Forum: European Armoury
19th July 2019, 03:33 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
7th July 2019, 11:30 PM
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Not necessarily to hammer anything. Various...
Not necessarily to hammer anything. Various spikes on polearms have a lot of potential use for hooking, pulling, parrying, etc. This is easily big enough for that kind of thing.
Having it flush...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th May 2019, 03:10 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th May 2019, 07:16 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th May 2019, 01:56 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th April 2019, 03:24 PM
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The long slender one looks like an East African...
The long slender one looks like an East African spear butt (as used by the Maasai and nearby peoples). For some examples of such butts, see http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21630 and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th April 2019, 01:58 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th April 2019, 02:27 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th February 2019, 06:06 AM
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Tanzania or Kenya, probably.
I have a...
Tanzania or Kenya, probably.
I have a similar head and tail, which came with a human-figure-carved centre wood section - a fancy tourist version of the classic East African three-piece spear. Much...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd February 2019, 04:05 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th December 2018, 05:03 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
5th August 2018, 03:12 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st May 2018, 04:15 AM
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Views: 11,879
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th May 2018, 10:54 PM
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While the profile is similar to the Australian...
While the profile is similar to the Australian club in the drawing, the 3D shape doesn't look very Australian to me.
From the caption in Partington, club #3 looks like a boomerang-club to me, a...
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Forum: European Armoury
10th February 2018, 10:09 PM
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Just the overall appearance. The details of the...
Just the overall appearance. The details of the construction do match what one might see on Indian replicas (but I wouldn't expect the screw), but they match the real thing (i.e., 18th/19th century...
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Forum: European Armoury
10th February 2018, 01:46 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th February 2018, 09:58 AM
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I can't tell for sure from the description...
I can't tell for sure from the description whether he gives the centre of percussion (i.e., the centre of percussion as defined by all non-sword people) or the closest-to-the-tip node of vibration...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th February 2018, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 15
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For bats and rackets, the centre of percussion...
For bats and rackets, the centre of percussion certainly contributes to the sweet spot. For swords where the rotation is about the grip (or at least, the wrist), like sabre styles where the sword is...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st February 2018, 09:45 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th January 2018, 09:43 AM
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Views: 12,112
Tribal forging on Sarawak:
...
Tribal forging on Sarawak:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sarawak;_a_native_Kalabit_smithy._Photograph._Wellcome_V0037410.jpg
Split wooden stick as tongs, stone anvil, stone hammers.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th January 2018, 01:48 AM
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Mostly. As Battara said, there was iron mining...
Mostly. As Battara said, there was iron mining and smelting in the Philippines. For some brief details, see http://intersections.anu.edu.au/monograph1/mintz_metals.html
Traditional smelting was in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th January 2018, 05:40 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st January 2018, 07:41 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 11,516
Local usage? After all, terms like this (khanda,...
Local usage? After all, terms like this (khanda, tulwar, shamshir, gladius, kilij, etc.) mean, generically, "sword" in their languages of origin. It's only in foreign languages (like English) that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd December 2017, 11:42 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd December 2017, 03:36 AM
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Replies: 69
Views: 56,208
"Who?" is the difficult question.
As you...
"Who?" is the difficult question.
As you noted, while it takes high temperatures to forge weld iron, it's otherwise low-tech:
A hole in the ground, charcoal, a blower, a rock as an anvil and a...
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