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Post by Kumdoalan on May 27, 2012 0:27:22 GMT
I made my version of the qut'luch too....
If you want, I can dig it out tonight and take a photo of it?
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Post by stickem on May 27, 2012 4:17:29 GMT
K ~ Of course the real ? on everyone's mind at this point is: Does having one of these blades handy help you get Klingon women to...ahhh... um... "fence" with you?Maybe if you mount one to the hood of your car (or starship, as the case may be) K, they will come... Live long & prosper, my friend.
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Post by Talon on May 27, 2012 4:31:05 GMT
hell yes
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 27, 2012 4:43:51 GMT
I dont have photos ready to go...but I got my cell phone here, and so give me a moment to take a photo of the blades and upload them to this site....BRB
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 27, 2012 4:50:27 GMT
A Dueling set of Klingon Qut'luch This is the same design as appeared on the TV show. I was able to see the TV prop a few times in person, and while in interesting design, I felt it too blade heavy to be a real true warrior's blade used for assassination. I felt that it still needed a lot of pointy parts to be seen as a good match to the Mk'leth with its many pointy parts, but I needed to work the design a bit to make it a smaller and faster blade in the hand. Now the TV and movie blades were all fancy with gold and silver in their handles, and that's fine, its a movie after all. But I wanted to make weapons that reflected what i felt was the truer flavor of being Klingon. I wanted the blades to be colored so as to look different than the other stuff out on the web. I also wanted the handles to be of common wood, as it seemed more fitting to me for a more realistic design of a rough warrior race that is compared to our Vikings....I wanted to makes the weapons of the battlefield, of song and lore. [update to this post: I have learned from a forum friend via Private Message that this may not be called a Qut'luch as i have thought for nearly 10 years. If this is true than thats weird...LOL I have to just say then when I was forging the weapons I have posted photos of for you here, that this other website - www.klingonimperialweaponsguild. ... ristak.htm was one of the few sites at the time with photos of the many Klingon blades i aimed to make. At that site the listed "Qut'luch" design is very much like what i had in mind for my own version. I also remember being able to see the TV prop at a sci-fi convention and it too appeared very close to my design. I have no explanation for the clear different designs with the same name? I have done a GOOGLE SEARCH over the last hr and from the websites i have found there does seem to be some confusion as to the correct design. In any case I like my own version]Attachments:
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 27, 2012 4:56:29 GMT
My own version of that blade... i drew a ton of different designs before I ended up making this one. The idea I had was to make this blade, and a few more in such a way as to suggest that they were leading the way to the Mk"leth that was Worf's favorite weapon. I wanted to have a way to show that the Mk'leth was not just a weapon that fell out of the blue, but rather it was slowly developed from a line of knife and sword designs. The important design areas of the future Mk"leth are the long curved chopping blade, the front blade-catching hook, and the finger guard. I wanted to show how each of these things found on the final Mk"leth that Worf used on the TV show was developed from earlyer blades. Attachments:
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 27, 2012 4:58:23 GMT
And one that is way out there...LOL The basic design of the Mk'leth is starting to really show now as the knife lines form more familiar outlines. The blade-catching front hook of the Mk'leth is starting to take form in this knife, as well as the finger guard. Attachments:
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 27, 2012 5:17:24 GMT
This blade turned out to be the one I like the most... Its a nasty blade but also you can see how the Mk"leth is there in its design too. Attachments:
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 27, 2012 5:19:41 GMT
The final blade design before we get to Worf's mk'leth The idea I had with this design is that the Mk'Leth started out as a knife that slowly became a short sword as the design changed over the generations. This blade is a short sword with sharp sword-type point, yet it also has the curves and blade-catching hook of Worf's Mk'Leth. Attachments:
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 27, 2012 5:28:02 GMT
This is a blade that appeared on the Klingon walls many times. In different video games it was even talked about Im told. In the story of Klingon history this design was said to be very old, going back to even before the first Bat'leth design. I never got around to it, but I did have an idea how I was going to make a few more of these where I work the design and change things to show how the large 2-handed final bat'leth design was a later version of this type of smaller blade. I was going to connect two or three of these blades via a section of wood handle much like the design I found here - www.bladesandbows.co.uk/klingon- ... 1367-p.asp. This would show people how the strange bat'leth design is a natural advancement of a basic blade design found in Klingon history. Attachments:
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Post by Talon on May 27, 2012 19:02:24 GMT
nice work ,this made me realise though,as much as i loved the klingons they're weaponry though cool to look at would be bloody awfull in a real world setting,far too many pointy bits to impede effective penetration,and once it was in it isn't comming out very easily
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 27, 2012 19:26:31 GMT
Yes, the basic concept behind Klingon weapon design has nothing to do with human weapon design trends...that was kinda behind the fascination found in the look of the Bat'leth on the Tv show. The strangeness.....the oddness....the differences.
The idea is that we never would have come up with a bat'leth design for a weapon of war, yet the Klingon people found the design perfect and fit their own image of what a weapon of war should look like.
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 28, 2012 14:10:53 GMT
I have posted a photo of my version of an indian war club and i wanted to talk about that. I made that weapon in connection to my making Klingon weapons because I felt at the time that of all the type of swords and clubs that we humans have come up with, so far only the Indian war club is the type of design that might be considered "Klingon-esque" I first saw the type of war club Im thinking of in a movie, www.bing.com/images/search?q=mov ... ORM=IDFRIR and I saw in it's outlines, and the odd placement of the blade, a design form that (to me) looked like it could be at home in the hands of a Klingon on Star Trek.
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Post by stickem on May 28, 2012 20:16:38 GMT
K ~ Interesting idea to try to put your mind into another species and try to see what they'd come up with. I admire your dedication After all, this is often what we try to do when understanding how different human cultures (e.g., Asian & European) came up with different blade designs to fit the armor & environment they find themselves in. For instance, the Filipino weapons I'm used to are good for a jungle environment where the trees make close quarters fighting necessary. In contrast, a two-handed Japanese katana is more useful in an open battlefield where you can swing it freely than it would be in an environment where your swinging range is restricted by the vegetation. And obviously when Europeans developed big plate armor, yet another blade solution evolved to stick'em in the joints where the pieces of armor meet or bash in the heavy metal with blunt trauma... and so on... Anyway, I always liked the Vulcan one Spock was swingin' 'round in Amok Time when he's gone batty during mating season: It reminds me of the pendulum on a clock swinging back and forth, as if to say, "Your time is at hand."
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Post by Kumdoalan on May 29, 2012 10:25:01 GMT
If I remember correctly, that same type of weapon turned up in the movie "The Cable Guy", in a very funny part of the movie
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Post by stickem on May 29, 2012 15:14:14 GMT
The music playing makes it epic :lol: I've actually got a Christmas ornament that plays this song: Amok Time begins about 5:30
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