Very Long Rapier Blades? -- myArmoury.com

Justin Pasternak · Posted: Thu 03 Jul, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject: Very Long Rapier Blades?

I was curious if someone (anyone) has any information or pictures of Rapiers' with blades of five to six feet in length?

The longest blades that I've seen are from about 45" - 48" in length.

J. Pav · Posted: Thu 03 Jul, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

I don't think even Tuck's, which were two-handed weapon that also was a dedicated thruster, were that long.

David Evans · Posted: Fri 04 Jul, 2008 3:41 am Post subject: very long rapier blades

Royal Armouries/Tower of London Reference 9/75 from http://www.musketeer.org/Garrick/Blade_spec_article.html I think this works out at about a 52" blade. Long enough?

I did some number crunching a few years back and from a sample of 70 blades I could get enough detail on I worked out that the median total length was about 48.3" long, with a median blade length of about 41.4". The variation is small, but noticable with most rapiers in the sample falling in a 3" spread of the total length and 2" spread of the blade length. [/url]