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Post by Kilted Cossack on May 3, 2013 4:14:52 GMT
It's not quite like Cracker's "Another Song about the Rain" but here is yet another video about the shashka.
It's a Russian upload, but don't worry about language difficulties, because this dude is from the "show, don't tell" school. My best guess is that he's a serving cossack.
I've watched this ten or fifteen times, and I keep coming back to it. For all his silence, he shows me a lot of what I think a shashka should be.
Takes a tick over three minutes.
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Post by Onimusha on May 3, 2013 16:36:40 GMT
I'll have to find that military forum thread I stumbled on. It has a long list of video links and manuals.
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Post by Kilted Cossack on May 5, 2013 14:38:24 GMT
OK, these were my takeaways from the video.
Two different shashka types were shown. The first looks like an issue shashka: fairly straight blade. The second had a more heavily curved blade, and an entirely different scabbarding system, more traditional (for a shashka!), where the blade and most of the grip are enclosed by the scabbard.
At about 1:15 he does the flex test, both out at the tip, and down closer to the guard. Both seem to show a lot of flex. 5mm tapering to 2mm?
At about 1:30 he "tinks" the blade with his fingers. I'm not sure what that means, but I like the sound. Thin and sharp? Is that what it means?
At about 1:36 he slices the lightbulb's pull cord. He made it look easy, which to me says, "TomK would say it's pretty sharp." Sure, he held the end of the cord, but it didn't look like he pulled it tight. That was a tip cut.
Finally he showed a third shashka, scabbarded in a more Western style, with the guard entirely outside the scabbard, and what looks to be a two strap suspension system. I'll have to scour for more shots of the issue belt.
I may rename this "The Shashka Files" and try to consolidate information here, since I keep coming back to the shashka, time and again. Maybe it's just my thing, eh?
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Post by Kilted Cossack on May 5, 2013 15:03:11 GMT
Cold winter evenings, he says, led to this.
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Post by Kilted Cossack on May 5, 2013 16:04:56 GMT
Cute kids cutting competition course, followed by sparring. Followed by more cutting competition course.
American event organizers would pass out from the potential liability issues they see here.
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