Swords and Daggers

[RikJohnson]

DO NOT get the cold steel poly swords. They are terrible and don't hold up under ernest training and can break in a dangerous way. They're also not even close to the balance of a real sword. If you want a waster to bang around go to woodenswords.com and get either a wooden waster or the Penti III+.

My experience is the exact opposite.
Of course the weight and balance will never match a real steel blade, but then, neither will a wooden sword.
But no matter what I've done to it, training at the LV Combat-Con, demo training for events, or just playing around, the thing has held up and held up wonderfully.

I have the Longsword, 2 broadswords and the gladius that I modified from leaf to a straight blade plus the dagger and have never had any issues with any of them.
I just wish that CS made a cutlass design. I asked them for one and they said that they'd need to have more people ask before they had them made.

[Ringulf]

You should talk to Manveruan's group of pirate folk and my friends in the Laviathin group down here, they might think it a cool campaign to get a petition up to show support for the idea and then pitch it to the folks at CS!

just a thought

[mcapanelli]

DO NOT get the cold steel poly swords. They are terrible and don't hold up under ernest training and can break in a dangerous way. They're also not even close to the balance of a real sword. If you want a waster to bang around go to woodenswords.com and get either a wooden waster or the Penti III+.

My experience is the exact opposite.
Of course the weight and balance will never match a real steel blade, but then, neither will a wooden sword.
But no matter what I've done to it, training at the LV Combat-Con, demo training for events, or just playing around, the thing has held up and held up wonderfully.

I have the Longsword, 2 broadswords and the gladius that I modified from leaf to a straight blade plus the dagger and have never had any issues with any of them.
I just wish that CS made a cutlass design. I asked them for one and they said that they'd need to have more people ask before they had them made.

To each their own I guess. I just don;t find them to be good at all. Their great for bashing i to one another, but not so great for exciting anything beyond that. My group doesn't use them at all anymore.

I look at it lie this; I've been playing music since I was 4. I worked as a professional session player and signed artist for 10 years. I can make a Carlo Robelli or Johnson sound like a Martin D-28, but by no stretch of the imagination are either of those instruments even close to the Martin, let alone a Huss & Daltin or Collings. Just because I can make them sound good doesn't mean their good instruments, just like because I can excite a Zornhau or Zwerchau with a CS waster doesn't make it as good or even close to my Penti, or even a Rawlings. Can I fence with one? Yes. Do I recommend fencing with one? No.

[Manveruon]

You should talk to Manveruan's group of pirate folk and my friends in the Laviathin group down here, they might think it a cool campaign to get a petition up to show support for the idea and then pitch it to the folks at CS!

just a thought

Haha, heck yeah! I know for a while we were really looking for a good cutlass waster to practice with. In the end though the group kind of fell apart, so there's not much need anymore. Still... Tempting...