Actually in this case thats pretty easy
Lets set the mood by saying this is not a CS bashing
I have been buying there stuff since the eighties
CS swords are made overseas as generlized swords for a generlized market. For the money there a good value but if what you want is something more historically acurate then you have to look elsewhere as in Albion or Arms and Armor just to name a couple. If all you want is a resonable copie then there is lots to choose from and many are very good. A sword is very complex in it's construction and few know this, Albion is one of the one's that know. Albions are fully researched and great attention is payed to capturing the geometry, balance and feel of the actual historical piece in otherwords they spend a lot of time blueprinting orginals to get there "recreations correct". There swords are not duplicates of originals (with the exception of the mesuem line) but rather they are indicative of a particular time period when swords were state of the art technology. CS swords are more in line with say Del Tin or Windlass swords.
I guess a good anology is in the world of cars there are VW's, Corvetts and McLaren F1's, it's the same in the world of swords.......
