Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
Yesterday, 02:41 AM
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Handle length
(Again, ok Im a blacksmith, ok algerian and self proclamed specialist (lol), but I still can absolutely wrong on what is coming, so only my theories... )
Well Yuri, for me, yours is clearly a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
Yesterday, 01:45 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st July 2025, 05:07 PM
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Yep mate, actually, I guess that a lot of those...
Yep mate, actually, I guess that a lot of those staight knives, are clearly from before 1830, and many things can proov that. First of all, a lot where tooken in the very few times of colonisation on...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st July 2025, 04:59 PM
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About flissas..
Hi Jim, happy that my theories find some logic to your ears ! You right when you say that the subject is wide, actually, Ive begun this book 3years ago.. finished the text part one year ago, after...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th July 2025, 02:35 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th July 2025, 07:18 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th July 2025, 04:11 AM
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As Ive just described in another post,
Those...
As Ive just described in another post,
Those swords are actually a bit close to a particular kind of short sabers used by algerian navy man in the ottoman era, or "barbary coasts" of algiers. So...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th July 2025, 02:31 AM
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THIS IS ALGERIAN :D:D:D
yeah, its me again,...
THIS IS ALGERIAN :D:D:D
yeah, its me again, juste to add some "salt" to the discussion, as we say in french... naah, I mean, I'm not categoric, and I dont want to be that pathetic algerian guy...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th July 2025, 01:24 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th July 2025, 01:09 AM
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just some more details..
In algerian cutlery, a...
just some more details..
In algerian cutlery, a different style, dont mean that the craftsman dont know the previous skill, or is going original. I mean, as for curves "flissa" daggers for exemple,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th July 2025, 12:56 AM
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Hi mates, your algerian/french blacksmith here...
Hi mates, your algerian/french blacksmith here with you !
This is what I call a "curved flissa dagger", by opposition to the straight ones, that are mostly, in my thought, real weapons. Those ones...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th July 2025, 12:19 AM
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Hi mates.
Yep this is a beautifull khodmi...
Hi mates.
Yep this is a beautifull khodmi knife. Acrtually khodmi only mean "knife" in algerian, so you can have a lot of lenght for them... those kinds are usually called "khodmi ta3 dbih", as a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th April 2025, 02:31 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th March 2024, 10:39 AM
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About algerian nimcha
Hi mates, here with you Khaled, your Algerian (France based) blacksmith, and collector to serve you (you probably read me before about bousaadi khodmi). Please pardon my poor english
Everyday,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd March 2023, 01:19 AM
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Also the three fuller are often on touareg...
Also the three fuller are often on touareg takuba, if is a reused Sword as mentioned, it can explain why they are not centered. Is it one edged or both sides are sharpened ?
For the handle, Ive...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th February 2023, 03:08 PM
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14th February 2023, 11:48 PM
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5th February 2023, 03:42 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th February 2023, 03:39 AM
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Confirmation of Algerian Bou-saadi Khodmi
Hi everyone, I'm new to the site, and only here because of that post :)
I'm an 35yr french blacksmith, with algerian descent, and I want to spread with you some of my knowledge, about crafts of my...
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