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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Just saw the thread. Coffee etch is the latest rage in knifemaking. Before that it was "baked on brown or black lacquer". I find ferric to be as good as one gets on wootz and some old wootz etches... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Jens, On that Khanjar with a nilgai head....can you show a larger photo of the weld junction between the body of the blade and the tip? I have several 1900's all metal daggers with ram heads and... |
Forum: Keris Swap Forum
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![]() Hello All, Does anyone have a copy of "Ensiklopedi Keris" by Bambang Harsrinuksmo they wish to sell? Yours, Ric |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() Wonderful. Makes me want to go to Indonesia. Has the "Bab Pandameling Duwung" been published? Do you think this would ever happen? Yours, Ric |
Forum: European Armoury
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
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Richard Furrer
![]() https://www.fws.gov/lab/ivory_natural.php Not Walrus to be sure. As Philip said..telling Asian Elephant from African ...trickier. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Ariel, I sent a private message, but it is 3179 May Road Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Ric |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Absolutely Ariel, The Professors I work with have just added some new analytical tools and we can do better testing now than in the past. I will tell you what we discover. Let me know everything... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Richard Furrer
![]() Ariel, No need to notch the ingot...it folds at the top on its own during forging...for two reasons. One being that unless high forces are delivered it is the natural tendency for metals to move more... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Richard Furrer
![]() I have seen them in India in rural museums. I will try to located the photos. They were massive in scale and thickness. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Richard Furrer
![]() That was my second project with NOVA and also the second time with the same production company (headed by Peter Yost of Pangloss Films). The project had a benefactor/angel in Chicago and the armor... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,061
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Richard Furrer
![]() It is common to polish the edges and etch the center. I have seen this on many pieces. The fact that you can clearly see the patterned core extending into the edges and into the tip is not something... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 9,512
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![]() Steve, I have a very good idea as to technique for both the patterns, but it would be techniques I would use and may not have been theirs. I'll give it a try later this year when I have the time. I... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 9,512
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Richard Furrer
![]() Archer, Just saw the thread...quite a complex bit of welding there. The difference I see in this to other "orange section" welding (the round converging part) is that the center has a coil or jelly... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 26
Views: 12,580
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Richard Furrer
![]() Hello All, Does anyone have more information on the German/Bhutanese smiths working together? Yours, Ric |
Forum: Swap Forum
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Views: 2,499
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Richard Furrer
![]() Thank you to those who have responded. I have located a few and will continue to search. Yours, Ric |
Forum: Swap Forum
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Views: 2,499
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Richard Furrer
![]() Hello All, If you have a Bhutanese made blade for sale due let me know. I am making a study of these blades for the next year or so. Yours, Ric Furrer Blacksmith |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 20,022
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Richard Furrer
![]() I have been away for bit and very happy to hear of this publication. Jens, I look forward to my copy. Do you suggest any other books? Any other titles I may have missed of late? Ric |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 228
Views: 29,976
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Richard Furrer
![]() Jim, I have been smithing for 26? years and making crucible steel for some 15-17 now and it may be that I have closed my mind to ideas and techniques outside what I currently use....I am not the gate... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Richard Furrer
![]() Roland, Then why were so many swords made from that material? Pretty only? Ric |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I have not tested any old chevron welded blades, but have made a few Ariel (web search my name "furrer" and chevron for photo of one blade from 1999) and they bend 90 degrees without breaking (have... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 22,972
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Richard Furrer
![]() I agree..sometimes hard to tell, but they have some guidelines here: http://www.fws.gov/lab/ivory_guide.php One would think that the powers that be would utilize them. I'd hate to see multi thousand... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 96
Views: 22,972
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Richard Furrer
![]() Sorry for the question, but.......... What do they define "ivory" as? I meet folk who say only elephant is ivory..others who say any tooth or tusk is ivory from any animal...be that... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 27
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