Hey Guys,
Thanks for sharing all your thoughts. Something quite interesting to ponder. With Dha/Daab it's interesting because there is quite a range in blade shapes from quite straight to more heavily curved. I was thinking that in some ways maybe that with curved blade the centripetal force would help to naturally orient the blade??? This would not help explain things with a more straight blade. Perhaps it just a matter of what you get use to...and with practice you learn to control edge orientation? Or perhaps given the fact that most of the armies composed of conscribed men of the city state who wore little to no armour this was not as big of an issue as it might be otherwise? Aside from swords, we've mentioned polearms and I can think of the Mak, which blade orientation would seem to be important but also has a round shaft...perhaps with the weight of the blade off center from the shaft this also acts similar to the curved sword blade in the the centripetal force helps to orient the blade?
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