Jambiya for opinion

tom hyle · 1st April 2005, 11:02 PM

The large sword ones like this do not usually have a midrib, if that's what you mean? They are of flattened diamond or lenticular cross-section. This does look like a recent piece. I have repeatedly heard of new jambiyas with hollow blades. I have never seen this. Comment? Report? Ordinary midribbed jambiya blades (the type I'd heard it in reference to before) are so thin to start with as to seem to leave no room for such a thing, except perhaps in the actual rib? Hollow blades are one of the many varieties of old European stage blades, and some old toys have been made this way.

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1st April 2005, 11:02 PM	#7
tom hyle Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Houston, TX, USA Posts: 1,254	The large sword ones like this do not usually have a midrib, if that's what you mean? They are of flattened diamond or lenticular cross-section. This does look like a recent piece. I have repeatedly heard of new jambiyas with hollow blades. I have never seen this. Comment? Report? Ordinary midribbed jambiya blades (the type I'd heard it in reference to before) are so thin to start with as to seem to leave no room for such a thing, except perhaps in the actual rib? Hollow blades are one of the many varieties of old European stage blades, and some old toys have been made this way.