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Kenneth Enroth
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My A&A Henry V rings just a little if I tap it near the tip. My Cold Steel grosse messer sings long and loud.
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Josh Aldous
Location: Wisconsin Joined: 25 Aug 2003
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Oh yeah -- I don't think for a minute that ringing has anything to do with quality so much as the fact that it's 'metal' 
I definitely have to reiterate the tight hilt thing, though. As Eric said, if it's tight, the vibration stays in the blade and reverberates nicely.
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Mike Fletcher
Location: Auburn, CA USA Joined: 21 Aug 2003
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This is an interesting phenomenon. I have two Albion swords - an Acre I got overt a year-and-a-half ago, and a Crusader I just got at an auction last weekend. The Acre (which is very solid) thuds whild the Crusader has a beautiful ring to it. I have no idea why one rings and the other doesn't.
Regards,
Mike
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Josh S.
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| Quote: | | The standard way to produce the "Ring of Steel" is to rap the blade near the guard with your fingernail. |
Yeah, it works that way too.
"The accomplishment of man has been to remain fractured, by cause of which we are strong."
-Jerome Santus Perriere
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J.D. Crawford
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I would like to resurrect this topic in case anyone has new insights.
I just got a sword that has a nice ring to it (literally). After testing a number of swords, I could find no pattern to which ones ring and which ones do not. Of my two best 'ringers' one has a long narrow blade, and the other is a viking type with a wide 31" blade, one higher end, one lower end. Of the ringers, some were more stiff and some more flexible.
Of the non-ringers, most of which simply give a dull thud, I could find no pattern either. True, one has a loose guard, but the rest are quite solid at the hilt. One could see that a loose hilt could dampen high frequency components, but its hard to explain the absence of ring in the rest of them.
I like the nice ring, but except in the case of a loose guard is there really anything to this besides some particular shapes resonating with high frequency vibrations?
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