The Supreme-Cutter™ Classic from Lancelot is the result of his journey to create an optimized fighting sword, a blade that uses his 30 years of swordsmanship experience to full effect to create an ideal sword that balances reach, power, speed and practicality, a sword that is optimized for cleanly and repeatedly slicing tatami, thick rolls of newspaper and other targets. Each sword gets closely inspected by Lancelot himself to ensure that they meet his approval for a sword deserving of the Supreme Cutter title. The Compact Edition is specialized in combat in low height and narrow areas, such as doorway. It excels in defending behind the door, or in bashing through a doorway during an assault. It is also easier to carry around and is quicker to unsheath due to the shorter blade length. In addition, it’s also the lightest and fastest among the three, which allow single handed use more often, where the offhand is holding ranged weapons or something else to help one to defend oneself. You can read more of his design philosophy farther below.
The sword has a rigid and robust blade forged from well tempered GB 60Si2MnA High Carbon Manganese Spring Steel with a final tempered hardness of 50-55 HRc and sharpened to a fine and keen cutting edge and polished to beautiful reflective mirror finish.. The disk guard and pommel are of stainless steel with a sandblasted finish contrasted with a mirror polished rim. The wooden grip is tightly bound in blackened hand-wrapped cord. The sword is paired with a wooden scabbard which is tightly bound in faux black rayskin and is completed with a blackened brass locket and chape fittings. The scabbard is specially designed to ensure that sheathing / unsheathing the sword will not dull the blade edge. A cloth sword bag and sword presentation box are included.
Please Note: The standard factory edge merely means that the sword is not personally sharpened by Lancelot, but it is inspected by him. The edge from the factory bladesmiths is still very sharp and quite capable of efficient cutting.
About Lancelot
With decades of scholarly experience in European and Asian sword martial arts Lancelot is a recognized expert and instructor in the field. His school seeks to teach swordsmanship in a global way, unhindered by style and his students study the various schools of swordsmanship, such as German Lichtenauer and Chinese Tai Chi and then seek to blend together these various historical fighting systems in to a modern, efficient system tailored to each individual student. The focus being the attainments of excellent swordsmanship informed from the best that historical martial arts has to offer. Through rigorous sparring against a variety of opponents, weapons and situations and with focused and decisive practical cutting Lancelot and his students seek to best understand the sword and swordsmanship.
Vance Proctor (verified owner) –
I bought the Classic back in December and couldn’t be happier with the purchase so when the Compact appeared I had to have it. I received it a couple of weeks ago and it has the same build quality as the Classic. Some of the obvious differences are the size and weight,the compact is a little quicker in direction changes and tip control. All three swords have one thing in common and the best I can describe it is auto pilot,it’s very easy to set them in motion and once their moving they just seek your target, fire and forget lol. If you don’t believe me you can go to Lancelot’s website and watch the videos,also Phillip Martin had the swords at Valley of the sun and they were also at So Cal sword. It looks like only the classic is left and if they sit much longer I may have to grab it too.to be continued because I received the ultra Yesterday.
Vance Proctor (verified owner) –
I first purchased the classic and was impressed enough to purchase the compact and the ultra,so I can compare the the 3. First off the compact has the same high level of fit and finish as the other 2 but might be slightly sharper. Dimensions wise it’s about the same size as a katana but weighs more and is a more robust blade without feeling heavier or sluggish. Out of the three the compact is obviously the speed king which helps it with its slightly decreased cutting power compared to the classic and ultra. Overall the compact possesses the same quality and soul that all three swords in the Supreme Cutter Family have,just a slightly different flavor, they all have the same goal in their execution it’s just that the compact and the ultra are more specialized and the classic is the sort of Swiss army knife of the 3.