Excellent! Thanks for opening this thread ShayanMirza, and thanks for the video. Your attempts look quite good, and my only question is whether the thrust would be powerful against a heavy solid mass. Could it pierce through armour, flesh and so on and cause sufficient damage as a straight blade would?
From the meager sources I've read, the shamshir was always described as a purely slashing weapon. If thrusting had been used and documented I imagine it is written somewhere. Looking forward to what comes up.
Emanuel
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