Montagnard Dha Sources

[Antonio Cejunior]

Originally Posted by Andrew

Antonio, I'm not aware of any currently offered for sale, but I picked one up from eBay, and one from Susan Stem at Tribal Trappings.

Ian's presentation was excellent. In the interim, Antonio, here are are some examples:

From Oriental-Arms' sold page:
http://www.oriental-arms.co.il/item.php?id=711

Here's the one I purchased from Tribal Trappings:


Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Thank you
I was wondering if it would be possible for you, not rush of course, to post the one you picked up from Ebay.

I may sound sacrilegeous but I was so impressed with a that sword you have that I would appreciate some photos of the blade and the handle plus the specs. Thank you in advance.

Meanwhile my Aranyik Dha has been differentially heat treated and it is now under mounting process. Unfortunately my designer side prevails when it comes to mountings, also because the mounter is not native to rattan work.

Here is the blade. I'll be doing the final polishing and etching.

[RhysMichael]

Originally Posted by Antonio Cejunior

Meanwhile my Aranyik Dha has been differentially heat treated and it is now under mounting process. Unfortunately my designer side prevails when it comes to mountings, also because the mounter is not native to rattan work.

Here is the blade. I'll be doing the final polishing and etching.

I have to agree with Andrew I really enjoyed Ian's presentation.
Your blade is really looking nice, As to the mountings there are a number of options other than rattan, One that I have always liked is owned by Mark and has metal mesh on the handle

Or another idea is one on an older feeling dha

Those are just a couple, there are many more options as well

[Antonio Cejunior]

Originally Posted by RhysMichael

I have to agree with Andrew I really enjoyed Ian's presentation.
Your blade is really looking nice, As to the mountings there are a number of options other than rattan, One that I have always liked is owned by Mark and has metal mesh on the handle

Or another idea is one on an older feeling dha

Those are just a couple, there are many more options as well

I'm looking forward for reading Ian's presentation.
I presume the metal mesh is much more difficult to make...
Lucky Mark
Thanks. The Aranyik blade was purchased at Lung Som's.
The article is here http://www.arscives.com/bladesign/visit.aranyik.htm

Cheers.

[Mark]

Hi, Antonio! That blade is gorgeous!

I only ever had one Montagnard-style blade, but with a completely atypical the handle. I never put it on the site and now it has passed out of my hands. Andrew and Ian have some very nice ones, as you will see.

The mesh on my dha's grip actually doesn't look too hard to do. Here is a close-up of another handle that uses a similar technique:

I will post some close-ups of mine as well.

There are also various things that you can do with bone and ivory, but the grip would not be very good. I rather like the way shagreen is used on some Shan-style dha:

They usually have brass or copper nails holding the shagreen on, which are placed in a pattern and work rather well as finger-grips. JT (RhysMichael) has some very nice ones, of which this is my favorite:

This one is Ian's

[Antonio Cejunior]

Originally Posted by Mark Bowditch

Hi, Antonio! That blade is gorgeous!

I only ever had one Montagnard-style blade, but with a completely atypical the handle. I never put it on the site and now it has passed out of my hands. Andrew and Ian have some very nice ones, as you will see.

The mesh on my dha's grip actually doesn't look too hard to do. Here is a close-up of another handle that uses a similar technique:

I will post some close-ups of mine as well.

There are also various things that you can do with bone and ivory, but the grip would not be very good. I rather like the way shagreen is used on some Shan-style dha:

They usually have brass or copper nails holding the shagreen on, which are placed in a pattern and work rather well as finger-grips. JT (RhysMichael) has some very nice ones, of which this is my favorite:

This one is Ian's

Thanks Mark

I suppose you are talking about the Lung-Som blade. Had to do some changes in the shape. You know me...

Thank you for the different pictures you are posting here on Montagnard and the handles and mesh.
You know I am not the best of craftsmen But these are awesome blades!!!
Thank you very much my friend.
Haven't heard from you.
Take care and bless you.

Antonio

[Mark]

Here are close-ups of the mesh handles, showing a few different ways of making the pattern. The first is a close-up of the handle of my dha which RysMichael had originally posted. The second is from a dha essentially the same as the mesh-handled one that I previously posted. You can see three patterns of weaving, as well as the way it is finished off at the ends.

[ariel]

Here is my Montagnard

[Antonio Cejunior]

Originally Posted by Mark Bowditch

Here are close-ups of the mesh handles, showing a few different ways of making the pattern. The first is a close-up of the handle of my dha which RysMichael had originally posted. The second is from a dha essentially the same as the mesh-handled one that I previously posted. You can see three patterns of weaving, as well as the way it is finished off at the ends.

Thanks Mark
It is quite intricade work beyond my capacity. I very much admire the ingeniosity od the mesh. Most grateful my friend.
I thought from the smaller earlier picture that it would be some kind of regular ray skin type of mail, little flatterned spheres linked together in some other ingeniuous way.

Grazzie tanti