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Forum: European Armoury 11th June 2023, 08:34 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
Exclamation 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...
Forum: European Armoury 3rd January 2022, 10:35 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
YEMEN: I´m sure this saber type has its own name,...

YEMEN: I´m sure this saber type has its own name, but I see them often labeled as Karabela. I dont agree with this. If somebody knows the original name of these, please share that information. These...
Forum: European Armoury 3rd January 2022, 10:24 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
COSSACK Cave: Some auction houses declare them...

COSSACK
Cave: Some auction houses declare them as of PLC origin. These sabers belonging to the Cossack culture is just my own opinion
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Forum: European Armoury 3rd January 2022, 10:20 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
RUSSIAN (I only know one confirmed example which...

RUSSIAN (I only know one confirmed example which belonged to Tsar Peter I)
Cave: Not to beeing taken as blueprint for "russian karabela"!
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Forum: European Armoury 3rd January 2022, 10:12 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH: BATTLE KARABELA ...

POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH: BATTLE KARABELA
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Forum: European Armoury 3rd January 2022, 10:06 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
POLISH LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH: KARABELA...

POLISH LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH: KARABELA KONTUSZOWA (PARADE)
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Forum: European Armoury 3rd January 2022, 10:00 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
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....
Forum: European Armoury 7th December 2021, 08:20 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 4th October 2021, 02:24 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
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. ...
Forum: European Armoury 1st October 2021, 06:18 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
The Ultimate Karabela Guide - Part 5 ...

The Ultimate Karabela Guide - Part 5

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Fakes and replicas

Searching the internet auctions, the serious ones and the various...
Forum: European Armoury 1st October 2021, 03:45 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 20th September 2021, 02:30 PM
Replies: 42
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Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 19th September 2021, 01:05 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 18th September 2021, 12:49 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
Thank you for this correction. You are right, the...

Thank you for this correction. You are right, the blades do look very similar!
I´m happy to have the opportunity to learn here :)
Is the image from " A Study of the Eastern Sword"? It looks very...
Forum: European Armoury 17th September 2021, 09:32 PM
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Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
Its lovely to see I am not alone when it comes to...

Its lovely to see I am not alone when it comes to this part of a saber. For our cause. Lets just call its "wasy" or "beard" then. ("Beard" is directly translated).

Following comes the official...
Forum: European Armoury 12th September 2021, 04:35 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 11th September 2021, 11:01 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 11th September 2021, 10:46 PM
Replies: 42
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Posted By awdaniec666
Thanks Jim for that important input and yet again...

Thanks Jim for that important input and yet again for your kind words. I am glad to hear this information is uselful.

It seems to me that people debating historical fencing techniques (including...
Forum: European Armoury 11th September 2021, 02:12 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 5th September 2021, 11:48 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
Thanks Ariel for that info! :)

Thanks Ariel for that info! :)
Forum: European Armoury 29th August 2021, 12:23 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 28th August 2021, 09:50 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 27th August 2021, 11:23 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 27th August 2021, 04:49 PM
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Posted By awdaniec666
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...
Forum: European Armoury 24th August 2021, 08:30 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 208,084
Posted By awdaniec666
Lightbulb 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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