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Nice! Gonna etch it?
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limes go best with gin & tonic water.
coconut with pinapple. i have some sugar free pineapple drink mix, and some coconut drink mix. each sachet makes about 2 litres, so i make 2 litres of each , mix and store in the fridge. pina coladas for days, sadly sans booze. id however favour the iced sweet tea with peach flavoured ones.
coconut with pinapple. i have some sugar free pineapple drink mix, and some coconut drink mix. each sachet makes about 2 litres, so i make 2 litres of each , mix and store in the fridge. pina coladas for days, sadly sans booze. id however favour the iced sweet tea with peach flavoured ones.
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got this pretty old, 10in. blade Kukri last year, but never got to post pics
Today I've taken it out for cleaning and some little furniture chopping, so I decided to take some shots
Handle was very worn out and a ppain to use for extended time and work, so I wrapped it with what was at hand...
Today I've taken it out for cleaning and some little furniture chopping, so I decided to take some shots
Handle was very worn out and a ppain to use for extended time and work, so I wrapped it with what was at hand...
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It's a Spyderco Rock Salt sprint, a limited run of the good old design by Ed Schempp that received the same name, discontinued years ago
The steel is H1, handle is ultra ergonomic and well designed (the designer is well known for his incredible grips and handle shapes which aid a lot in chopping and cutting, as seen in the Bladesports cutting competitions) and I have to say it's one of the greatest handling and using fixed blades I've put my hands on, ever.
A nice beast with kukri-esque shape but thin stock, so weighs less than it would seem: these two weigh the same
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Christcl, That looks a lot like one of my "younger" blades. But powder steel? Must be a brute of a cutter. What's the plan for it, a bit of Tameshigiri? Bet you can get an edge on that one 
Whoa, that buckler is impressive. I don't think I have ever seen one with a steel backing like that before. Usually they are more just 1 sheet and the cap with the handle being attached to the back of the concave side. I see what you mean by weighs a ton though even at that size it must wear you out to use it for long.
Whoa, that buckler is impressive. I don't think I have ever seen one with a steel backing like that before. Usually they are more just 1 sheet and the cap with the handle being attached to the back of the concave side. I see what you mean by weighs a ton though even at that size it must wear you out to use it for long.
Christcl, That looks a lot like one of my "younger" blades. But powder steel? Must be a brute of a cutter. What's the plan for it, a bit of Tameshigiri? Bet you can get an edge on that one
Shavru-san, its been almost 6 years since I've stepped in an Iaido class. I'm assembling a Ming Chinese archery costume (since the style of archery i practice is Ming Chinese in origin) so decided that the sword that I am most familiar with would make a more suitable choice (and more economic) than buying a new liuyedao or yanmaodao that I have received no formal training with.
As you may know the Ming Chinese imported over 100,000 nihonto from Japan so I am sure there were a number of nobility, officers, or military units who preferred this kind of sword over native swords.
I am fortunate to also refer to the the Jinyiwei that were imperial bodyguards or agents that may have used curved two handed swords that were either actual Nihonto or closely derived from.
A sword is all that is missing from a costume like this!
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my two handed chinese miaodao
it's pattern welded steel:
note the bronze sash/belt hook, these were made in a large version of the ones used for one handed dao and are the traditional way to carry the swords.
'nother (smaller) bronze belt hook on my TFW dan dao. (the hooks are made by a chinese sword restorer in the netherlands.
it's pattern welded steel:
note the bronze sash/belt hook, these were made in a large version of the ones used for one handed dao and are the traditional way to carry the swords.
'nother (smaller) bronze belt hook on my TFW dan dao. (the hooks are made by a chinese sword restorer in the netherlands.
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Yes, The third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in 1378 during the Ahikaga or Muromachi period entered Trade with China to include many swords. Here is a GREAT article of research about the relationship. Quite interesting to me, hopefully you will appreciate the information too.
https://markussesko.com/2013/11/01/japanese-sword-trade-with-ming-china/
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i forget the mfg. name, he advertised on etsy for a while, gone now. they advertised online & were very easy to communicate with.
may have been 'the japanese sword company' in their chinese section. (don't believe the listing if it says 'in stock', that just means they'll make one for you. mine took a few months. the mia dao is no longer luisted there tho. i'd skip any of them that have an acorn nut on the pommel.
http://www.japanese-sword.co.uk/
also not in the UK in spite of the url.
P. dekker is correct
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That miaodaoWow! Man that is nice! I dont think I could put that on the shelf. Id have to do some chopping!
apparently these were used by the infantry as anti cavalry weapons by larger troopers, the swords were known as 'horse choppers'. it's a brutal two handed chinese slaymore. i have a neighbour with two horses. wonder if she'd.....
naw, probably not. the police would frown on it i suspect and may come for a chat. someone attacked a horse with a knife and it made the papers last week, the locals were outraged.
my TFW DanDao would make a more rounded anti-personnel and melon killer. and easier to carry. i can JUST manage to draw and return the mia while wearing it on a sash. contempory chinese manuals show sword drills with them where a pair of soldiers actually draw each other's mia dao, or half swording it (very carefully).
