what were the working blades of India?

Rick · 4th December 2009, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by fernando

Hey, Rick

Doesn't this one look like mine ?
I still try and figure out what mine would be; probably a tool/weapon ... but where from

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Sorry for the hijack, KuKulz

Fernando

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Yup Fernando, quite similar in form .
I don't know if the Nepali version has a socket mounted handle .

Spiral ?

spiral · 4th December 2009, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Rick

Yup Fernando, quite similar in form .
I don't know if the Nepali version has a socket mounted handle .

Spiral ?

Sorry Fernando somehow I missed your post. I could be wrong but yours doesn't realy look like Nepalese work to my eye.

Rick the few Ive seen had ferrules on the grip rather than socketed blades.

Spiral

Henk · 4th December 2009, 07:59 PM

This piece discussed some time ago as a javanese machete has the same hilt attachment as the machete of Fernando.

Looks like an aruval. Is it after all an Indian or nepalese piece?

fernando · 5th December 2009, 06:04 PM

Hi Henk,
The wooden handle looks alike, but the socket of mine is very particular, in that it is an extension of the blade; no steps, all a smooth continuity.
Fernando

Rick · 5th December 2009, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by spiral

Sorry Fernando somehow I missed your post. I could be wrong but yours doesn't realy look like Nepalese work to my eye.

Rick the few Ive seen had ferrules on the grip rather than socketed blades.

Spiral

Thanks Spiral .
The picture was taken by my nephew who was attending a Nepali wedding .

I wasn't invited ...

Henk · 6th December 2009, 10:04 AM

Hi Fernando,

My socket is not an extension of the blade but attached to the blade and finished as was it an extension of the blade. But the weldings are vissible. It is more the similarity with the handle.
The blade looks more like an aruval.

I'm still wondering if mine is an Indian or Nepalese piece after all?

Tatyana Dianova · 6th December 2009, 05:03 PM

Presumably the pair of rice sickles from Nepal:

G. McCormack · 6th December 2009, 08:44 PM

Great thread! Nice to see all these pics of 'working blades' doing work! Serves as a good reminder- the forum is about WEAPONS not butterfly nets.

Some of those pics from that festival are really powerful- the silhouetted image of a Kora in profile see through dense mist/smoke, pretty eerie.

fernando · 6th December 2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by G. McCormack

... Nice to see all these pics of 'working blades' doing work! Serves as a good reminder- the forum is about WEAPONS not butterfly nets...

I hope that encouraging such procedure will not lead us to other grounds, like starting to post in the open the type of explicit images that are hidden in the link, which would not be the vocation of this forum ... in my humble perspective

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Study and investigation of weapons, yes; that would be what the forum is about. Not (necessarily) the culture of weapons in the theatre of crude action, other than in an unfrequent contextual support.
Of course i might be wrong, but this is the way i feel it and i had to express it.
Fernando

4th December 2009, 07:59 PM	#3
Henk Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,209	This piece discussed some time ago as a javanese machete has the same hilt attachment as the machete of Fernando. Looks like an aruval. Is it after all an Indian or nepalese piece? Attached Images

6th December 2009, 05:03 PM	#7
Tatyana Dianova Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 762	Presumably the pair of rice sickles from Nepal: Attached Images

5th December 2009, 06:04 PM	#4
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	Hi Henk, The wooden handle looks alike, but the socket of mine is very particular, in that it is an extension of the blade; no steps, all a smooth continuity. Fernando

6th December 2009, 10:04 AM	#6
Henk Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,209	Hi Fernando, My socket is not an extension of the blade but attached to the blade and finished as was it an extension of the blade. But the weldings are vissible. It is more the similarity with the handle. The blade looks more like an aruval. I'm still wondering if mine is an Indian or Nepalese piece after all?

6th December 2009, 08:44 PM	#8
G. McCormack Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 131	Great thread! Nice to see all these pics of 'working blades' doing work! Serves as a good reminder- the forum is about WEAPONS not butterfly nets. Some of those pics from that festival are really powerful- the silhouetted image of a Kora in profile see through dense mist/smoke, pretty eerie.