It was apparently an easy job for a blacksmith to take the Scythe Blade off and re align the connection for a shaft so that the blade became a spear like extension . That is apparent in English and Polish examples of this weapon. Making a sword would be more complicated ...perhaps that is why not so many sword examples exist...
Actually post 37 shows the different stages a scythe blade needed to go through to do the work...
Regards, Peter Hudson.
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