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Lancelot Sword – Supreme-Cutter™ Compact with Standard Factory Edge

$826.00

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    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.

    The concept of the Supreme-Cutter™ – an optimized fighting sword

    Why cutting is so important?

    According to medieval German longsword swordsmanship, there were three sword strikes: cut, thrust, and slice. When a cut missed, it could become a thrust. When a thrust missed, it could become a slice.

    However, if we consider “stopping power”, both slicing and thrusting would not stop a frenzied opponent right away. There are many historical records depicting duels that ended with mutual kills, with both parties inflicting the opponent with plenty thrusting wounds and together bled to death.

    George Silver, the 16th century British sword master, criticized Italian rapier swordsmanship for causing the death of many brave young Englishmen in duels. It was partly because thrusting wounds, while they would eventually kill, were unable to stop the opponent right away and protect oneself.

    The slicing attack was also not enough to stop a drugged opponent. There is video footage of villagers defending their home against gangsters, while the latter wielded glaives. The villagers were wounded several times in the fight. Hamstring and thumb were cut, but the brave villagers fought on. Also, there is footage of a modern European swordsmanship group which practiced with sharp sword sparring, and one of the participants was cut at the elbow, forming a gaping bleeding wound, yet the fencer did not even acknowledge the hit. It was his partner who pointed it out so they could stop the practice and tend the bleeding wound.

    As a result, the only reliable way to stop the opponent in their tracks, was a physical removal of the opponent’s appendage. This works on drugged, frenzied, zealous, or even undead opponents like zombies. Moreover, it was also the only way that one can threaten multiple opponents, cutting through the first target and still capable of threatening the next one.

    So, it was very important to have a design that can facilitate supremecutting power that would not have the blade getting stuck in the target and let the user become defenseless.

    For my 23 years of test cutting, I have used swords from various cultures and taken notes on all the factors that would contribute to good cutting power. Yet, it was only recently, with the use of high FPS camera, that allowed me to pinpoint the problem of blades losing penetrating power during a cut, and later develop a solution to mitigate it.

    In the end, “Supreme Cutter” is designed as the answer to maximize cutting power and minimize the probability of the blade getting stuck in the targets.

    – Lancelot

    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.

     

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