what were the working blades of India?

[spiral]

Originally Posted by Rick

Yup Fernando, quite similar in form .
I don't know if the Nepali version has a socket mounted handle .

Spiral ?

Sorry Fernando somehow I missed your post. I could be wrong but yours doesn't realy look like Nepalese work to my eye.

Rick the few Ive seen had ferrules on the grip rather than socketed blades.

Spiral

[Henk]

This piece discussed some time ago as a javanese machete has the same hilt attachment as the machete of Fernando.

Looks like an aruval. Is it after all an Indian or nepalese piece?

[fernando]

Hi Henk,
The wooden handle looks alike, but the socket of mine is very particular, in that it is an extension of the blade; no steps, all a smooth continuity.
Fernando

[Rick]

Originally Posted by spiral

Sorry Fernando somehow I missed your post. I could be wrong but yours doesn't realy look like Nepalese work to my eye.

Rick the few Ive seen had ferrules on the grip rather than socketed blades.

Spiral

Thanks Spiral .
The picture was taken by my nephew who was attending a Nepali wedding .

I wasn't invited ...

[Henk]

Hi Fernando,

My socket is not an extension of the blade but attached to the blade and finished as was it an extension of the blade. But the weldings are vissible. It is more the similarity with the handle.
The blade looks more like an aruval.

I'm still wondering if mine is an Indian or Nepalese piece after all?

[Tatyana Dianova]

Presumably the pair of rice sickles from Nepal:

[G. McCormack]

Great thread! Nice to see all these pics of 'working blades' doing work! Serves as a good reminder- the forum is about WEAPONS not butterfly nets.

Some of those pics from that festival are really powerful- the silhouetted image of a Kora in profile see through dense mist/smoke, pretty eerie.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by G. McCormack

... Nice to see all these pics of 'working blades' doing work! Serves as a good reminder- the forum is about WEAPONS not butterfly nets...

I hope that encouraging such procedure will not lead us to other grounds, like starting to post in the open the type of explicit images that are hidden in the link, which would not be the vocation of this forum ... in my humble perspective .
Study and investigation of weapons, yes; that would be what the forum is about. Not (necessarily) the culture of weapons in the theatre of crude action, other than in an unfrequent contextual support.
Of course i might be wrong, but this is the way i feel it and i had to express it.
Fernando

[Rick]

I think the ones that were posted in the forum were fine .

We don't do gore .

[spiral]

Always A shame to miss a wedding Rick.

Originally Posted by Henk

Hi Fernando,

My socket is not an extension of the blade but attached to the blade and finished as was it an extension of the blade. But the weldings are vissible. It is more the similarity with the handle.
The blade looks more like an aruval.

I'm still wondering if mine is an Indian or Nepalese piece after all?

Ive never seen such a peace before Henk, it blade smithing & bolster could be Nepalese workmanship to my eye, but the rounded handle butt doesnt seem Nepali to my eye.

India perhaps? I dont know.

Originally Posted by Tatyana Dianova

Presumably the pair of rice sickles from Nepal:

They look like sickles from Nepal to me Tatyana, I saw a women cut long grass with them as well to feed buffalo while there. I think sickles like kukri have many uses as well as rice cutting. I recall that they call them Hansiya.

spiral

Originally Posted by fernando

I hope that encouraging such procedure will not lead us to other grounds, like starting to post in the open the type of explicit images that are hidden in the link, which would not be the vocation of this forum ... in my humble perspective .
Study and investigation of weapons, yes; that would be what the forum is about. Not (necessarily) the culture of weapons in the theatre of crude action, other than in an unfrequent contextual support.
Of course i might be wrong, but this is the way i feel it and i had to express it.
Fernando

I must point out Fernando that the picutres in the link were not "hidden" as you say.

I gave warning of contents within the link. Also belive me there were photos I choose not to post of wounded & clearly distresed animals.

I too do not want this or for that matter other forums I freqent to be forums of gore either.

I could have cropped the photos I posted here to just show the tools/weapons in them , but somehow that looses so much context when it comes to these enthnographic weapons.

I am sorry if my warning with the link wasnt explicit enough & you saw something you would rather not, that certanly wasnt my intention.

I thought about what I posted on each forum & gratuitous gore wasnt my intention.

I leave The Animal rights societys in Nepal & India to have the goryist photos... It served thier cause. Mine was to feature ethnographic weaponary in its cultural context.

Appologies if it offended anyone. It certanly wasnt my intention.

Spiral