Mar 052013
Triumph of form over function:
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It is simply two metal blades held apart by nylon spacers and hooked up to a stun gun. While definitely impressive looking, as a *sword* it would be a disaster. Two blades like that simply would not cut worth a damn.
An improvement – an expensive improvement – would be to sandwich a non-conductive ceramic core between conductive thin metal blades, forming a single-edged solid blade of composite construction with a sharp ceramic edge. The tip of the blade would remain pretty much non-functional for stabbing, since the metal “prongs” would probably have to not have ceramic between them, but it’d be useful for chopping.