When a Persian Shamshir Becomes a Malay Sundang...sort of...

[CharlesS]

Originally Posted by David R

Nice piece, could be a "rescue" of a broken blade, done back in the day of it's use. But no matter, a very nice find whatever the history.

Hi David,

I considered that this might have been a broken blade, but I really don't think so. Were it a broken blade the only thing that would need to be done would be refashioning the point. In this case far more effort than that has gone into transforming this blade.