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What is the best fencing sword?

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The world's sharpest sword is entirely dependent on the individual sword itself. However, there are many types of swords, both contemporary and ancient, that are rumored to be consistently sharper than any others. While certain swords like the katana are frequently championed above others, a truly definitive test has yet to be administered on contemporary melee weapons.

Damascus steel which is based off of wootz steel was produced in India from about 12th to 18th ccentury C.E. at which point the recipe for the steel was lost ans replicas are mostly based on speculation. swords were famed for cutting through lesser steel and were said to cut falling silk.

Most definitely the ancient Japanese Katakana(meaning sword), as they are able to cut a man (or woman) in half.

They are also some of the world longest time consuming weeks to forge one:

The authentic Japanese katakana is made from a specialized Japanese steel called "Tamahagane". The katana gets its gentle curve from quenching during forging, as it is straight prior to quenching. A process of differential tempering causes martensite to form predominantly in the edge of the blade rather than the back; as the spine has lower retained lattice strain, it cools and contracts, and the blade takes on a gently curved shape. A coating of clay mixed with ashes and a small portion of rust is applied to every surface but the edge of the blade during hardening. This provides heat insulation so that only the blade's edge will be hardened with quenching. The hardening of steel involves altering the molecular structure of that material through quenching it from a heat above 800 °C (1,472 °F) (bright red glow), ideally no higher than yellow hot. If cooled slowly, the material will break back down into iron and carbon and the molecular structure will return to its previous state. However, if cooled quickly, the steel's molecular structure is permanently altered. The reason for the formation of the curve in a properly hardened Japanese blade is that iron carbide, formed during heating and retained through quenching, has a lesser density than its root materials have separately. After the blade is forged it is then sent to be polished. The polishing takes between one and three weeks. The polisher uses finer and finer grains of polishing stones until the blade is like glass. This makes the blade extremely sharp and reduces drag making it easier to cut with. The blade curvature also adds to the cutting power.

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There should also be a Damascus sword. it was so sharp that it it can cut through rock or other sword without losing it's sharpness. it's also very flexible, so much so that it can follow the curvature of bones when cutting down a man.

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Another candidate for sharpest sword is the ancient Macuahuitl. It's an ancient Aztec weapon shaped like a sword. The Macuahuitl is made of wood, and its sides are embedded with blades made from obsidian, a volcanic glass which can be sharp on a molecular level. Obsidian is often 5 times sharper than steel, and the sharpest obsidian edges can be as thin as 3 nanometers wide. However it is debatable as to whether the macuahuiti weapon can be considered a real sword as it differs in many ways from any other sword. The blade is segmented into many small pieces, and the wood impedes it's cutting ability.

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FencingNo weapon is technically the "sharpest" sword, since they aren't meant to do damage. But, since it doesn't have an actual point, I suppose it could be seen as the sharpest out of the three. AnswerNo weapon in Fencing is sharp, as like above they aren't meant to do damage. Fencing in foil and epee is a contact sport and the action is lunge rather than slash.However, in Sabre, it is a slash motion and contact motion but the swords are not intended to injure the players. There is no "blade" but rather a long thin metal stick. Sharp?Technically none are 'sharp' however due to the nature of continually knocking the blades together; blades that are not kept in pristine condition develop metal splinters on the sides (by nature of the sports, Sabre and epee mostly) If you ran your finger down such a blade it would hurt... a lot. And metal splinters are blighters to get out, fencing blades may not be sharp, but beware holding the actual blade!
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