I wish I'd listed this, but it is slightly outside the Napoleonic era. My favorite sword is the 1821 light cavalry saber. Do you have any thoughts on this sword? Have you ever handled one?
Yep, many, it's a lovely sword. I love three bars anyway, even though they are outside of my main interest as far as British pattern swords of the period goes. The pipeback blades on these actually work quite well as they don't suffer the flimsiness issues that some of the infantry examples do. With the fullered blade they're generally better again. It's a really well rounded sword. There are also some lovely derivatives of it, like the artillery officer swords (infantry blade), the Indian types (1796 LC style blade). I also have a 1822 infantry officers sword that was clearly specified to have a 1821 pipeback cavalry blade, I must show it more on the channel. All
@@harjutapa I have been meaning to make a video on infantry swords with cavalry blades, as I have an 1803 infantry sabre that i similarly equipped with a beastly cavalry blade. It will be done soon.
@@AcademyofHistoricalFencing awesome! My dream is to one day own a 1821 light cav officer's saber, as well as a 1857 Royal Engineers. The only flaws I see in those two swords is that I am left handed, and therefore they're of limited use for me.
Over on the George Silver Society on Facebook a number of us have agreed that we find longsworders pretty easy to deal with using Silver's backsword/broadsword. I do just enough longsword to be annoying and people who eat my lunch with matched longswords I can pot over and over again using my basket hilt. May have something to do with why the longsword fell out of fashion. Or so it seems to me.
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Don't worry, he gets that all day, everyday, and not just during the lockdown, as he comes to work with me.
@@AcademyofHistoricalFencing Good lad.
These are great! Thanks for answering my questions!
I wish I'd listed this, but it is slightly outside the Napoleonic era. My favorite sword is the 1821 light cavalry saber. Do you have any thoughts on this sword? Have you ever handled one?
Yep, many, it's a lovely sword. I love three bars anyway, even though they are outside of my main interest as far as British pattern swords of the period goes. The pipeback blades on these actually work quite well as they don't suffer the flimsiness issues that some of the infantry examples do. With the fullered blade they're generally better again. It's a really well rounded sword. There are also some lovely derivatives of it, like the artillery officer swords (infantry blade), the Indian types (1796 LC style blade). I also have a 1822 infantry officers sword that was clearly specified to have a 1821 pipeback cavalry blade, I must show it more on the channel. All
@@AcademyofHistoricalFencing I'd love to see that sword!
@@harjutapa I have been meaning to make a video on infantry swords with cavalry blades, as I have an 1803 infantry sabre that i similarly equipped with a beastly cavalry blade. It will be done soon.
@@AcademyofHistoricalFencing awesome! My dream is to one day own a 1821 light cav officer's saber, as well as a 1857 Royal Engineers.
The only flaws I see in those two swords is that I am left handed, and therefore they're of limited use for me.
Over on the George Silver Society on Facebook a number of us have agreed that we find longsworders pretty easy to deal with using Silver's backsword/broadsword.
I do just enough longsword to be annoying and people who eat my lunch with matched longswords I can pot over and over again using my basket hilt. May have something to do with why the longsword fell out of fashion. Or so it seems to me.
Are there any sources in English regarding French spadroon fencing?
Cute dog :)