I bought the battle axe. I couldn't resist. I really like it, but I plan to put a new much longer handle on it. it's alittle too beefy for a one hander, I plan to turn it into a poleaxe.
+Lady Melisandre I don't think they are trying to be "tacticool" (Atlanta Cutlery already sells that crap) I think they are just imitating the MAA line from Cold Steel... Not that that is much better I suppose.
I personally own the Agincourt War Sword and the Maldon Seax, and I can tell you these are badass swords. The first 2 days I had them, I put them through 20 different kinds of Hell, and they never faltered for me. The pictures don't do them justice on the finish either. You can use oil to make them gleam and they look awesome. I'd highly recommend them. In fact, I'm waiting on the Acre as we speak. John Clements is absolutely right in reliability and function. I cut straight through the boxes they came in without the swords ever so much as slowing down. My Agincourt has one little nick halfway down the blade from a tree, but you don't notice it at all thanks to the finish. I personally liked the blackened look, but different strokes and all that. From a Battlecry owner, they exceeded my expectations, and I'd gladly pay more for this kind of quality.
As far as any type of compensation goes, JC hasn't received any form of payment for his involvement, or at least none that he has told us about. He did say that he was heavily involved with the design and manufacturing of the blades, and commented that he thought they might be a more more competitively priced equivalent to Albion's Maestro line.
Good stuff... Thanks for showing this vid I had no idea these were out on the market. Def battle ready, and functional sword for the price. John Clements must have gotten some serious cash to endorse this line, but still pretty convincing product line. Take care and I do enjoy your vids
This Battlecry line up is great for the entry into swords. Our Germanic ansestors and the anchient Ghost warriors would have loved this line up with the dark finish making it great for working in the dark nite. i will be picking up a viking era sword and seax
The Acre looks just like their Classic Medieval sword, just blackened. Since you were saying you might go for it, I thought I'd pass that on. Absent information to the contrary, Windlass might have just gone with a different aesthetic treatment on an existing sword design, I'm thinking.
+Bob Morgan Well new steel... because it is 1060. Also, if they hadn't changed some of their standard I'd imagine Mr. Clements wouldn't have been involved. Its hard to say. One of the reasons I might pick one up is simply because I could inform the larger community of the quality.
+Medieval Review Certainly! And, their Classic Medieval is one of their nicer swords. It was/is my first "real sword," bought through Kult. A bit blade heavy, but not more than one would expect from a sword of this type. Also, my fuller is off center on one side, so it somehow got through quality control. On the other hand, that gives it a more handmade look, which is also nice. It would be interesting to see if the Acre is a step up from the Classic Medieval in terms of handling and finishing. Keep up the great work. I really enjoy your channel and reviews.
+Medieval Review PS. From looking at photos, the Acre's blade looks slightly different, with a different width fuller, than the Classic Medieval's, although the hilt furniture looks the same.
Those new products look pretty cool, I was thinking as far as the construction of these swords; you don't think that they are assembled the same way Albion swords, are the tangs glued to the handle and then the pommel peened? I was thinking about that because of all the abuse footage that was in the video.
When I speak about quality of construction I'm not really talking about how they build it... most swords are made the same way, but rather how well they build it; do they use glue or expoxy, how much do they use, the quality of the peen, how well engineered the hilt assembly is, because that matters.
They reliably provide low priced swords, that are functional, but often are not perfect. They are one of the few Indian import companies that I can say good things about.
Have you reviewed these, I cant see a video? Im about to purchase my first sword. this arming sword is one ive been looking at and a few hanwei viking swords. any tips or advice? thanks for the response!!
i watched your 101 on sword buying. very informative. helped a lot. for my first sword budget is not too high but i dont want to buy something useless.
Windlass or Hanwei are a good places to start for sub $300. Windlass has more options in that price range. When you get to the $500 price range some really good option show up.
lol, "and sometimes infamous john clements" He gets a pointless amount of hate, doesnt he? Ive still never figured out why hes hated so much, mostly seems people arguing over how or why certain techniques were used. Hes got energy and passion for HEMA like no one else (inb4 someone freaks out because i used "HEMA" instead of "ARMA"). I think ill be picking up the longsword, I found it the other day for 250 and thought it was a nice price.
A seax with a pommel ? Is there any evidence for such a thing ? The aestetics of this line and coldsteels stupidly blackened MAA series are a very modern thing. The Orléans axe looks cool the head that is. With a long octagonal shaft this could be a fine early XVth cent pollaxe! All hilts are shit btw. ^^ The blade geometries of the thrusty swords like XV(a) or XVIIs are way off. Nobody except for the best craftsmen (and albion thanks to PJohnsson) are getting those right.
They look cheap and cheesy as hell,with stainless steel parts and wrong grips and profiles. They look as they are designed by some motorcycel clothes people. No just buy an Albion,innstead of this cheap swordlikeobjekts.
Morten Trolle not everyone can afford your overrated Albion swords, so excuse us all who live in the real world where we have almost no money to blow out our ass at whatever 1000 dollars and more toy we want next.
