a new member in my khanda family

dralin23 · 17th August 2008, 06:43 PM

hi there all over the world...!
i will show you some pictures from my brand new "familymember".
i think it is an khanda sword from the moghul time ( 18.th. ct.??)
the bladepatern is not as usual than there are not the common spatula tip.
before the cleaning i can see many small fightingkniks at the edge.
these sword is 84cm in the total lenght. the blade is 73cm long, 5cm wide at the widest point at nearby the tip and 4cm before the hilt. the hilt is, i thnik silver covered and with flowers decorated. in the center from each flower is an small gold dot.the blade was made from an very good wootz and clear visible damascus steel. at the blade is an whole what was filled with an yellow collored metall. i don´t know if it is bras ore gold. i will proof it in the next time. if some one from the members can give me some nearer information to these sword i was very fankfull.( sorry for my poor english i hope evrey man can understand what i will say

the first picture show it in the uncleaned condition.

17th August 2008, 06:43 PM	#1
dralin23 Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 194	a new member in my khanda family hi there all over the world...! i will show you some pictures from my brand new "familymember". i think it is an khanda sword from the moghul time ( 18.th. ct.??) the bladepatern is not as usual than there are not the common spatula tip. before the cleaning i can see many small fightingkniks at the edge. these sword is 84cm in the total lenght. the blade is 73cm long, 5cm wide at the widest point at nearby the tip and 4cm before the hilt. the hilt is, i thnik silver covered and with flowers decorated. in the center from each flower is an small gold dot.the blade was made from an very good wootz and clear visible damascus steel. at the blade is an whole what was filled with an yellow collored metall. i don´t know if it is bras ore gold. i will proof it in the next time. if some one from the members can give me some nearer information to these sword i was very fankfull.( sorry for my poor english i hope evrey man can understand what i will say the first picture show it in the uncleaned condition. Attached Images