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ARMART blades held up quite well at Livermore Symposium -
06-10-2002, 09:11 AM
Jim Nordstrom and I took our Armart cavalry palaches to the Sword Symposium in Livermore this past weekend, and found that the blades held up very well against other blades. After working against Del Tins, various makers rapier blades, MRLs, and an Atrim blade, my blade was slightly rough on the forte edge, but with no burrs. The COP area remained very clean. There was one slight nick halfway up the blade from one of the hits to a buckler. Generally speaking, the other blades seemed a little worse for the wear than did the Armart blade. Jim's blade fared similarly, but he put it aside after a few clashes with an MRL practice blade with a fat 3/16 (approx) edge.
Both of our blades were order unsharpened rather than blunt. Some parts of the edge still looked a little too sharp for safety and blade lifespan, so we took a belt sander to the edge to even things up, but tried not to take too much off. My edge ended up about the same width as the unsharpened Atrim blade I worked against, which looks about .5-.75mm.
All in all, I was very pleased with the performance of the blade, as well as the handling of the sword.
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