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Bill Love
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 Posted: Wed 04 Jun, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: German Foot Tournament Sword |
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In one this site's photo collections, there is a picture of what is called a German Foot Tournament sword. I'm familiar with the event, but I thought that wasters or mock swords made of whale bone were used. Does anyone know what this sword actually is?
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Bill Grandy
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| Posted: Wed 04 Jun, 2008 12:05 pm Post subject: Re: German Foot Tournament Sword |
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| Bill Love wrote: | | In one this site's photo collections, there is a picture of what is called a German Foot Tournament sword. I'm familiar with the event, but I thought that wasters or mock swords made of whale bone were used. Does anyone know what this sword actually is? |
I suspect that the sword was meant for some form of judicial duel, not tournament, though this is speculation on my part.
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Bill Love
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Thanks for the info and the links, guys. Has anyone out there built one of these? Could it be done through careful hand recontouring with, say, an existing type XVIII blade from a modern sword? I have a spare Windlass GBS that's just sitting around looking for something to do since I picked up my Del Tin 5155-?
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Chad Arnow
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| Bill Love wrote: | | Thanks for the info and the links, guys. Has anyone out there built one of these? Could it be done through careful hand recontouring with, say, an existing type XVIII blade from a modern sword? I have a spare Windlass GBS that's just sitting around looking for something to do since I picked up my Del Tin 5155-? |
I doubt it could be done. The grippable part of the blade seems to be as thick as the midrib, or thereabout.
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Bill Love
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I see what you mean. Anyone out there want to forge one? 
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Bruno Giordan
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| Bill Love wrote: | | I see what you mean. Anyone out there want to forge one? |
In my experience, making items out of flat pics will result in inaccuracies in blade geometry.
As for a start, it would be impossible to determine the thickness at various stages.
Given that it is a long blade I would assume a starting thickness in the 8 -10 mms range, but the presence of a nonstandard medio structure might have determined some changes to conventional blade geometry for blades of the same class.
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This is a standard topic