it is interesting that they essentially became trendy. kinda like jeans... but a sword 🤘💀 my grandpa use to call my dad's jeans "farmer pants" and made fun of him for wearing them.

Great video, as always!

The 2nd one name and origin?

That mongol sabre is got some dimensions wrong about it

Im going to get a cut looking at this thing, the sharpness is incredible

If they would just leave off the industrial strength epoxy, a project like this would be so much easier. If it could be disassembled, a number of spray/bake finishes could be applied to the guard and pommel. These can be just as attractive and far more durable than what you've doing here.

I KNOW THAT POKISWORD!

Curved greatsword

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isnt is Atilla the hun's sword?

I'm thinking about buying one, but I am wondering, how tight does the wood core secure the sword into the scabbard ???

casually trims tree at the same time 😂

Excellent wrist-powered cuts and false-edge cuts! I like how you blued the hilt fittings on the Townguard sword. It’s what I would have recommended to LK Chen to have as a default on this model.

Great video, and a brave experiment. I would have not even tried. If I see any chemical that can oxidize gold, I leave it alone (I saw it as a warning on a pipe cleaning product and I put it back on the shelf). Same for stainless steel. You know that whatever oxidises that is not a run-of-the-mill chemical. It looks good though. Even if you wanted a better finish, it looks good, like an antiqued piece. And it's better than before. LK Chen should really offer these blued from the start. P.S. You know it is a knuckle bow, I know it is a knuckle bow, but every time you said quillon, I agreed with you. It shows that names are just there to help communicate, and since it was obvious to what you were referencing, my brain never challenged the name for a second.😅 I was too interested to see if the bluing was working.

oh yeah that turned out great 🤘💀 I love it when you accidentally prune the trees and don't even notice. lol that's a sharp blade for sure! nice cutting brother

That's quite the taper towards the point.

Awesome swords! Try keeping the edge straight when you cut, it should help with cleaner cuts

Grey is my favorite color, but I also love silver, this project has tempered my desire to blue a sword. Not saying I won't, just gonna make sure I allocate a lot of time!

I'm sure this was a frustrating project, still I appreciate you showing that it isn't always easy!😅

This was great. Thank you for sharing this. I have been long under the impression that Stainless could not be blued. I wonder if it is just a characteristic of Stainless that is causing the unevenness, etc. I agree a good quality brush would be good and, of course, dissassembly would make it easier. I have the Windlalss version which I bought as a "project" sword and I intend to blue that hilt too. So this was something directly related to my future plans. I look forward to you sharing any further work on the hilt that you do. Very curious as to the results on the Stainless. BTW, your sound was a bit low in the first part but not as bad as last time. In part two it was pretty good. Anyway, thanks for this. I found it very valuable. Cheers! See you again.

You know based off the live leak and war footage I've seen I actually think practicing how to consistently throw a good cut and thrust is more relevant to modern self defense oriented sword usage than HEMA. It's America day and all but a sword you can safely and cheaply regularly practice with is probably a better home defense weapon than a pistol or a shotgun, much less likely to impulsively kill yourself with a sword too.

2:16 In Cantonese, it is also called butterfly sabre "Wu dip dou" Bat jam do is the name of Wingtsun double sabre fencing.

Ch-ch-ch do-de-do-de-do.

Look at the flick of the wrist

wowww excellent cut

I totally agree that wrist-powered cuts should have similar rate of motion by the user as thrusts, and if you count the distance the tip travels, cuts are actually faster than thrusts. Now you can argue that you don't necessarily have to even move to execute a thrust, if your opponents is silly enough to run onto your point, while the velocity of a human moving onto an edge isn't likely to cause any significant cut whatsoever, and even making a small cut motion would be slower than keeping the point in a position to skewer your opponent.

I find it curious he said when no travelling they typically went unarmed vs england of the time where people were wrmed most of the time with several arms, a dagger, sword pistol ect.. but only heavily armed themselves for travel..... Which is curious... Maybe urban banditry was not so common and the ottoman urban areas safter than english urban areas or maybe it was considered bad for or rude to be armed in social settings..

Curious as to why you choose the LK Chen 1796 over the Windlass version? BTW, nice cutting.

The best sword "flick" I have seen dramatized is the duel scene in the movie Deluge. It is on the TOOOB; worth a look if you are interested in this stuff.

Wouldn't want a light tap on the wrist from either of those. Seems like an immediate need for a prosthetic hand.

Throwing maces was comon among the mongols, kipchaks and other turkic nomads, even to this day throwing maces are made and used by mongols in inner mongolia and they can be made to hunt with to kill game like gazelle, wolves ect

Nicely done! Remember that when you're cutting these kinds of targets, you're going to aim for the soft bits anyway because you don't want your weapon getting stuck in them as they ride by... That's a death sentence on a battlefield.

There are actually curved swords in the 7th century Arabia even before the existence of king Charlemagne and his famous sabre, there are notably curved swords in the middle east (such as the Islamic prophet Muhammad (pbuh) curved sword called 'Makhdum' ). You can check it out, if this is not too christianity-favored channel.

Not an account per se but on the bayou tapestry there is one panel that shows a mace flying through the air, presumably it was thrown.

Who knows what they meant? The Slavs and Hungarians used eastern style bows and sabers from horses for a long time. The Cossacks used them against the Prussians in the late 1700s, and Russian Bashkirs made it to Paris in 1814.

As an experienced marina worker I'd prefer a curved scimitar over a rapier any day for fighting aboard a ship. As for on horseback, I think the same thing is true until we get to the revolver era. After that we see thrust centric rapier like designs take over. At that point, armour no longer matters and lances are too annoying to use with pistols so we get a sword that is basically a lance.

Thank you for sharing this. Most interesting, but as you say not all that surprising either. What got my attention though is that the author specifically mentions travelling through a region of the Balkans he calls Schiavona. This is a fascinating tidbit of information as most of the researchers of the Schiavona sword only speculate on the source of the name. All agree that the design came with Slavic mercenaries hired by Venice, but only speculate as to the origin of the swords name. Speculating that it comes from Italian schiavo for slave or from a painting "Portrait of a Lady" (La Schiavona) by Tiziano Vecellio Titian. But the possibility that there was a regional identity called Schiavona right at the time that this sword gains popularity adds an other exciting possibility.

What's funny, it took the English (and Western Europe) about 1000 years to get to use the sabre in their militaries, something that central/eastern part of Europe kept doing from the start, only for at the end to put an estoc (rapier like) blade and generous cup hilt (again, rapier like) on their last cavalry sword (the 1908 / 1912 patterns). :)

Your sound is weak and muddy today to the point it is inaudible even at the max of my volume settings. Your sound is often quite weak but this was very bad. Anyway, see you again.

Iirc there is an early medieval or high medieval byzantine treaty talking about throwing maces

There was a recent test of high-level HEMA fencers of Polish sabre against rapier & dagger. Now, either the rapier was rather short or the sabre rather long, because the rapier only had a slight reach advantage. In any case, despite it being sabre alone versus rapier & dagger, the sabre still went 4 to 5. That's a small sample size but suggests sabre versus rapier may be closer than many people think. Luis Pacheco de Narváez discussed the question of sword (Spanish rapier) against alfanje (Turkish sabre). There's an English translation from Xosé Nieto available. Pacheco considered the rapier (which used some cuts in his system) superior to the sabre. However, this came in the context of the established framing of Christian Europeans positioning themselves against the Ottomans. Pacheco noted how Turks very often triumphed using the sabre alone, but that this was because of the ignorance of their European foes. He went on to say that a European with a rapier who knows what they're doing should handily beat a Turk with a sabre. This is exactly how Bertrandon de la Broquière described the question of European warfare against the Ottomans in the first half of the 15th century. He mentioned how the Ottomans frequently won, but stressed they it would be easy for Europe to defeat them if Europeans got their act together. This context doesn't discredit either of the authors, but it does suggest they were addressing matters of group honor & dignity as well as theorizing warfare or fencing. Tellingly both authors acknowledged that Ottoman armies & individuals regularly found victory.

Very interesting quotes. I would kill to see what these Turks looked like if they were described as “armories”. The author mentions how the rapier is better in an open civilian environment and the kilij is better when armored and mounted but I wonder what they would’ve thought about those situations separately: Like which one is preferred when armored and on foot and which one is preferred if unarmored and mounted. This is also the first mention I’ve heard of that talks about rapier on horseback. I’m reminded of a video Matt Easton made about later accounts when middle eastern and Indian warriors struggled against European swords due to them not being used to thrust from swords. Their swords were heavily cut-centric and so they were caught off guard by a thrust-centric blade. Thank you for the nice, short video. Do you know where I can find more info about those rapier manuals detailing how to deal with cutting weapons?

I just wish they can make it with a left-handed hilt

@6:05 😂 Sharper swords can cut better, who knew? Had me laughing for a minute 😂

I just wish it was an 1840 pattern.