Wide sabers

Elheru Aran
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Wide sabers Jun 24, 2013 14:41:26 GMT

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Post by Elheru Aran on Jun 24, 2013 14:41:26 GMT

Lately my eye has been drawn by pretty specimens like this...

(to view pictures in full, right click and hit "view image". These are all from the Art of Swords tumblr, btw; a great little site. Bookmark it if you haven't already!)

This probably started when I handled an original '96 Light Cav saber. A thing of beauty indeed.

If you think about it, it takes some skill to pull something like this off... a broad blade like this has the potential to be quite bulky and awkward, but properly balanced and tapered, it can be an absolutely devastating cutter.

So, come on, post your favorites and experiences!

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Kilted Cossack
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Wide sabers Jun 24, 2013 15:08:41 GMT

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Post by Kilted Cossack on Jun 24, 2013 15:08:41 GMT

Nice!

The top saber would seem to conform to Zablocki's Type IIC, of which he writes, "Sabres No. IIc are convenient for swinging cuts from the elbow (the splitting blow) and were used only for fighting on foot."

www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/zablocki_abstract.htm

The second to last---is that a nimcha?

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Wide sabers Jun 27, 2013 13:35:26 GMT

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Post by randomnobody on Jun 27, 2013 13:35:26 GMT

How did I miss this?

A good number of those are to my liking.

The third a tad gaudy, though. :oops:

That one definitely looks like a nimcha. I thought the guard looked kinda funny compared to ones I'd seen (I don't really go looking but they pop up a lot) so I looked up Oriental Arms' gallery on them and found numerous with the same, so I'm going with it, even if most blades tend to be slimmer. A nicely decorated model, at that.

oriental-arms.com/search.php?q=n ... 8&s.y=-581

That last one I was just looking at over on Akaal Arms, anybody got $4950 for a worthy cause?

akaalarms.com/portfolio/large-19 ... ms-dealer/

Going to have to look into that blog; I think I've stumbled over it before but never taken any note because they weren't selling, just showing other people's pictures...

For the sake of contributing something new, I came across this guy while browsing Oriental Arms just now: oriental-arms.com/item.php?id=5618

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Post by Elheru Aran on Jun 24, 2013 14:41:26 GMT

Post by Kilted Cossack on Jun 24, 2013 15:08:41 GMT

Post by randomnobody on Jun 27, 2013 13:35:26 GMT

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