I went to cut Bamboo stick with my study members yesterday. It is first time for cutting something with Valiant armoury the Savoy.



It was not good for cutting bamboo. Anyway it doesn't matter. I didn't care. It could be possible. Because It was double beveled edge.

When I cut the bamboo stick 10 times(10 CUTS, Not 10 BAMBOO STICKS), BLOODY RIDICULOUS thing happened. It was broken and broken blade flew away. Even one of member could be hurt.


DO YOU REALLY THINK THIS IS POSSIBLE?? SWORD FOR 10 CUTS?????



I disassemble the hilt after back to home. And I found the HUGE GAP BETWEEN CROSS GUARD AND TANG. AND IT IS WELDED!!!!! OMG.....

IMO, Tang was heat treated when Mr. Suttles(Sonny Sutters) welded the cross guard and tang. Sonny shouldn't do that.




https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1mq4jHWcavaUV9CNnlkQnVKWlk <--- FULL PHOTO OF BROKEN SWORD. Google drive Link.

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Bamboo is between ash and hickory on the janka hardness scale. Swords are not axes, abusing a sword against immovable hard target repeatedly will either snap the blade or break the tang exactly at the junction of the crossguard.

That isn't a welded on tang, the crossguard was welded to the tang to prevent rattling. the cross section of the broken tang shows it had little to no penetration despite cosmetically heat bluing the metal. Technically that would be a bad weld, but being "bad" means it didn't change the temper of the blade. Welded on crossguards do not cause a failure point on a sword like an improper scarf weld.

Wow
Just wow
That shouldn't have happened