Horse Riders Sword

Yangdu

Yangdu

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Overall length--32''
Weight --37 oz
Spine thickness--1/4''
Brass D-guard
Carved bamboo root handle
Leather sheath
Superb work by Kumar
Beautiful Sword for your growing collection at $299

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Just for interest, here is a UK Coast Guard mounted 'Rider's sword from the early 19c. 34.5 in. LOA, brass guard and ribbed hilt. Steel scabbard it a brass chape & throat. has a brass stud on the throat for fixing to a leather belt frog similar t the ones HI make (but with a slot for the scabbard stud) .
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kronckew said:
Just for interest, here is a UK Coast Guard mounted 'Rider's sword from the early 19c. 34.5 in. LOA, brass guard and ribbed hilt. Steel scabbard it a brass chape & throat. has a brass stud on the throat for fixing to a leather belt frog similar t the ones HI make (but with a slot for the scabbard stud) .
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Sir, thy picture rendereth not.
 
Bawanna said:
I have no idea what you just said but I can't see the picture.
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I will have you know, sirrah, that what I wrote was a perfect example of the Kings English!
Granted, the King is Leopold of Ruritania, who was quite mad. OK, we'll ignore the fact that Ruritania is a mythical kingdom. I mean, we're all friends here, right?
 
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. (I understood aardvark's rendering of the king's English in its entirety. I spite of its archaic transliteration.)
Anyways, here's another stab at rendering it for thee, M'Luds & Ladies.
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Can they make one with a 36" blade for us six-foot cavalrymen? Oh, and some distal taper bringing it down to 3mm at foible?

Zieg
 
The Zieg said:
Can they make one with a 36" blade for us six-foot cavalrymen? Oh, and some distal taper bringing it down to 3mm at foible?

Zieg
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You should probably email Yangdu directly with that question. Her email is the bottom of all her posts.
 
Zieg, You must be counting your horse's 4 feet along with your 2 feet. HI can make it however long you special order. A 36" blade seems a bit long for even a 6 foot tall trooper. When I was measured for my Sword as a cadet officer, they measure me, with my hands at my sides, from my thumb to the ground. That was so, dismounted, if I was swinging it (as in doing a sword salute on parade) the blade would not hit the ground and shatter. For me, that was a 28" blade. (i'm 5'9") A cavalry sword for mounted use would be a couple inches longer.

Aard, can you see my photo in post #8 now?
 
kronckew said:
Zieg, You must be counting your horse's 4 feet along with your 2 feet. HI can make it however long you special order. A 36" blade seems a bit long for even a 6 foot tall trooper. When I was measured for my Sword as a cadet officer, they measure me, with my hands at my sides, from my thumb to the ground. That was so, dismounted, if I was swinging it (as in doing a sword salute on parade) the blade would not hit the ground and shatter. For me, that was a 28" blade. (i'm 5'9") A cavalry sword for mounted use would be a couple inches longer.
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Note that he said "6-foot", not "6-footed".
 
A cavalryman with 6 feet would still be a six-foot cavalryman. My dog has four feet. A recent show in the UK where celebrities had to get 3 chickens to stand with exactly 6 feet in a 6-foot diameter circle at the same time, were not told that they had to be chicken feet, so on contestant managed to stand in the circle with 5 chickens, and they judged him to be within the task rules. They decided herding chickens was too difficult, so they changed the task to three dogs and exactly 12 feet & the contestant could count his own feet if they were in the circle. It's confusing, I blame the Sumerians for measuring lengths in feet. If Zieg had said 72 inches, it would have been less ambiguous and not near as useful inside a bad joke. (Ther contestant who won in the shortest time got the most points, he also bribed the dogs with pieces of sausage. The chickens were a disaster, bit like herding cats, they went everywhere but in the circle.
 
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Here's one with an even more extreme curve, made by Rajkumar Kami. I believe I got it from the collection of the late Bigbore577. It has a beautiful gray buffalo horn sheath trimmed in brass. Overall length 28" (measured in a straight line), handle length 8" (allowing a one-handed or two-handed grip).

Obviously this design could be used for slashing, not so good for forward thrusting. I wondered how the extreme curve might be useful. Then I realized that one could swing it backward over right or left shoulder to surprise an opponent attacking from the rear, with a block or stab.

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Hey I had a couple friends from Ruritania, didn't seem mythical to mwah but maybe they was. You go talking down Santa Claus and it's Horse Swords at 75 paces. Naw, forget that, we be friends and all ya know?
 
Bawanna said:
Hey I had a couple friends from Ruritania, didn't seem mythical to mwah but maybe they was. You go talking down Santa Claus and it's Horse Swords at 75 paces. Naw, forget that, we be friends and all ya know?
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Perhaps they were actually from Mauritania (western Africa)?
The whistling sound that you hear is the Santa Claus reference going over my head. Regardless, if you can score a hit with a sabre at 75 paces, you're a better man than I. Well, at least much taller
 
davidf99 said:
Obviously this design could be used for slashing, not so good for forward thrusting. I wondered how the extreme curve might be useful. Then I realized that one could swing it backward over right or left shoulder to surprise an opponent attacking from the rear, with a block or stab.

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I don't really know, but it seems to me a thrust would be good for laying a devestating cut with the curve.
 
kronckew said:
Zieg, You must be counting your horse's 4 feet along with your 2 feet. HI can make it however long you special order. A 36" blade seems a bit long for even a 6 foot tall trooper. When I was measured for my Sword as a cadet officer, they measure me, with my hands at my sides, from my thumb to the ground. That was so, dismounted, if I was swinging it (as in doing a sword salute on parade) the blade would not hit the ground and shatter. For me, that was a 28" blade. (i'm 5'9") A cavalry sword for mounted use would be a couple inches longer.

Aard, can you see my photo in post #8 now?
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Your Coast Guardsman's saber makes my point.

I train riders and horses for armed cav exercises. Don't know what you're talking about being measured for a sword. Troopers in 18h and 19h cents were 5'7 to 5'10 on avg and issued blades of 33" to 36". Heavy cav in 17h cent German states and Poland might issue a pallasch of up to 40" blade. Ex: Buffalo Soldiers maxed out at 5'10 by regulation and carried the 35" 1860 saber.

If you're wearing your sword for pedestrian parade a shorter saber would be nice, but OP calls this a horse rider's sword.

Anyway, I like Yangdu Yangdu blades.

Zieg
 
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