Blade cross cut shape description

[celtan]

Hi Guys,

How would you describe this crosscut?

It has a high ridge on one side, with hollowed facets, and a "negative" valley on the other.

I have always used the term "foliate", since it seems akin to a leaf, but I wonder if there's a more precise denomination.

Best

M

[fearn]

Ummm, old epee blade?

Best,

F

[fernando]

Hi Manolete,

Your pictures are getting finer

I think i see these being called "thee sided" or "triangular section" blades in a determined reknown British catalogue, but i can't check whether their backs are flat or concave .

But i'd say we call it here "lamina de tres quinas e mesas concavas".
... Pick up your notions of galego

I guess in French would be called "lame à deux pans creux".

[celtan]

You are surely jesting, my good sir.

Oh, you indeed were?

Well Senhor, what can you expect from small croppings of crappy large old pictures?

: P

Nah, the problem wit the denomination you suggest is that it is not distinctive enough, since it may well be applied also to estoc pyramidal crosscut blades ( like most socket bayonets).

The "Three corners and concave tables" is much better, yet too lengthy to be practical. Yet both it and the French "blade with two hollow sides" do not address the counterpart face with the valley/central depression. (Not really a groove).

This type of blade is very attractive, delicate, even elegant. Circa early to Mid17th C. It doths remind me of a leaf and it's stem. Seems to be a link between former broad blades and colichemarde pyramidal hollow blades.

Surely, there must be many more around with this typology.

What do you say, mes sieurs?

Bestest Regards

Manolo

Originally Posted by fernando

Hi Manolete,

Your pictures are getting finer

I think i see these being called "thee sided" or "triangular section" blades in a determined reknown British catalogue, but i can't check whether their backs are flat or concave .

But i'd say we call it here "lamina de tres quinas e mesas concavas".
... Pick up your notions of galego

I guess in French would be called "lame à deux pans creux".

[celtan]

Better photos recently taken. Note that the reverse face is actually a valley made by the two mesas/tables/sides of the anverse. Not the typical third face of a pyramidal blade. The effect is very elegant, almost dainty, yet the 3 cm wide blade (at ricasso) is very robust.

[fernando]

I would say i have already seen this type of cross section, in a much smaller scale; in fact the short blade of a sword cane i had.
If we were talking graphics, this would be a circumflex accent cross section
Go figure what would they call this profile sword wise .

[celtan]

You are bad...

Keep missbehavin' & Santa is going to also leave you only coal.

: )

Regards

M

Originally Posted by fearn

Ummm, old epee blade?

Best,

F