Interested in Roman Riding?

[Robert]

Hi John,

I have not had a look at Jurjen's sword close up, but what makes you assume that particular blade will break? With you being experienced at hitting things with swords from horseback, what should I be looking for when making Jurjen a battle ready sword. As I understand things, swords commonly sold for re-enactment purposes tend to fail at two points, a welded on rat-tail tang threaded and screwed in with a round nut and also at the place the sword goes into the hilt, if the shoulder of the blade is too thin to take the stress at that pivot point at impact. For a blade itself to actually break, it would need to be either flawed, brittle from being overhardened and not properly tempered or both. Would really value some expert opinion on this.

And Jurjen, that is on heck of a turnout!! Laudes for that magnificent effort