Insights on unusual kampilan?

[Ian]

Originally Posted by SwordsAntiqueWeapons

Here is an interesting one you can draw lines through Ian, a short curved type with provenance, captured 1898.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=santa

Tempted to link others but I think it is against the rules to self link to my own items.....

Gavin:

Thanks for the information.

Unfortunately simply drawing a straight line down a slightly curved blade does not capture the symmetry of the blade correctly, and over-estimates the departure from linearity of the hilt.

I've reproduced the picture from your previous post below, with a line drawn from the midpoint of the tip to the midpoint of the forte right before the wooden guard, then extrapolated that through to the hilt. As noted, the extrapolated line may over-estimate the degree to which the terminal part of the hilt is uptilted. As drawn, this one has the characteristics of a Type I hilt.

However, if we were to draw a curved line that traced the mid-point of the blade at each point down its curved length (difficult to do digitally with Photosphop), then we might get something closer to a Type II hilt.

So I'm not sure which is the correct interpretation for this one.

Ian.