A thrusting sword gives up cutting power for reach and speed on the point. The blade is narrow, stiff and often diamond in section, and the whole thing is balanced close to the hand so it can be held out in line without your arm giving up. It is the most demanding sword shape to use well and the least forgiving to buy badly.
The blades and their hilts
Brasswake is the shortest at forty three inches overall with a thirty five and a half inch Damascus blade. Swiftcoil and Shellgrain both run forty five inches with a thirty seven and a half inch blade, the first a swept hilt in high carbon steel and the second a Spanish rapier in Damascus. Quickthorn is forty six inches overall with a thirty eight and a half inch blade. Bellcourt is the musketeer sword at forty six and a half inches with a thirty nine inch blade. Cupwarden is the longest, a cup hilt at forty seven inches with a thirty nine and a half inch blade, where the guard is a single dish rather than a cage of bars.
They sit in rapiers, next to the earlier cutting shapes in arming swords. Read display sword against battle ready before you drill with one.
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