Strtaight Blade Tulwar

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde

Both Mourice and Jim are right, and the discussion pops up now and again.
It seems to me, that we have discussed this before, although I seem to remember, that the discussion was on different sword blades with a tulwar hilt.
If anyone sees a tulwar hilt without a blade, no one will discuss that it is a tulwar hilt, so I will suggest that swords with a tulwar hilt, but with a different blade is called. A tulwar hilt with a Persian blade, a tulwar (with the Indian tulwar blade), a sukhela with a tulwar hilt and so on.
In this case it will be clear, what both the hilt and the blade looks like.

Well said Jens, it is about qualifying descriptively what the sword is, especially if the components test the boundaries of concise classification.

Using an analogy that always perplexed me in my younger years, if I had a 1950 Ford, but put a Chevy 350 engine in it.....then what do I call it? a Ford or a Chevy. If I need the engine worked on and tell them I have a '50 Ford, when they check for parts they need Chevrolet parts, not Ford, etc.
The dilemma is easily seen...I must specify the difference in what was once simply a 1950 Ford.