Sword Review - Wakefield Hanger - Windlass/Royal Armouries/Matt Easton collaboration
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
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I review the Windlass/Royal Armouries/Matt Easton aka @scholagladiatoria collaboration English 15th Century Falchion, or Wakefield Hanger.
This sword on Museum Replicas: www.museumreplicas.com/englis...
IX.144 historic artifact at the Royal Armouries: collections.royalarmouries.or...
Matthew Cross (@MatthewCross2) CZcams channel: / @realswords2997
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00:00 Intro
00:31 Background
03:17 Accuracy
07:31 Scabbard
08:51 Hilt
12:33 Blade
14:17 Rippling discussion
16:57 Blade continued
19:32 Cutting
22:11 Potential Improvements
22:49 Bottom Line
24:48 Outro
Background Music
Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115
Composed by Johannes Brahms
Performed by William McColl
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Sourced from MusOpen: musopen.org/music/2011-clarin...
Very well put-together review! Covers every aspect and I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. Definitely one of the best Windlass swords, and one of the best in the price range. Very lightweight and nimble with refined edge geometry. I think the hardness is a bit low at around HRC50, which caused rolling. Cutting plastic bottle through the hard neck could potentially damage the edge. If the hardness is too high, it would chip, conversely low hardness will result in rolling. Looks like it was the latter case.
I definitely hope Windlass continue their collaboration with Matt Easton, and take the customer feedback like this the right way to improve the few areas namely how to execute an excellent and precise professional design more accurately and learn more about refinement on small details such as the grip wrapping and hilt edge chamfering.
Thanks!
50 HRC is definitely a little on the low side, so that does make sense as to why the edge rolled a little. Luckily it's minor, should be easy to fix, and doesn't really seem to be affecting the sword at all.
Awesome review Kyle, and so happy to see what windlass has been able to do. This is a huge coup for them and Matt, and I’m glad to finally see a reviewer that I trust go over one of these blades in such eggs, exacting detail. Looking forward to more on the horizon!
Thanks! Now if Windlass could just up their QC a bit and not have quite as many with big enough flaws that they have to be returned.
Great review, as you say it's really nice to see more (non-DSA) options at the neglected mid-range, especially given how underrepresented these kinds of falchions/hangers are.
Overall I agree with your thoughts regarding the whole rippling-being-historical debate. One point which was brought up during those discussions, and which I had never thought about before, was that "mistakes of the master are not the same as the mistakes of the novice" (paraphrasing).
In other words, while it's true that a lot of historical swords may have had imperfections caused by extremely talented makers working at speed and scale, it's not fair to say that the imperfections of cheaper or less attentive labor in modern markers are equivalent, or that they make those swords "more historical". I do think it's fair to expect that swords at higher price ranges today have fewer "flaws".
Thanks! Very good point about the master/novice mistakes.
Great review! It's probably my favorite of this Royal Armories collaboration so far.
Much appreciated!
That's a great little cutter.
I love yr soundtracks! Nice to hear tranquil classical music in this kind of thing.
Thanks!
The diagram at 4:07 was very helpful, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Your reviews are always so well planned out. My vids are random thoughts + chaos surprising edited into a coherence 😂
But you definitely do some of the best reviews on CZcams in my opinion.
That's a really good choice! Very robust and functional 🙂
Great review Kyle as always! Now I kinda want one!
Thanks!
in between a medieval falchion and a early modern era backsword
Nice work! I especially liked the tabletop discussion shot. I hope you keep that as a regular thing in the future?
Thanks! I do plan on filming more at that location, as long as I can keep my cats away from bare blades. 😂
When I first heard about theses swords I was really excited. I always liked windlass. They've made some infamous blunders but it always seemed like they were actually trying to make decent products. I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. He just dropped a new 1796 light cavalry saber btw. I can't wait to buy one! Lol 🤘
Keep up the good work brother love your channel
Thanks! I'd love to try out that saber, but the budget says not right now. 😢
@@alientude I feel ya probably not gonna be able to afford it till next year😅 but it's definitely on short list.
@@sinisterswordsman25 😂 I'm not going to be able to buy any new swords for awhile. That Crown Forge XIIa I bought recently kind of destroyed my budget...
I appreciate your reviews but this is the only sword you have reviewed that I have had any interest in. So many brutish slashers!😉I prefer lighter stabby swords with much hand protection. Anything from a foppish smallsword to a stiff mortuary sword can make me happy. Before I moved to the middle of nowhere here in WY I was near a city large enough to have HEMA clubs and really took a lot of unpleasant hits to the hand. Anyway, I enjoy your excellent presentations regardless.
We all have our specific tastes in swords! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the review, Kyle. While I quite like the sword and its approach, I still feel it's a bit overpriced for what it delivers, even compared to its single handed sword siblings from that line.
Fair enough! Thanks for watching.
I reckon, if anything it's underpriced for what it is. It's the attention to exacting details that raise the price up, and this piece is exceedingly close to the original.
About the edge damage:
I have seen many reviews on CZcams where people have damaged good swords on the caps of 2-liter bottles. It doesn't seem like they should be hard enough to do so, but it seems from the evidence they are.
Thanks. I very much like mine, lovely in the hand. Do you have a good suggestion on how to remove the India & royal armouries marks? They seem to be etched or lasered on.
I just wet and dry paper them out, then re polish. Takes the best part of the day as I don't use machines, but it's worthwhile, and you can then get the polish finish you want.
after forging several swords by hand myself, i don't even know how someone would get rippling in the blade. it must be done from the scotch brite process. maybe i just grind them different. In my eyes its really easy to not have rippling in your blade if you are using a belt sander. Even albions have rippling. I don't get it. just use the goddam platten on the belt sander lol About the damaged edge, maybe they are using 6150. Albion has similar edge durability issues. I can cut through heavy wood and chop dense knots with my own forged swords with zero issues, my albion gets damaged. Have to remember they are production swords, not hand forged for strength one at a time. Production blades steel is chosen for ease of machinability, ease of grinding and polishing (scotchbriting more accurately.. god i hate scotchbrite finishes!!) and lastly chosen for low cost. 6150 offers the lowest possible cost while still being technically hardenable. Not enough carbon in 6150 to make a strong edge tho. some say around 54 hrc max for 6150, swords like albions i believe fall somewhere below that. There are some historical medieval swords whose edges fall around 60 hrc and whose central ridges are around 55hrc as the were differentially hardened likely because they were not using ovens to harden swords back in the day that raise the entire object to critical temps
The lug looks like it should curve back, to cover the can an bit. Kinda like an lang messier
As I understand it, they went back and forth with the design of the lug, at one point having it be a full d-guard curving back to the pommel, but eventually Matt Easton and the Royal Armouries decided on this.
I took the lug off on mine and smoothed it out so it's nearly undetectable! It is soooooo much nicer and handier to wield. I was a bit reluctant at first, but now I can't imagine having that horrible thing impeding movement and cuts. I recommend for those who want a comfy cutter and don't care about resell/collector aspect. Besides, I believe many of these falchions didn't have a lug. Also, Arms and Armor did a custom version without any lug... Great video, as usual. Good music too!
Yeah but its a windlass....windlass is butt
Windlass is "sometimes" butt. Just depends on who is making what on any given day.
18:58 Jeez, that is indeed disappointing. I guess I shouldn't try cutting meat whenever I get mine? I even wanted to try cutting bone with it. Do you think it was just yours that came with a defect or maybe I should test out mine anyway?
I think the edge on this sword is quite fine, and there's not a lot of "meat" behind it, so it's going to end up being a more delicate edge. In history, I think the small bit of deflecting here would have been considered relatively normal, and corrected the next time it was sharpened.
Meat should pose no problem. I could see bone causing similar issues, especially as the bone is no longer living.
@@alientude good point of view. Thanks for answering man. I'll still be super happy to get this sword.