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Post by legacyofthesword on Sept 17, 2017 4:26:14 GMT
The ones used starting at 5:20: I know the miao dao: And I've seen massively oversized dao: But I've never seen anything like those giant cleaver-like swords. Did they exist in real life, or are they a movie invention?
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Post by harrybeck on Sept 17, 2017 4:36:35 GMT
Movie crap I believe.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Sept 17, 2017 5:12:14 GMT
But I've never seen anything like those giant cleaver-like swords. Did they exist in real life, or are they a movie invention? It's some type of guillotine blade (the paper-cutting type of guillotine, not the head-cutting type). The hole near the tip is where the blade is attached to the rest. Whether historical ones were this big, I don't know, but it's possible. Maybe for paper-making or for cutting floor matting. Maybe agricultural (e.g., a chaff cutter).
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Post by jeff190 on Sept 17, 2017 8:12:24 GMT
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Sept 17, 2017 8:19:19 GMT
Via translate.google.com, So, a chaff-cutter guillotine.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Sept 17, 2017 17:31:01 GMT
Interesting. So not an actual martial arts weapon, but more of an improvised weapon (and not just a made-up movie weapon). Reminds me of a description I read of some of the weapons the Iowa militia was armed with in the Honey War of 1839:
"One private carried a plow coulter over his shoulder by means of a log chain, another had an old-fashioned sausage stuffer for a weapon, while a third shouldered a sheet iron sword about six feet long."
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