Cold Steel Talwar Sword

Description

For over a century, most of the Western world has remained convinced that a point-oriented, thrusting sword is superior to an edge-oriented cutting sword. There are, however, a Series of books by D.A. Kinsley that cast a skeptical light on this running debate. Kinsley recounts numerous incidents (collected form battlefields throughout the British Empire) where cutting swords proved equal, if not superior, to thrusting swords in deciding the outcome of a skirmish. Cold Steel PRESIDENT, Lynn C. Thompson was encouraged by Mr. Kinsley s ideas and after considering all the evidence decided to produce one of the best cutting swords ever devised: the Indian Talwar. Taking a cue from the most experienced Indian Swordsmen of the past, and the Pindari Chief of old, Amir Khan, Lynn has combined a strongly curved British light cavalry blade with its distinctive hatchet point (wider near the tip than the Forte) with a traditionally styled Indian hilt. The blade is hand forged from tough 1055 carbon