In my last post I mentioned that curved swords are considered to have certain advantages over straight swords. I then immediately started talking about sickle-shaped weapons of a type that are distinct from the general run of “swords”. This was confusing, I now realize.
There are scimitars, cutlasses, and sabers with strongly curved blades. These are swords, well-known ones. But I was talking about implements with a distinctly hooked shape. And curved “concave” rather than “convex”. That part really interests me.
That’s all for tonight, folks. Sometimes I ask myself, why not just study and write about the fabulous Japanese swords that have been referred to as the finest weapons ever made? Well, that’s been done. I’m a neophyte at all this blademongering but here’s an article that looked pretty solid to me: http://ejmas.com/tin/tinart_friday_0903.html
