Thrand and Kati compare Bronze age swords made by Neil Burridge in extreme thrusting and cutting test! Thrand test the Canaanite Khopesh, the famed Ewart Park ( Leaf shaped sword ) and the Naue II ( Straight style sword ) on extreme thrusting target equal the heavy raw hide or hardened leather armor then against two layers of coarse tightly woven linen over ballistic gel. So sit back grab an ale, wine or mead and enjoy this extreme test to find out which is the most effective!
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Thanks for posting this. A+
Really wish I could afford stuff like this. So I can do stuff like this.
If you want to make a test comparison of a steel sword and bronze sword, find a steel sword that's as close to the shape of one of your bronze swords as possible.
I find it absolutely hilarious that you grunt after you thrust and all action has be done. It doesn't make any sense.
These Bronze swords are just so lovely and the video shows some very interesting results. Great video Thrand!
Maybe under stress that shape of blade(khopesh) was not as durable? Is there any way to test durability of the blades? Not on materials but actually blade against blade? Who knows why they abandoned that design or why it was not adopted by all bronze age cultures , maybe it had some drawbacks on a real fight scenario or it was not suited for tight formations? What do you guys think. Cause for sure people where not stupid , if it was clearly the best blade of the era should be at least more wide spread?
0 dislikes so far. Awesome!
Khopech surprised me, with that effectiveness. Although short even by bronze age standards. Thank you for this I mainly think of medieval European, the fascinating thing here is that these weapons evolved independently.
Cool.
I've been wondering for a while… what's that hat you wear called? I wear a cap on backwards to keep my hair out of my eyes like you do, but I don't necessarily need the bill.
i Love Khopeshes, it's a great sword for cutting and it looks excellent on your modern tactical military gear, too.
great video
Hey man, another great video! You don't see a whole lot of info out there on the old bronze blades, so it's really cool to see such intensive tests! Also, the video quality has gotten really, really good lately. I can remember when you guys were still recording with a low res camera and using the onboard audio to get sound. Might want to get some lapel mics though, just in case another bird tries to steal your thunder, hahah!
Speaking of bronze, I've always been curious about early plate armour. I know plate was largely replaced by maille around the start of the middle ages and that stayed the primary armour form right up until the late 13th/early 14th century. But before then, we had bronze and iron plate armour being used by many of the civilisations of the time, things like the Greek muscle cuirass and the Roman Lorica Segmentata.
Do you think you guys would be able to see how reproductions of these armours would function against eachother? And against weapons of the time? Not sure if anybody out there does period-accurate reproductions of these armours, there's plenty of modern repo's done in steel but I don't think those would be very accurate. If you could get your hands on some proper bronze and iron armour, I think that'd make for a really cool video!
Either way, looking forward to your next video. Love the stuff you guys do!
A fucking leaf
Put it against the seax.
FYI – Ewert is pronounced ' You-ert ' ( the -ert sounding like in the name Bert), not 'Eee-wart' .
Just like a Ewe ( female sheep)
love the film very professional, still leaves me in ore how well these blades work in the hands of some one who know there stuff cheers Neil
Very excellent test Thrand! to me,,, being deadly does not lye in the weapon but in the Man.
I'd love to see more tests done with the Khopesh. I've always found it to be an interesting sword.
Kopesh vs Langseax please