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31st October 2019, 04:50 AM | #1 |
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An attractive and quite interesting catter, kronkew! Looks like a recycled European blade, or the tip end thereof? Interesting that laminations are visible which are in keeping with pre-industrial manufacture.
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31st October 2019, 10:44 AM | #2 | |
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2nd November 2019, 05:23 AM | #3 | |
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2nd November 2019, 09:14 AM | #4 |
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I have the little sister
And here is what i think... (who wants to be a millionaire) All these katars had originaly 3 rivets but as you said the blade was not securely fitted. So the owners have to do some basic soldering to reinforce the thing. Most of these katars have the same problem: disgusting and ugly soldering and it cannot be the armorer who did this lovely katar... |
2nd November 2019, 10:23 AM | #5 |
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The rivets on these katars always seemed to me not very reliable.
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2nd November 2019, 10:57 AM | #6 | |
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In our modern overbuilt throwaway if it breaks - we should have made it thicker/heavier and stringer/harder - world, we forget that it was never like that before, if it came loose, or broke, it was fixed, recycled, hehilted, reshaped, resharpened, rebladed, repurposed, repaired it until there was nothing left. Last edited by kronckew; 2nd November 2019 at 11:08 AM. |
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3rd November 2019, 10:47 PM | #7 |
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Just to add to the examples here, one of my katars appears to have had the blade taken off its original hilt and then brazed onto its current one. Also kind of surprised no ones mentioned copper soldering yet. I have a tulwar hilt that appears to have had liberal amounts of copper involved with its construction (most easily seen on the pommel disk - pic included), and actually the same katar that had its blade remounted also has its crossbars copper soldered to the sidebars. I might be remembering this incorrectly, but I'm pretty sure I've also seen a number of examples of bara jamdadus (hooded katars) that have the balls in the middle of the crossbars soldered together with copper.
Edit: Reuploaded the tulwar pic so the soldering is more visible. |
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