Rusty said -
"I can't help myself:
straighten the spine til it's curve is just like Jim's katana;
stretch the blade about 5" to 25/26";
keep the handle exactly the same only stretch to 9 1/2 to 10" and add the tsuba from the katana."
That'd be sweet, sure.
Personally, I'd upsweep the last 6 inches of the blade just a little more, maybe just a little bit of taper - hey presto, a yataghan.
In 1841, Colonel Marey wrote a detailed report for the French army on the ideal sword profile for both cutting and thrusting; having examined virtually all the known blade types, he reached the conclusion that the yataghan was the perfect sword. This report caused many countries to adopt yataghan-style blades for their issue swords & bayonets.
160 years later, the arguments he put forward still sound pretty good to me. The only yataghan-style blade I've tested is a Portuguese M88 bayonet; it's made of lousy quality steel and won't hold an edge if you use it as a butter-knife, but there's definitely something special about that double curve.
An HI yataghan... Something to daydream about.
"I can't help myself:
straighten the spine til it's curve is just like Jim's katana;
stretch the blade about 5" to 25/26";
keep the handle exactly the same only stretch to 9 1/2 to 10" and add the tsuba from the katana."
That'd be sweet, sure.
Personally, I'd upsweep the last 6 inches of the blade just a little more, maybe just a little bit of taper - hey presto, a yataghan.
In 1841, Colonel Marey wrote a detailed report for the French army on the ideal sword profile for both cutting and thrusting; having examined virtually all the known blade types, he reached the conclusion that the yataghan was the perfect sword. This report caused many countries to adopt yataghan-style blades for their issue swords & bayonets.
160 years later, the arguments he put forward still sound pretty good to me. The only yataghan-style blade I've tested is a Portuguese M88 bayonet; it's made of lousy quality steel and won't hold an edge if you use it as a butter-knife, but there's definitely something special about that double curve.
An HI yataghan... Something to daydream about.
