Forum: European Armoury
11th June 2023, 08:34 PM
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Withdrawal of this guide
Dear readers of this guide,
it has been some time now since I wrote this little tour through the world of the karabela-hilted sabers. Like everyone else who dives deeper into his or her field of...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2022, 10:35 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2022, 10:24 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2022, 10:20 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2022, 10:12 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2022, 10:06 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2022, 10:00 PM
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The Ultimate Karabela Guide PART 6
I was working on the newest part of this guide when I realized the ton of images I would like to show, would mean the risk of getting problems with copyright. This is the reason I removed all images....
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Forum: European Armoury
7th December 2021, 08:20 PM
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Sources
As I came back here I realized the lack of sources for the information I provided.
To fix that, here is the literature I used for this work.
Other sources are my own experience examining and...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th October 2021, 02:24 PM
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Replies: 42
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So there you have it!
Looking at what I have...
So there you have it!
Looking at what I have written down so far in this very condensed text, I think the reader has now the oppurtunity to obtain a basic understanding about this form of sabers. ...
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Forum: European Armoury
1st October 2021, 06:18 PM
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The Ultimate Karabela Guide - Part 5
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The Ultimate Karabela Guide - Part 5
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Fakes and replicas
Searching the internet auctions, the serious ones and the various...
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Forum: European Armoury
1st October 2021, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 42
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Hey folks,
I would like to ask you if...
Hey folks,
I would like to ask you if anybody has a book, magazine or single pictures of the National exhibition to celebrate "thousand years of hungary" in Budapest which has been there from 1897...
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Forum: European Armoury
20th September 2021, 02:30 PM
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Replies: 42
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This is a problem we share. I am very much into...
This is a problem we share. I am very much into Karabela sabers, a little bit less into hungarian-polish types and everything else oscillates around that for me, so I very much appreciate knowledge...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th September 2021, 01:05 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
The Ultimate Karabela Guide - PART 4
This...
The Ultimate Karabela Guide - PART 4
This part is about makers marks. It is a quiet difficult topic and there is enough to write a book about it. This here is just for orientation. I recommend...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th September 2021, 12:49 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
17th September 2021, 09:32 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
12th September 2021, 04:35 PM
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100% agree with that.
I myself have witnessed...
100% agree with that.
I myself have witnessed a gatekeeping/elitarism mentality on certain polish forums, especially when some people who claim they have the absolute knowledge are confronted with...
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Forum: European Armoury
11th September 2021, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 42
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Another thing I forgot to mention...
I am lucky...
Another thing I forgot to mention...
I am lucky enough to own a type II polish saber with nicks of battle use. Those nicks are located mostly in the middle of the blade. The middle is sharp, nut not...
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Forum: European Armoury
11th September 2021, 10:46 PM
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Replies: 42
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Forum: European Armoury
11th September 2021, 02:12 AM
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I had a conversation with an extraordinary...
I had a conversation with an extraordinary swordsmith from Poland lately.
We discussed sword usage in relation to the damage the blade is taking especially from parrying.
We came to the...
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Forum: European Armoury
5th September 2021, 11:48 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
29th August 2021, 12:23 AM
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The Ultimate Karabela Guide PART 3
I decided to change the topic for Part 3 of this guide from a comparison of two weapons to something different to dive deeper into the possibilities of deciphering the history of a Karabela. Namely...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th August 2021, 09:50 PM
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The Ultimate Karabela Guide PART 2
In this part I will try to bring some hopefully clear examples to allow a first approach for determining the origin and age of a Karabela-type saber which will be called like in the foregoing part...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th August 2021, 11:23 PM
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Replies: 42
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For what I understand of fencing and deducting...
For what I understand of fencing and deducting from Mr.Z´s description moulinets are riskier the opener the pommel angle is because of the lack of "locking" your fingers into it it. This indeed is...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th August 2021, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 42
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Thanks again for those kind words!
You made...
Thanks again for those kind words!
You made few interesting points there Jim on which i wanted to briefly respond here, but get into in detail in a later part.
I think it was Zablocki who...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th August 2021, 08:30 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
The Ultimate Karabela Guide
Hello there!
I´d like to start a new thread about sabers of the Karabela type. I have already seen an old one on this forum which seems abandoned for a while.
My goal is to share and gather...
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