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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 25th September 2025, 01:29 AM
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Posted By fennec
You right when you say that wootz is harder to...

You right when you say that wootz is harder to work, but in my mind only at the forging steps.. Once finished, you can work it.
See those wide koftgari parts, and other kind of inlay. those was...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 25th September 2025, 01:21 AM
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Views: 84,516
Posted By fennec
Concerning this model I cant find something very...

Concerning this model I cant find something very algerian here...
I mean, close style but not same. Never gems on algerian guards (sometimes a bit of coral on quillon tips, but thats it), and not as...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 25th September 2025, 12:17 AM
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Views: 84,516
Posted By fennec
AGREED ! That what lead my last searches on the...

AGREED ! That what lead my last searches on the subject, that confirms those theories about an italian origin of the nimcha, for its guard, and maybe also the handle shape by inspiration, mix of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 24th September 2025, 11:56 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 84,516
Posted By fennec
Hi mate, and sorry again for the time to answer...

Hi mate, and sorry again for the time to answer (dont hesitate to send me an email in case someday you want to ask me something "important", sometimes I'm more reactiv...lol)

Well, it could be, I...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th September 2025, 05:04 AM
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Views: 47,674
Posted By fennec
All the honor is for me my dear friend, really !...

All the honor is for me my dear friend, really ! I mean, changing what was a personnal quest, into a common work, with other passionate ones, is really motivating !
For many reasons, some...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th September 2025, 04:19 AM
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Views: 47,674
Posted By fennec
All the pleasure is for me (well, Idk if its an...

All the pleasure is for me (well, Idk if its an english expression, so better that way "tout le plaisir est pour moi :) " ).
Really. Sharing my few knowledge, and, some personnal views about those...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th September 2025, 03:38 AM
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Views: 84,516
Posted By fennec
Hi my friend. Oh yeah I know it very well,...

Hi my friend.
Oh yeah I know it very well, I've even write some lines about it on my book. I've passed some days trying to find a meaning to the "magical square" and other writtings on it, making...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th September 2025, 03:15 AM
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Views: 84,516
Posted By fennec
For me too it's from zanzibar. Too "big"/large...

For me too it's from zanzibar. Too "big"/large pommel, I mean, no shape at all for the bottom, this is uncommon in algeria. You can also note that quillon wich is along the blade. It has the typical...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 07:11 AM
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Views: 47,674
Posted By fennec
And finally, those ones are more recent, as Ive...

And finally, those ones are more recent, as Ive begon to be more precise with inlay work, but also differential quench on many kind of steel (in water too haha, let forge in fire people cry about...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 07:04 AM
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Views: 47,674
Posted By fennec
ps.. ps... I'm actually a blacksmith, that...

ps.. ps...
I'm actually a blacksmith, that always forgot to share my work, never sell anything, and still wonder why I'm poor :D:D:D
So here is some of mines.. I mean, Ive forged (full ancient way,...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 05:36 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 84,516
Posted By fennec
Hi Theodor, its a pleasure to enlight as much I...

Hi Theodor, its a pleasure to enlight as much I can.
You right, it is quite difficult to define a nimcha (especially algerian, that mixed a lot of styles, due to a lot of influence of the algerian...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 05:14 AM
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Views: 47,674
Posted By fennec
Others are what I call "saharian mouss" (knife,...

Others are what I call "saharian mouss" (knife, just another word as khodmi, just to make difference in my book, nothing official), that are usually from a widest area in the desert, even used by...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 05:07 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 47,674
Posted By fennec
some more classic ones from mine

some more classic ones from mine
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 04:57 AM
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Posted By fennec
Just some more pictures... some from my blades,...

Just some more pictures... some from my blades, some from ancient pictures, but please please please please dont share them for the moment.. those are all from my book, and still waiting for some...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 04:42 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 47,674
Posted By fennec
ps. About the two pins, or one pin. I think that...

ps. About the two pins, or one pin. I think that the original and ancient way, was probably with one pin, and wires. But its also as old as this one, that have only two pins, and even no wire (and...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 03:38 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 47,674
Posted By fennec
Dear brother, Are you serious with that tread ??...

Dear brother, Are you serious with that tread ?? :D:D:D
How do you want me not to participate haha...but, LET ME FINISH MY BOOK :D:D:D (actually, more than 400pages, and still a lot of pictures...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 03:07 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 19,457
Posted By fennec
Naaah my friends, for me, this is clearly arabic....

Naaah my friends, for me, this is clearly arabic. Just probably very badly etched (it look like not been engraved).
Cant read that, just tried to symbolize caracters Ive reconize, but if you find...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 6th August 2025, 02:04 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 84,516
Posted By fennec
"Destroyed".... I mean.... Okay......

"Destroyed".... I mean.... Okay... :confus::confus::confus:
I've heard that story recently, and my algerian hearth bleed... haha but no judgement, everyone is free to use his stuff how he want !...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 5th August 2025, 04:21 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 20,454
Posted By fennec
You're welcome Yuri, it's a real pleasure for me...

You're welcome Yuri, it's a real pleasure for me to share those few knowledges, and cant wait to share with you my book, and know your reactions of all here, about many discovering/suppositions I've...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 5th August 2025, 03:49 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 84,516
Posted By fennec
(Sorry here is the picture)

(Sorry here is the picture)
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 5th August 2025, 03:40 AM
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Views: 84,516
Posted By fennec
HI Jacenty ! What a beautifull PIRATE NIMCHA...

HI Jacenty !
What a beautifull PIRATE NIMCHA ... It's pretty rare to find those "boarding" swords, with a large yalman, with an Iflissen scabbard (made around the area of Kabylie in Algeria).
many...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 3rd August 2025, 02:41 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 20,454
Posted By fennec
Handle length

(Again, ok Im a blacksmith, ok algerian and self proclamed specialist (lol), but I still can absolutely wrong on what is coming, so only my theories... )

Well Yuri, for me, yours is clearly a...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 3rd August 2025, 01:45 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 20,454
Posted By fennec
Hi Yuri, about this quote, I unfortunatly have to...

Hi Yuri, about this quote, I unfortunatly have to make just a little politic, but I promise not too much !
You can really not compare algeria to its neighbours on those subject, that are the rests...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st July 2025, 05:07 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 20,454
Posted By fennec
Yep mate, actually, I guess that a lot of those...

Yep mate, actually, I guess that a lot of those staight knives, are clearly from before 1830, and many things can proov that. First of all, a lot where tooken in the very few times of colonisation on...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st July 2025, 04:59 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 20,454
Posted By fennec
About flissas..

Hi Jim, happy that my theories find some logic to your ears ! You right when you say that the subject is wide, actually, Ive begun this book 3years ago.. finished the text part one year ago, after...
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