Got a new sword

[Teufel Hunden]

1796 Light Cavalry Saber. Came with a certificate of having passed the British Proof Test.



It's very well made, from Cold Steel. I have only two complaints: 1) the blade is only half sharpened. The tip down to midway toward the hilt is great for cutting. Further down, it's unsharpened. No idea why they would do this. 2) The scabbard is fake leather... very cheap fake leather at that. But, aside from that, it's very heavy, very sturdy, and it cuts as well as in the videos on the Cold Steel website.

Close up of the hilt:



This is all very heavy steel... You feel confident that an afternoon of cavalry charging and skull bashing wouldn't bend anything out of place.

It's a very well balanced sword as well. Back to back cutting can be done very easily without skipping a beat. I ran out of tall cardboard boxes and my last cutting mat in about 20 minutes.

My favorite part: There is not one single marking on the blade. No "Cold Steel" logo, nothing. It looks like you'd expect a historical piece to look like, which is incredibly rare these days.