Takouba with 4 fullers

blue lander · 9th December 2013, 06:21 PM

That makes perfect sense, thank you. I do appreciate that you guys are world class experts and come here to discuss exemplar blades, yet are willing to take time to educate us newbies on more mundane examples such as mine.

Two final questions on this sword: it's very flexible, like a machete. Not surprising if this was made from spring steel, but I expected a fighting sword to be a little more rigid. Are older ones this flexible, or just modern ones like mine?

Lastly, I've been going through takouba.org and I can't find any other takoubas that have a different number of fullers on each side like mine (3 on one side 4 on the other). Is this uncommon?

9th December 2013, 06:21 PM	#8
blue lander Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 456	That makes perfect sense, thank you. I do appreciate that you guys are world class experts and come here to discuss exemplar blades, yet are willing to take time to educate us newbies on more mundane examples such as mine. Two final questions on this sword: it's very flexible, like a machete. Not surprising if this was made from spring steel, but I expected a fighting sword to be a little more rigid. Are older ones this flexible, or just modern ones like mine? Lastly, I've been going through takouba.org and I can't find any other takoubas that have a different number of fullers on each side like mine (3 on one side 4 on the other). Is this uncommon?