I've recently had the pleasure in buying this Blackfencer Velox off of Phil Swift, owner of Hema Gear Canada. He let me adopt it so I can give it a new life. Can't wait to work on it!!!
Here to hispanize the discussion again! In Spain, the training sword was long called Espada Negra ("Black Sword" due to the iron being unpolished usually) and the fighting sword was called Espada Blanca ("White Sword", because polished steel is lighter in colour). Espada Negra is the sword that is nothing but a tool, you beat the hell out of it in training, use it well, recycle it, and so forth. Espada Negra is not the romantized one. Espada Blance, however, is romanticized, and if you are using it so much that it breaks, it is usually a sign that you quarrel too much (not counting war times, of course). Many Espadas Blancas survived well after their users and you can still see them in armories across Spain. Espadas Negras, however, are something to be loved more in the way you show. Give the Black Swords new life! Keep the White Swords from losing life!
hahah i love your cut-in!!! it's so much fun to hear you chime in with other historical facts around the timeline of my topic :DDD HAHAHAHAH i love the black sword idea! many of my training sword that i made are all blackish and not polished. really cool history! i never knew about the black and white sword term, but it makes sooo much sense! So people break their black sword to say 'i trained that much to break that many sword' and all their white swords are perfectly prestine to proof 'i am a gentleman who fight with words and not swords, for my sword need not to be drawn but i will' that is like uber romantizing it..lol .
HAHA i am still reading your other commenttt! it's so intense, i love it!! OH! I just use a grinder. though i don't do it much as i am afraid of heating up the sword too mcuh, but grinder works well with those sanding pad So..kinda like what you are doing, but more faster and more violent...
Here to hispanize the discussion again! In Spain, the training sword was long called Espada Negra ("Black Sword" due to the iron being unpolished usually) and the fighting sword was called Espada Blanca ("White Sword", because polished steel is lighter in colour). Espada Negra is the sword that is nothing but a tool, you beat the hell out of it in training, use it well, recycle it, and so forth. Espada Negra is not the romantized one. Espada Blance, however, is romanticized, and if you are using it so much that it breaks, it is usually a sign that you quarrel too much (not counting war times, of course).
Many Espadas Blancas survived well after their users and you can still see them in armories across Spain. Espadas Negras, however, are something to be loved more in the way you show. Give the Black Swords new life! Keep the White Swords from losing life!
hahah i love your cut-in!!! it's so much fun to hear you chime in with other historical facts around the timeline of my topic :DDD
HAHAHAHAH i love the black sword idea! many of my training sword that i made are all blackish and not polished. really cool history! i never knew about the black and white sword term, but it makes sooo much sense!
So people break their black sword to say 'i trained that much to break that many sword'
and all their white swords are perfectly prestine to proof 'i am a gentleman who fight with words and not swords, for my sword need not to be drawn but i will'
that is like uber romantizing it..lol .
I love this because this sword cracked on my guard while sparing Phil
yooo Phil sent me the photo, RIP your 3bar saberr! i would love to fix it up if we were closer!!
Unrelated to my other comment, what's the best way to shave down the Ricasso? I have an iron file but I feel like that would take forever.
HAHA i am still reading your other commenttt! it's so intense, i love it!!
OH! I just use a grinder. though i don't do it much as i am afraid of heating up the sword too mcuh, but grinder works well with those sanding pad
So..kinda like what you are doing, but more faster and more violent...