for fielding armies with such materials.

Cool video, thank you sir! Amazing how well it cuts a gamberson after being sharpened.

I've always been curious as to why modern clip-point falchions based on the Thorpe are nearly always 71/72cm in the blade, when the original was a good 10cm longer. Thankfully the idea that falchions were heavy choppers is dying off, but that they were always shorter blades seems fixed in people's minds.

Now I'm hungry.