Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
Yesterday, 11:27 PM
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We used to call it wigglework or wiggle work a...
We used to call it wigglework or wiggle work a traditional cheap and fast metal embellishment, but don't bother trying to reference it on google. All references are swamped by other irrelevant stuff...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th May 2022, 09:21 AM
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16th May 2022, 09:52 AM
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13th May 2022, 09:35 AM
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7th May 2022, 11:19 PM
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4th May 2022, 11:00 AM
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30th April 2022, 10:05 AM
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24th April 2022, 09:41 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd April 2022, 05:57 PM
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Which is just how mine is. Alternatively one...
Which is just how mine is. Alternatively one writer (Stone?) suggests that a method of recycling a worn blade was to forge it out to twice its length, fold it over a lesser quality core and weld and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th April 2022, 09:12 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th April 2022, 07:21 PM
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Reminds me of one of my dismounted blades. One...
Reminds me of one of my dismounted blades. One suggestion from the informed is that this sort of split is an homage or reference to "Zulfiqar (Arabic: ذُو ٱلْفَقَار, romanized: Ḏū-l-Faqār, IPA:...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th April 2022, 12:54 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th April 2022, 05:15 PM
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15th April 2022, 06:02 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th April 2022, 09:31 PM
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13th April 2022, 11:36 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th April 2022, 11:33 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th April 2022, 08:31 PM
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Kukri with carved wooden scabbard.
Last of the spoils from the weekend. I have seen these on Kukri blogs and threads, and now I have one. The blade is excellent, the scabbard something I wanted for ages, but the grip plates are either...
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Forum: European Armoury
11th April 2022, 07:33 PM
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A Western style dagger
Yesterday, Sunday 10th April I went to a local militaria fair and picked up a few new (to me) items, all small and inexpensive.... A rarity nowadays and ever harder to find.
This one was one of a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2022, 11:43 AM
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Sudanese dagger
Another from the Militaria Fair yesterday. Pictures taken on my old phone. I am thinking a fairly recent example, the blade nowhere near as good as the older one I have, but better than the other two...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2022, 12:52 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th April 2022, 11:00 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th April 2022, 08:58 PM
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I seem to have bought a Sewar.
Went to a local arms and militaria fair today, and came back with a few prizes, of which this is one. I know beggar all about Indonesian weapons, but for some reason they keep ending up with me.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th April 2022, 11:30 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
4th April 2022, 03:04 PM
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This is a conversation that has gone round and...
This is a conversation that has gone round and round over many years, even on this site. It is possible that the waters have been muddied by written references to "cast blades" which in fact meant...
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