Chinese Dao as the common ancestor of SE Asian Dha / Darb

[~Alaung_Hpaya~]

Originally Posted by Mark

Is this the style you mean?


The grip on this one looks like what you are describing, but the blade tip is not upswept:

I'm talking about about the first one and about the blade not the grip .

Sorry I'm still getting my head around the terminology . I meant the width of the blade narrows as it approaches the flared ferrule ( which acts abit I guess like like a false tsuba )