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[Raiden]

 

[Lupaie]

Craftmanship! What a master

[Waller]

There's a whole industry around this. Replicas are usually very expensive, fragile and useless as weapons because the sword design adds unnecesary weight and other technical stuff.

 

I guess it's fine since they're just for show, though. It's a really cool video.

[Socalmuscle]

But that's nothing compared to the sword of the real Crom...

[3Dude]

There's a whole industry around this. Replicas are usually very expensive, fragile and useless as weapons because the sword design adds unnecesary weight and other technical stuff.
 
I guess it's fine since they're just for show, though. It's a really cool video.

Man at arms whole premise is to make actual functional weapons, even at the expense of cosmetic appearence. They.... DOnt always work out because of the frivolous/impractical designs you mention (The buster sword episode was pretty funny.) But.... Not all the time.

In this case, Chroms falchion turned out to be one hell of a sword even though it had a fairly elaborate design.

Forged from 5160 spring steel (top grade blade steel, most replicas just use stainless steel), and heat treated to 56 rockwell (High quality blade hardness), its thicker than modern service swords like calvary sabers, comparable to a little bit thick broadsword (Broadswords typically start out with a 3/16 thick cut of steel, this started out with a 1/4 inch thick cut of steel), has a massive full tang, at least a foot long, for a strong and flexible blade, and a solid cast brass hilt and pommel. Completely solid, as in they poured molten metal into a cast solid. The solid brass hilt and pommel kept the heft in the hands and balanced the weapon well.

This one will break a lot of other kinds of swords before it compromises, especially ones without the benefits of modern alloys and heat treating processes. and will absolutely cut and pierce, with a high degree of durability.

The master sword also turned out robustly functional. Although I strongly disagree with them spray painting the hilt. Should have blued it via oxidation.

[Gimbal]

Man at arms whole premise is to make actual functional weapons, even at the expense of cosmetic appearence. They.... DOnt always work out because of the frivolous/impractical designs you mention (The buster sword episode was pretty funny.) But.... Not all the time.

In this case, Chroms falchion turned out to be one hell of a sword even though it had a fairly elaborate design.

Forged from 5160 spring steel (top grade blade steel, most replicas just use stainless steel), and heat treated to 56 rockwell (High quality blade hardness), its thicker than modern service swords like calvary sabers, comparable to a little bit thick broadsword (Broadswords typically start out with a 3/16 thick cut of steel, this started out with a 1/4 inch thick cut of steel), has a massive full tang, at least a foot long, for a strong and flexible blade, and a solid cast brass hilt and pommel. Completely solid, as in they poured molten metal into a cast solid. The solid brass hilt and pommel kept the heft in the hands and balanced the weapon well.

This one will break a lot of other kinds of swords before it compromises, especially ones without the benefits of modern alloys and heat treating processes. and will absolutely cut and pierce, with a high degree of durability.

The master sword also turned out robustly functional. Although I strongly disagree with them spray painting the hilt. Should have blued it via oxidation.

 

Sephiroth's Sword was also funny. Wobbly as karp cuz way too long and skinny. 

[Waller]

Man at arms whole premise is to make actual functional weapons, even at the expense of cosmetic appearence. They.... DOnt always work out because of the frivolous/impractical designs you mention (The buster sword episode was pretty funny.) But.... Not all the time.

In this case, Chroms falchion turned out to be one hell of a sword even though it had a fairly elaborate design.

Forged from 5160 spring steel (top grade blade steel, most replicas just use stainless steel), and heat treated to 56 rockwell (High quality blade hardness), its thicker than modern service swords like calvary sabers, comparable to a little bit thick broadsword (Broadswords typically start out with a 3/16 thick cut of steel, this started out with a 1/4 inch thick cut of steel), has a massive full tang, at least a foot long, for a strong and flexible blade, and a solid cast brass hilt and pommel. Completely solid, as in they poured molten metal into a cast solid. The solid brass hilt and pommel kept the heft in the hands and balanced the weapon well.

This one will break a lot of other kinds of swords before it compromises, especially ones without the benefits of modern alloys and heat treating processes. and will absolutely cut and pierce, with a high degree of durability.

The master sword also turned out robustly functional. Although I strongly disagree with them spray painting the hilt. Should have blued it via oxidation.

Yeah, most of Nintendo's swords are relatively down to earth in their design, unlike Square Enix who just throws whatever stupid thing first comes to their mind. The Keyblade is pretty hilarious,

By the way, I noticed something:



Chrom's sword has a rounded rectangular grip in the official art (and I'm pretty sure it's in-game as well), while these guys gave it a round grip (which doesn't do anything but make edge alignment a tougher task for the user). It's not that bad of a hiccup, but it's pretty weird considering the amount of attention to detail they gave it otherwise.

Edited by Miss Understanding, 03 June 2014 - 11:34 PM.