Sword of Roven, Circa 1400, Signature Series
Introducing the Signature Series by Windlass! Some of their all-time favourites, reissued by Windlass Steelcrafts® with several upgrades! The blade has improved distal taper, making the sword livelier and quicker. The scabbard now has a wooden core underneath the leather exterior. The grip features leather that is dimpled using a historically authentic "wet-wrap" process, during which fine cord is tightly wrapped around a wet leather grip. When it's dry, the cord is removed and the leather is left attractively indented and provides improved texture and grip. More information...
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Sword of Roven, Circa 1400, Signature Series
Despite having several names - War Sword, Great Sword, Long Sword and even Two-Hand Sword (thus causing some confusion among collectors) - the large sword was quite a popular weapon. This sword has great length giving it both reach and power. As the length increased the velocity increased substantially. However, with the addition of the long ricasso, the sword became even more formidable. The ricasso allowed the sword to be gripped past the guard, thus shortening the sword and allowing it to be used as short spear. This made a thrust more solid since the blade is held securely at two separate points.
This version of this sword is as formidable weapon as the originals. The Sword of Roven has a high carbon steel blade tempered to a tough spring, the grip is cord-wrapped wood wrapped with brownish black leather. The pommel and guard are steel.
- Comes complete with leather scabbard. This is an interesting sword type that belongs in all collections of swords.
- Blade Distal Taper: 2.38 mm
- Material: 1075 High Carbon Steel
- Overall length 121 cm
- Blade length 95.5 cm
- Length of crossguard 25.2 cm
- Blade width at crossguard 47.8 mm
- Blade thickness at crossguard 4.9 mm
- Length of fuller 62 cm
- Blade width 10 cm from the tip 25.1 mm
- Blade thickness 10 cm from the tip 4 mm
- Caution, razor-sharp blade!
- Length of pommel 9 cm
- Handle length 15 cm
- The centre of gravity (PoB) is 15.5 cm from the crossguard
- Sword weight 1475 g
- Sheath weight 482 g
A top-quality replica made by Windlass Steelcrafts®