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Gustav · 17th January 2018, 01:54 PM

There are two twisted bars on each side. The blade as end product is much to wide and long for the size of these bars - so while forging out in the length and width the control over the appearance of twisted pattern was lost. We see it the best towards the tip of the blade - always the trickiest place to control the pattern.

Normally there would be more bars on such a blade, like on ex-Gavin's Barong (or yataghans)

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...istcore+barong

and/or the bars would have been kept narrow

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...istcore+barong

The smith simply wasn't experienced well enough to work with twisted bars and didn't know the relation between the size of the bars before the forging process (let alone some tricks like increasing the amplitude of the twists) and the blade at the end of process.

That could be a hint to a slightly later date of production or/and a more "provincial" place of production.

17th January 2018, 01:54 PM	#21
Gustav Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,196	There are two twisted bars on each side. The blade as end product is much to wide and long for the size of these bars - so while forging out in the length and width the control over the appearance of twisted pattern was lost. We see it the best towards the tip of the blade - always the trickiest place to control the pattern. Normally there would be more bars on such a blade, like on ex-Gavin's Barong (or yataghans) http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...istcore+barong and/or the bars would have been kept narrow http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...istcore+barong The smith simply wasn't experienced well enough to work with twisted bars and didn't know the relation between the size of the bars before the forging process (let alone some tricks like increasing the amplitude of the twists) and the blade at the end of process. That could be a hint to a slightly later date of production or/and a more "provincial" place of production. Last edited by Gustav; 17th January 2018 at 02:08 PM.