well in the end had to throw in the towel. Sword reviewer Matthew Jensen put it through an increasingly damaging series of tests including splitting dry wood, bending it to the extreme, banging the tip into lumber, cutting sheet metal, sword vs sword clashing, more extreme bending, and finally throwing a huge cinderblock on the blade to try and shatter it (though it did not break, but rather just took a nasty set) - banged it on a tree, started chopping at rocks and. Destructive Testing.Īfter I had completed by flex tests, these swords were all packed up and sent back to Ronin Katana - and it was from here that the very same Longsword # 7 which we had already tested on waterbottles, PVC pipe cored newpaper rolls, thick bamboo and pork legs was to meet its fate. Worlds apart - and even after being used heavily, the excellent tempering wasĬlearly apparent in all 3 swords. Note how easily it bends, but does NOT return to center - andĬan even be bent, and broken in half, with bare hands.! The video below you will also see a comparative flex test of a wall hangerĭecorative sword. Relatively thin, tapering profile - the model 8 sword was the second most Tempering, the model 7 was the most flexible which is not surprising from its You can see from the video below - all 3 swords showed extremely good Promptly replaced and reported to the forge). Had been reported as having less than ideal tempering (and were, as usual, Next day after all the testing I spent some extra time with the RK Euro swordsįlex testing them as there had been a couple of the model 7 Longswords which The test results were clear, these swords were tough, had a good mass distribution for optimal cutting, and could - in some cases - outperform a Katana cutting bamboo! Flex Testing Test on a high end ($1,400) Japanese sword resulted in multiple chips and some Lancelot Chan of Realistic Sparring Weapons and one of his students and SBGĬutting straight down into the multiple small bones of the pork shoulder, theīlade went straight through and came away with not even a single mark. Photographing and testing these swords occurred in Hong Kong with my friend My first chance to spend any real time handling, The three swords that I will be reviewing here: Model 7, a Longsword, Model 8 a Viking sword and Model 9, a single handed arming sword. Second generation of Euro Swords that were built on those early, difficult Replaced free of charge and the first 6 swords were liquidated at cost priceĪnd 3 new swords from a different, more reliable forge were commissioned. the weld was not consistent and even though initial hard tests had notĭiscovered any lemons, they were out there.Ī company that stands behind their products, any reported breakages were The weld is done well, this is not a problem - however, being production swords Instead of the tang being made from one piece, they had decided to weld the However, uponĪrriving in the USA, it was found that the forge had taken a shortcut and Michael Tinker Pearce for easy dis-assembly and customization. Key - a common practice first introduced to the market by Angus Trim and Ronin Katana realized this, they had every sword remounted in newly designedįittings at considerable expense, but the troubles did not end there.įirst 6 models were designed to be fully dis-mountable with a hex nut and allan
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