Love your content Sir, and you’ve converted me to 17-18th century Sabre style as my focus for sword style and learning. I also Appreciate quite much your efforts in providing Roworths workbook and video content. I so wish such focus of academic school existed in my area of Los Angeles. Frankly even a dedicated sparring partner in the area would be much appreciated. You are a fine teacher Sir in any case.
Perfect! I just ordered one of their Sideswords, and as I don’t have a proper pair of gloves yet I’m looking forward to *not* chewing my hands up using it 😝 The new blade colour also looks really nice - I’m a big fan of it
I really like the cord grips, its a little rough but it stays in the hand, very reassuring.. I have a little briquet repro sabre, it's blunt, short and heavy for it's size. I really like it for solo practice in the house but I find myself slipping all over the brass grip unless I put some gloves on.
Great! I have an order with one of these pending. The infantry sabre moves fast enough so with the extra steel on the guard it's going to feel like the point of balance is somewhere up by my elbow...
Yes they do. The 1796 infantry model in this video was the first production model they ever made. Since then they have added half a centimetre to the grip which has made it large enough for all heavy gloves. I haven't tested the 1803 in the same way, it may not work with them as the slot hilt limits glove thumb space.
I have one of black fencers longswords and have found the handle to be a bit of a problem. As u said the handle is really quite abraisive, is there any way to speed up the waring in phase, ive gone to the effort of making a leather cover for it because they were that uncomfortable on bare skin. Any help would be awesome!
It could work if you used some of the very tough ABS materials. Though most printers would only be capable of hilt compononents and not blades. They are also typically very light. Good for grips certainly, but probably not for anything else.
To replicate the original as I showed, which was designed to be both beautiful and functional. Any changes by BF were simplifications for durability, like around where the GR cypher letters are on the original.
Just as Konstantin K said, yes they were, and there were even specific techniques to make advantage of the curve in thrusting. It is a myth put forward by sword collectors in the late 19th and 20th century that these sorts of blades could not thrust and thatt the users did not thrust with them. Not only have we got manuals explaining how to but we also have first hand accounts of it being done in battle, even with the larger and heavier light cavalry sabres. See our video below where I ran a workshop on this subject - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DWxYt43rpvA.html
