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Originally Posted by TimW
If the knife was broken, I would have fixed it. In this case I would have kept it as it is (but that is my personal opinion), because the original repair tells an interesting story.
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Salaams TimW,
The Katar hilt fix was a botchup. That combination would have fallen apart sharpening a pencil. However I accept your point; after all the project was placed on the forum for that purpose. The "knife" as you put it was indeed broken, so we fixed it. The original repair was a train crash! I dont see any story attached to the previous setup but I would be delighted to hear one..
Sometimes Indian Daggers were just ornamental i.e. To show off on the waistbelt at The Shahs Court rather than as a weapon and we even discussed that as a possibility. In the end we went for the full rehilt because of the state of the thing and because it was a broken half a hilt and we believed it was a missmatch wrong hilt style/wrong dagger style.
Personally I tend to avoid personal opinions myself, rather, I prefer sound research and reasoned arguement when appraising a forum topic. Or as one of my old commanding officers would say... "Mr when I want your personal opinion I'll give you it" !
This project took hours of planning and research and briefings in 3 different languages plus procurement of the right materials and workshop time and effort. What I was hoping for but didn't quite get from the forum was questions and constructive criticism on the various
ancient techniques we carried out to redo this lovely artefact... all done by hand ...no power tools... hand cut and polished horn, hand made silver pins and pitch to join the blade and hilt as in the old way for blades in the "Shahs" workshop..
In fact I have developed quite an aversion to the dreadful term IMHO that I urge forum to penalise such comment because it adds nothing constructive to the knowledge base unless accompanied by sense and facts.. By all means get the books out and lets have a sensible kick the ball round debate...
Restoration is one of the main topics but we don't have a
full facility to handle projects, questions and ideas... see my thread...that idea of a restoration library seems to have sunk somewhat despite a number of very good restoration projects ongoing.
I see no sense it sticking up a one liner reply that says "in my opinion etc etc "and then to be awarded that as I x post on the forum input score...
On the contrary and with respect, I think those bland replies, whilst allowable, should simply score zero.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.