Cavalry sabre with a parabolic blade

[fernando]

Originally Posted by kronckew

... if you cut at someone with one of those flankers the sweet spot wouldn't contact until the day after!

Not if you use the inner side of the blade ... you know, like a sickle

[kronckew]

falx or rhompheia!

found on an ancient roman digital slr's memory card

or my
ginunting?

or my salyan khukuri


when i cut with them, i check to see what fell apart a half hour ago, then cut where they would have been now.

[Hotspur]

in my files, Russian?

[kronckew]

that looks like it's be good for instances of someone sneaking up behind you. you would have to be careful you don't stab yourself in the back!

[fernando]

Originally Posted by kronckew

that looks like it's be good for instances of someone sneaking up behind you. you would have to be careful you don't stab yourself in the back!

Your damned right
From the same link abovementioned:

In AS ARMAS e OS BARÕES by Eduardo Nobre, he cites the blades of some local cavalry sabres of the (XIX century) period in which, when the horseman pulled it back for a stroke, the blade point touched the opposite shoulder ... if you know what i mean.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Hotspur

in my files, Russian?

Yes, present in a thread familiar to this one:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17929

[Hotspur]

Originally Posted by fernando

Yes, present in a thread familiar to this one:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17929

Very true. I first collected the image October 12th, 2007 (or even earlier on an older drive) so I am sure I picked it up somewhere and the image fairly widely recirculated since then. I cannot recall where I first saw it. Celtan added it here in 2008, referenced by Jim in the thread you link.

It was on my old Windows Millenium drive. That reminds me I need to transfer about a year's worth of indexing from a flash drive.

Cheers

GC