Who cares?
You've given no support except your own experience....of which we know nothing. I, on the other hand, have been very clear about my level of experience. Did you gain sword experience at the expense of, say, reading comprehension?
This isn't rocket science, nor is it brain surgery. It's cutting something with a sharp edge. Stop trying to pretend that there are "wise masters" who have this "magical genius" that the rest of us somehow lack. The best swordsman in the world has the edge by virtue of technique and practice, not some ethereal level of knowledge above and beyond "the masses".
I would take Crimson Falcon's clear and reasoned explanation that meshes easily with the "experience" of anyone who's cut something with a knife in their life over your "trust me.....I know", any day.
Cheers
Actually, you might do well to comprehensively read my previous post (that you had posted parts of)
Some of my experiences (and others that have cut with me) are here for all to read as well. I claim no great knowledge beyond my own experiences and others I associate with in real life.
Let's go back a bit in this thread a bit here.
Look at the butcher knife. Look at meat processing knives.
That, your response to my comment
Look at a ham slicer with ten or twelve inches of straight blade. Or for that matter any kitchen knife. Only certain types of the have much curve at all.
Then
Look at the relatively extreme curve of the Blucher sabre.
You may have missed this towards the end pf that post of mine.
There is also the argument that there is less shock transmitted during a cut with a curved blade and if you consider a sabre on horseback, it almost makes sense in a passing cut.
You might also be missing that the form was for the light cavalry and heavy cavalry used straight swords. The British 1796 heavy not a slim pallasch (look it up) but rather a blade not so unlike the slashing swords of the "vikings". We'll get back to curved swords in a minute.
Another section you you replied to reads
That experience must account for all variables. In other words, if one is going to analyse the effect of the curve of a blade, he must have controlled for weight, mass, angle, etc; otherwise, how will he know which of the other factors may/may not have affected the performance?
You were replying to this
In heavy cutting (which includes draw) It has been large western medieval types that have succeeded where the katana hve failed (due to mass at speed due to longer blades). This could be argued endlessly but I have experienced this, just as some others have.
You seem to think I am writing this from some sort of vacuum and had thought of nothing you relate.
Bore you with details and real life experiences with others? C'mon down next time we do this. Always glad to see BFers. The
Northeast Cutlery Collectors Association were happy to have visited this day. We have been doing this since 2003 and an associate longer than that down in Lincoln RI. There are knives as well and mine actually as big a public draw as my four dozen or sword swords (yes, I cut with some antique swords as well).
Books? Sword related? Ummm, yup.
How much is too much curve? Russian infantry
More than a katana huh?
Which sword below has more tip speed and overall cutting ability (with both swinging and drawing at the same velocities). Read that again, just in case.
Which target below was
more impossible to cut with a katana (I know hard to see but discussed by me recently, here at BF.
Not sure why you seem to need my credentials when you have offered none directly to me, nor bothered to reply with what your slicers are. A pretty simple request. What is your personal experience with swords? I'm not bashful but a real inventory and reviews of all will take the rest of my life. Suffice it to say I have not handled all the swords ever made but I have decent relations to the five dozen I have and had, with larger medieval types being what I have cut most with. BTW, it was not only in my hands that the katana did not make the cut (that's a pun, if I were to make a point).
Another shot of my medieval junk
So, c'mon down this next September and we'll cut stuff with a wide variety of stuff. Bring your stuff too
Cheers
GC
I still like my spears for shtf
Two light using swords I might take. The straight one is near razor sharp and yes, I use them.
Or maybe something bigger?
Sorry, I've nothing in INFI