The real-world target is humans, and flesh is not stiff like a hard plastic bottle - a thick tip will easily penetrate deeply. The thick bottles favour thin blades, since the plastic is stiff (as long as the blade isn't so thin as to be too flexible). I'm not calling this a rigorous test, mind you, just reporting what I experienced Notably, we have some pretty thick plastic bottles where I'm from which showcase the difference best a katana may do some damage but winds up just knocking them over, whereas a wilkinson blade passes clean through without upsetting the target. Bottom line, a thick hatchet tip helps cutting, but just isn't good at thrusting. The cavalry swords did pretty well against cuirassers. The katana tip will be more likely to survive on a battlefield with lots of armour being worn The katana has, in theory, the advantage that you can put a lot of strength into a thrust on a braced target, but the martial utility of that is limited.
I'd say that mid/late 19th century British cavalry swords (cut-thrust designs) thrust better than katana against soft targets - a bit narrower and thinner (about 22mm by 3.5mm). Pipe-backs or toledos would probably do better in a thrust, but I like the versatility of the wilkinson blade. I have an 1845 light cav, but the blade style on it was used throughout the century. I'm not calling this a rigorous test, mind you, just reporting what I experienced. Also because even with no curvature the tip is off-line, clean thrusts are more difficult. The heavy was often ground to a spear point, because many troopers didn't buy into de Marchants cut-centric style, but both are fundamentally cut-oriented weapons.Īnyhow, it's the hatchet tip profile and the relatively rapid increase in cross-section that make for large resistance in penetration and relegate these swords (as well as the katana, where the delta is more pronounced due to extra thickness) to being mediocre thrusting swords at best. Albeit the sabres are thinner at the tip (but not exactly flexible). They are all hatchet points, is what I mean.
The katana tip will be more likely to survive on a battlefield with lots of armour being worn the extra stoutness doesn't help it against soft targets. What kind of targets did you try them on? What sabres are you comparing the katana with? Spear-pointing them improves their thrusting capability, but it's still poor even with that improvement.īut spear point sabres deliver thrusts that are completely effortless by comparison. About 1.5" wide, 1mm thick - thin flexible slicers. The tips of both the light and heavy are nothing like katana tips. If you're talking about the light one, then that has a similar tip profile to a katana and was noted as a poor thrusting sword, although that was also due to strong curvature. Topics on the subject are not prohibited, but readers are encouraged to link to this topic explaining the official stance. We do not condone the modern-day use of swords as actual weapons.
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