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Post by 28shadow on Jun 29, 2017 3:02:32 GMT
What reproductions (if any) are there of Mongolian Sabers? My interest has been piqued since watching the Netflix Marco Polo series.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Jun 29, 2017 4:40:35 GMT
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Post by Jayhawk on Jun 29, 2017 11:50:07 GMT
Timo is right...they are carrying Chinese daos. Fun series.
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Post by randomnobody on Jun 29, 2017 20:40:30 GMT
Nothing to offer on the subject, but checked the thread out to see what I might learn, and I have to say that Fabri Amorum is something I could really get into. Pity it's a blunt... Otherwise, my only offering was an ignorant assumption that the show in question was probably using Chinese swords, rather than "Mongolian" swords, because "close enough" and most viewers (99%, I'd wager) wouldn't know any different. Seems that's actually the case...
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Jun 29, 2017 20:49:09 GMT
I don't remember the show well enough to remember for sure whether the dao were anachronistic or not, but my memory tells me there were some oxtail dao which would be anachronistic.
Plenty of dao work. Blades can be short or long, straight (completely), almost straight, moderately curved, clipped-point, regular point, long slender point. Disc guards, 4-lobed guards. Don't recall seeing any cup guards that old, so flat discs (a small rim is fine, but not a cup-rim).
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Post by Jayhawk on Jun 29, 2017 20:54:45 GMT
Definitely some oxtail daos and if my memory is correct there was a rather dadao-ish looking sword in one episode.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Jun 29, 2017 21:09:37 GMT
Dadaoish is fine. There are Song swords with blades that look like dadao blades (fairly straight, and narrower than a typical Republican dadao, but quite dadaoish), complete with ring pommels. I've only seen them with one-handed grips.
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Post by Jayhawk on Jun 30, 2017 22:10:42 GMT
Interesting! Thanks Timo!
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