Larry Bohnham
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 Posted: Mon 08 Nov, 2010 12:05 pm Post subject: Long sword edge geometry |
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I am going to try sharpening a blunt long sword and wondered what the preferred angle for the secondary bevel should be? I've heard anything from 17 degrees to 30 degrees. What was the typical edge angle on period swords, say 13th - 15th centuries? I want the sword to cut well, yet have enough strength to take the odd occasional clang on steel or wood, not edge to edge mind you, just the errant oops.
"No athlete can fight tenaciously who has never received any blows; he must see his blood flow and hear his teeth crack under the fist of his adversary..."
Roger of Hoveden, d.1201
a furore Normannorum libera nos Domine
"Henry, get down off that horse with that sword, you'll put someone's eye out!" Mrs. Bolingbroke's advice to her son, Henry, on the eve of the battle of Agincourt
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