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Johnathan L B
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 Posted: Mon 23 May, 2011 10:45 pm Post subject: Longest Curved Sword Variant?? |
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WHat is the name of the longest curved sword?
aorighoaighar;ghare;ghae;ga
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Timo Nieminen
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Out of standard sword types, that would be the odachi.
Think "katana the size and weight of a Zweihänder", and that's pretty much it. The bigger ones (which can be ridiculously long; the biggest surviving one is 377cm long) were made as shrine offerings.
They don't handle quite like a Zweihänder, due to the curvature. I only played with a proper odachi (assuming the Hanwei odachi counts as a proper odachi) very briefly, so I don't know how much difference this makes in practice.
"In addition to being efficient, all pole arms were quite nice to look at." - Cherney Berg, A hideous history of weapons, Collier 1963.
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Stephen Curtin
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Well I dont know about which is the biggest but I know that some curved swords have reach lengths of six feet or more. From Europe there's the kriegsmesser, and from Japan there's the nodachi (kind of like a giant katana), there are also similar swords from Korea and China, but I can't remember what they are called. Hope this helps.
Éirinn go Brách
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J.D. Crawford
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Stephen Curtin
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| Posted: Tue 24 May, 2011 7:55 am Post subject: |
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WOW Timo that one BIG odachi, the skill involved in making something like that just boggles the mind, thanks for sharing.
Éirinn go Brách
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Gottfried P. Doerler
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wow, that odachi is really amazing, i wonder how this was intended to be used ?
as for that indian snake-sword: at least at deadliest warrior this was quite ridiculous (don`t bash me now, thats the only occasion i had seen this in action)
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Werner Stiegler
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| Posted: Tue 24 May, 2011 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Gottfried P. Doerler wrote: | | wow, that odachi is really amazing, i wonder how this was intended to be used ? |
As an offering to the gods and a testament to the smith and his team's skills.
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Simon G.
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| Posted: Wed 25 May, 2011 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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I gotta say, this odachi is fairly godlike. 
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