Medieval falchion, cutlass, short saber, 21" curved stainless blade, no sheath

Description: Offered is a very basic common person's short sword, an item likely to have been carried more with the intent of deterring or defending against attack, rather than aggressively hunting trouble. The curved blade, to some degree, evolved from older single-edged patterns of long knife and short sword, as well as being influenced by weapons in the hands of Eastern soldiers and traders. This example has a 21" x 1 1/2" x 3/32" thick stainless blade, and a hilt with a steel S-shaped guard, with an oak haft. It has a 9/16" wide tang, one piece with and thus the same thickness as the blade, running inside the full length of the hilt. High-impact epoxy coats all hidden surfaces from the guard back, locking the blade and hilt components together for maximum strength. Though the blade is on the thin side (3/32" equates to just shy of 2.16 mm), many pre-16th century falchions and falchion-type swords had blades less than 2mm thick --likely intended for slashing through heavy clothing, not hewing or bashing armor, hence my considering this to be a civilian weapon. The blade finish is a little on the rough side, far from mirror-bright and showing faint grind marks. I tried to get a couple decent shots of the roughest parts, extensions from the center of the crossguard, but neither my camera or photography skills are overly good. It's a somewhat unfinished look, with a few weld inclusions -- not hideously bad but not something I'm going to attempt, again. It's not extremely sharp, but could be gotten that way without a lot of time or effort. Please note, my swords and knives can't be taken apart, short of literally destroying the hilt. The swords aren't intended for more than light sparring, at most, being built around blades made for basically display weapons. Unlike a firearm used in reenactment, which will generally work very well for, say, deer hunting (done that, many times), a sword for the most part doesn't have much real-world use. I build them to hold together somewhere approaching forever, and, apart from the stainless blades, to pass as acceptably authentic. I am not aware of any source of sheaths (which would need to be leather or metal, to maintain historical correctness) for blades of this shape, and my leatherworking skills are such that for me to make a sheath would be painfully labor-intensive and result in a poor finished product, at best. I will leave that feature to the buyer.

Price: 28.5 USD

Location: Lawrenceburg, Indiana

End Time: 2024-12-01T23:36:36.000Z

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