one of my subscribers asked me about
Conan's Atlantean sword and that's
something that I've been wanting to make
a video about anyway so if I could make
a functional version out of this in real
life what would I do first off this
actually happens to be one of my
favorite sanity swords I've always liked
the way it looks and aesthetically
there's nothing wrong with it I really
like the the bronze guard and pommel the
way that looks
is really aesthetically appropriate for
the character just looks like a
barbarian sword and it's also quite
pretty I mean the decorations on the
garden pummel the the really dark bronze
looks great kind of old looking off
string wrapped suits it really well and
there's a lot to like about it really
there are just two things that I would
personally change for one I would make
it thinner it's a bit of a fatso and it
really doesn't need to be it's also
reflected in the weight here is a
reproduction made by Albion of the
Atlanteans or which is identical to the
original movie prop in dimensions the
only difference is that they made it out
of functional high carbon steel as
opposed to the 440 stainless steel which
is not functional for a sword and they
made it a little bit lighter a lot much
but a little bit and still it weighs 3.5
kilograms or 7 pounds and 12 ounces now
to put that into perspective here is a
historical two-handed great sword which
weighs two point seven eight kilograms
or six pounds and two ounces so this one
weighs a lot less and this is actually
to scale you see how much larger and
longer the historical great sword is so
you get a great sword for less weight
than that you can imagine how much more
useful that is in a fight and how much
easier that is to move because of how
much better the mass is distributed so
that could be done in several ways you
could make the palm of hallow which was
done
many historical sorts as well which by
the way also debunks the common
misconception that the pummel is there
as a counterweight it really isn't for
the most part and the guard could also
potentially be made hollow and still
thick enough to be reasonably strong
secondly and most importantly you can
save a lot of weight by making the blade
thinner it doesn't need to be super
thick in order to be strong and durable
and also you can improve the balance
quite a bit by giving it a distal taper
like on this reproduction of a
historical Viking sword you can see that
the blade is quite a bit thicker near
the guard than it is near the point so
that's a very common feature of
historical sword design which makes them
handle that much better and be much more
effective in combat and before you say
but look at him he's so strong he can
wield a heavy sword no problem well he
can but that doesn't mean it's ideal I
mean it would still be a lot more
exhausting to use and it would just
would feel clumsy it's hard to express
that if you haven't handled
reproductions of swords if you have a
you know better
reproduction compared to like a cheapo
fancy thing you feel it you really do
the lighter more well-balanced sword
feels lively in the hand that is a good
way to put it it just it feels like it
wants to move on its own almost it
doesn't require as much effort and you
can perform techniques much more
effectively so that's one thing making
it lighter is not technically strictly
absolutely necessary to make it
functional but it would be a noticeable
improvement the other thing is making it
longer why the heck is this thing so
short and stubby is quite weird
especially when you compared to the
great sword that is lighter this would
make it again less effective in combat
than it could be now if this was
designed as a one-handed sword that
would be fine I mean even for a 100 saw
in fact it is a little bit on the short
side and reach in historical combat is
very much important so I would just
scale it up too long
or length because it is clearly intended
as a longsword and so why not make it
more suitable for that purpose longer
handle means more leverage more control
more agility more power you know a lot
of improvements really and a longer
blade again means more reach more power
etc it's just it's got plenty of
advantages so there's really no reason
to have this super stuffy version so
this in my opinion would look better
perform better and yeah I really like
this one actually I might even go
further and put the paring hooks and the
leather wrap on the false edge like on a
great sword so you can grab it there now
he does that anyway he grabs that
ricasso in order to make him more
controllable not really needed since
it's also got these two bronze strips
which also look quite nice so this is
literally all I would do just make it
longer
lighter relative to its size and there
you go perfectly good sword and that's
really all I've got to say about it so
thanks for watching
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