Hello everyone, i saw this on Kult of Athena and was wondering if anyone had any experience with this sword Triple Lobed Godfred Sword - AH6966.
i know Deepeeka has a bad rep but this didnt look too bad.. maybe a few upgrades but other then that, i wonder how is the heat treat and PoB, etc..
any info
thanks in advance

Except the diamond cross section at the tip, it doesn't look bad. It even has two piece pommel with rivets.

from the pics on KoA.. it looks very nice and a good starter or fixer upper.

The question is is it heat treated and how well...

is it new? i visit the KoA site frequently and have never noticed.. maybe because i shy away from deepeeka but to me it looks good.. but looks are not everything in the sword world which i recently found out

.. another thing too is that on the site it doesnt say the whole blurb about "Although ''battle ready'' by virtue of the type of steel and construction, etc etc etc...."

hmmmmmmmm :?:

It's MUCH lighter than their other swords too! Looks very nice.... :D

the company got bought by some scandinavian guy; hence the primus line and a major overhaul in the fit, finish, balance, and temper of new deepeeka products. Hopefully they'll jump on the hole left by the "hanwie practical" and create some rebated swords for HEMA and BOTN style combat.

im very curious about this sword.. i am almost tempted to buy it and see whats the deal on it!

I'm not saying the following statement applies in this case, but at times you have to take weights listed on KOA with a grain of salt. I say this because the Gen 2 River Witham is listed on KOA as 4 lbs, on the Legacy Arms site as 3 lbs 1.4 oz, and on the CAS Hanwei site (Hanwei recently acquired Gen 2) as 3.3 lbs, or 3 lbs 4.8 oz. I have a Gen 2 River Witham, and my inaccurate method of weighing it results in 3 lbs 6.4 oz. My weight on a digital scale holding the sword vs. not holding the sword. Not a difference significant to the Deepeeka weight involved in this discussion though. Looking at the Deepeeka Viking Long sword AH4101M that KOA lists at 4 lbs 7 oz, the Triple Lobed Godfred compares well at 2 lb 7.8 oz. Of course the Godfred actually looks more like a Viking sword reproduction, where the Long Sword does not. Deepeeka's Gallowglass, listed at 6 lbs 5.8 oz looks to be quite the crowbar. I never gave Deepeeka a second glance before either. It would be interesting to see the Godfred in person.

On the Deepeeka site, it says its "New for 2012"
its listed as EN45 High Carbon Spring Steel. is this the same as their old swords? Ive been looking at all the others and this one "looks" far superior then their previous offerings.

I like this one even more, it looks quite right: http://www.deepeeka.com/armoury/documents/sho...t=Medieval

Have you gents seen these before?

No. And I would order that type H if I were not in Croatia. Shipping and taxes would easily cost me as much as a sword itself...

The fuller seems to end a little abruptly, or is it just me?

not too bad.. i think its a good project/starter sword that can be customized if the blade is good to go!

I would also like to hear about HT. If the HT is good, that's very cheap for what it is.

A few complaints; I've been looking at all the swords on the Deepeeka website, and a few things jumped out at me:

The fullers are all narrow. not as narrow as some later swords, but I would view them as bordering narrow on a Viking sword. As a matter of personal preference, I like to have the fuller about half as wide as the blade, but a third at least.
I also agree that it looks like the fuller ends square with the guard rather than continuing past it.


Despite having a two-part pommel, the construction is not authentic. Instead of riveting the upper guard to the tang and the pommel to the upper guard, the pommel appears to be riveted to the tang and the upper guard to the pommel. To me, that is weirder than just using a one-part pommel with fake rivets cast onto it. They went to all the effort of making a two part pommel and then put it together weird :confused: depending on how well the peened tang fits the pommel, this could be remedied with some grinding and polishing, which on some of the swords will be necessary anyway as the pommels don't all seem very well formed.


Those minor (to some) gripes aside, their scabbards are looking good (hopefully wood, or at least hard-something cored?) and some of them have authentic u-shaped chapes, and some leather chapes which I know not everybody likes, but it is a reasonable historical material. The strap bridges looked good too.

If these are all in the $100-200 region, I'll be buying a few I think. Project swords are more fun anyway.

Pete

PS: Definitely projects, nice as the Hersir sword looks I just noticed the hexagonal cross section at the tip!