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Old 23rd December 2018, 07:21 PM   #17
Jim McDougall
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Exactly! Geometry, math whatever, and not sure if my engineering skills'(?) are up to the aqueduct thing. But the thing is, this incredible curve and this scabbard seem to me to be daunting...…..this ain't exactly 'quick draw' !!
I think of the horsemen in the Caucusus, and that they wore their shashkas with blade up, so that the sabre as withdrawn would go directly to the slashing draw cut. in one sweep.

Regardless, in field 'innovation' men could pretty much make anything work as best as it could. The main axiom in consideration is that there are really no hard and fast rules set for these matters, and the intrigue is in studying the variations and incidental cases.
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