Sharpened sword question.

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Telrunya

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Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place.

I recently bought a pre-sharpened sword and have noticed something that stuck me as slightly odd.

Images: http://imgur.com/7sN3uO7,7F7c1vS#0

I'm not sure if it can be easily seen in the images, but in the first image the sharpening grinding is deeper and wider on one edge but is a uniform width on the others. I wondered if anyone here could me an idea if there was reason that a sword would be intentionally sharpened like this or if it simply the sharpener being overzealous/lazy on one edge and the company just shipped it as is?

Any help/ideas are greatly appreciated.
 
Welcome aboard

Who was the maker and vendor? What is the sword model? It is difficult to get much from the photo but a lot of swords that were not ground to be sharp in the first place tend to be more work for anyone putting a cutting bevel on them. If it differs from one side to another, yes, just a matter of whomever it was doing the job. Secondary bevels can be blended somewhat but even if the polish is the same across the board, you will probably still see a difference.

Kult of Athena usually does ok with the chore, Museum Replicas/Windlass similarly. Darksword Armory is still the pits as far as decent sharpening but their swords have often been quite thick at the edges.

There really isn't any magic inolved in sharpening blades and dozens of ways to do the job.

Cheers

GC
 
horseclover said:
Welcome aboard

Who was the maker and vendor? What is the sword model? It is difficult to get much from the photo but a lot of swords that were not ground to be sharp in the first place tend to be more work for anyone putting a cutting bevel on them. If it differs from one side to another, yes, just a matter of whomever it was doing the job. Secondary bevels can be blended somewhat but even if the polish is the same across the board, you will probably still see a difference.

Kult of Athena usually does ok with the chore, Museum Replicas/Windlass similarly. Darksword Armory is still the pits as far as decent sharpening but their swords have often been quite thick at the edges.

There really isn't any magic inolved in sharpening blades and dozens of ways to do the job.

Cheers

GC
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It's a Windlass 5 Lobe Viking Sword and the vendor was The Knight Shop (http://www.theknightshop.co.uk/). However I have ordered from them before and the sharpening was fine (imo). The wider bevel on one edge is in no way a deal breaker to me and I'm very impressed with the overall weight and handling of the blade. Honestly it would probably be easy to match the width of the bevel (my mind went blank to the proper term in my first post) on all sides with a bit of work if I find it bothering me that much. I simply wondered if there was a reason for it that I missing, but it seems not.

Thanks fo taking to the time to help. :)
 
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