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My thoughts and experiences with swords of that era run along these lines.

By the 18th and 19th centuries, the armies of the world are gearing up into the Industrial Revolution. Firearms are being produced en mass, and before long cutlery begins to fall along these same lines. Granted, this en ...

I bought a golok from them recently. I may have just gotten unlucky, but when doing cutting tests I received mixed results. On one target, two point of contact chewed through the target. A third chop at a more optimum portion of the blade resulted in a half dollar sized chunk bending out. I figured ...

Howdy. This is my first post on here, so please forgive any errors that occur in my formatting.

I have used the battle ax in limited fashion, and I have found a number of advantages to using it. Primarily, it is much easier to acquire a quality ax than a quality sword, due to the quality metal ...