A Nice Takouba just finished on eBay....Euro blade?

zalmoxis · 19th October 2006, 09:02 PM

There are no swords with real fullers in Africa. Every time a sword has fullers for instance on the Nimcha swords they are European. There is no indication they discovered the use of fullers. In 19th century or earlyer the Tuareg swords would have been in large percentage European, see Spring and others. The use of the usual 3 fullers on the blade is imitation and tradition and not REAL use like in European perception to make the blade lighter.

19th October 2006, 09:02 PM	#10
zalmoxis Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: GA USA Posts: 76	There are no swords with real fullers in Africa. Every time a sword has fullers for instance on the Nimcha swords they are European. There is no indication they discovered the use of fullers. In 19th century or earlyer the Tuareg swords would have been in large percentage European, see Spring and others. The use of the usual 3 fullers on the blade is imitation and tradition and not REAL use like in European perception to make the blade lighter.