Posts: 8,310 Location: Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Sat 26 Dec, 2009 9:44 pm
Scott: The RavenWolf is 3" wide at the guard and 1 1/2" wide 5" from the point.
The
distal taper is quite extreme as the blade is 3/8" at the guard and less than 1/8" near the point ( would need calipers to be more precise about this: The forte of the blade is very stiff but the foible has a great deal of flexibility.
I could say that near the point the blade is close to the Tritonia in thickness.
The RavenWolf feels like a blade half of what the scales say it is and in spite of the weight feels nimble.
Hard to say what
Oakeshott type it might correspond to ? With the taper one could call it a Type XII rather than a Type X, because of the very wide blade at the guard I also sort of think of it as a giant Type XIV.
I haven't really cut with it but just hitting a piece of thick plywood with light wrist powered cut it feels like two different swords if I use the blade near the last few inches of tip or closer to mid blade or even closer to the guard: Close to the guard( 12" to 24 " ) it hits/feels like an axe, near the tip is fast and more like a scalpel. So fast precision cuts with the tip but heavy crushing blows with the forte. I expect that the forte would be difficult to displace while the tip's flexibility could be used to slip out of the bind. ( I find that flexibility in the foible permits subtle disengagements as the bending blade becomes an advantage if one knows and has the skill to make use of it.
Oh, don't know if this makes any difference quality wise but this sword " SINGS " when taken out of the scabbard and on impacts almost like a " Hollywood " cliché of a singling sword when the hero's sword rings at every blow falling faster and faster as the bad guy gets overwhelmed at the end of a dramatic sword fighting scene. ;) Sort of Errol Flynn in " The Adventures of Robin Hood ". :) :lol:
Link to the maker for those who haven't seen this sword:
http://www.ollinsworddesign.com/osd-custom-RW.html