Sword Dimensions?

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after what feels like weeks of reading, I can find the blade height and length and handle length, blade taper, tip point, etc but I can’t find the blades thickness, ideally at the hilt?

I know most were in the 2lb range of weight, anyone have a good resource to read up on the blade thickness of a lot of the oakeshott classified swords?

I even purchased two books on the subject and while the pictures and info are great nothing on blade thickness there either.

Appreciate the help in advance!
 
What little I was able to discover led me to believe that to stay in the 2 or even 2.5 pound range. a blade was going to be a lot thinner than the typical stainless mall/ren fair/gun show crap swords. There is still the odd sword forum out there and they sometimes talk about dimensions. One thread was talking about using 8-9mm thick steel for a big meter long hand and a half sword, but for a smaller single handed one, another guy was talking about 5mm steel. This all assumes a pretty fair taper in both dimensions, mind you.
 
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My Atrim hand and a half is .240" at the ricasso tapering to .120" six inches from tip. :)

Edit- oh yeah, 42" overall/ 2lbs 4oz
~Chip
 
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Some of the heavier normal size swords that I looked out were the single handed wide blade cut and thrust swords like the Munich town guard swords. They run 3 pounds plus, but you wonder how much of that weight is in the basket hilt, etc.? The 34 inch blade on that tends to be like 2 inches wide and 6mm+ thick and tapering hard in both dimensions.
 
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