Examining real historical training swords from the Met Museum

[@edwardsleight8675]

Great context.

[@417hemaspringfieldmo]

Thank you guys!

[@richstone2627]

Thank you for sharing.

[@liamclark7560]

Can you, or are you planning to, publish the measurements and things of the Met examples vs your reproduction in text + image format rather than video for easier future reference?

[@armsarmorinc.4153]

Will do

[@timjackson5555]

Fascinating the truth of drawing blood back then. Interested in the steel used, and temper temperature used, can't ever get an unanimous answer for this.

[@armsarmorinc.4153]

There weren't really a lot of different kinds of steel then. It is carbon steel and the Matt estimates it's hardness at between 50 and 60 Rockwell, though this was done a long time ago when the swords were brought into the collection in 1915. I would estimate the hardness considerably less than that. The hardness in most swords from this period is quite variable along the blade. It is, however, a mono steel.

[@armsarmorinc.4153]

Tempering was not measured in temperatures in the 16th century. They probably just tempered it enough so that it was a spring.

[@armsarmorinc.4153]

also if you want to dive deep start here www.arms-n-armor.com/blogs/news/historical-sword-making-heat-treatment-pt1

[@timjackson5555]

@@armsarmorinc.4153 Thank you so much for taking time out to answer this for me. My daggers I just harden as a normal knife and blue the tang down into the ricasso. Usually 1095 & 15N20. Have been hearing some use 01 & L6 for sword steel, thinking of doing a couple.

[@PandaKnight52]

Can you post the accession numbers so that we could see the sword on Mets websites? Also the written down numbers would be interesting!

[@armsarmorinc.4153]

14.25 1111

[@armsarmorinc.4153]

Is the ascension #

[@LongswordRussia]

This is a real fetishschwert!