katar forging

[delor]

Hi everyone,

I've been off for a long time, so I will introduce myself again.
I'm a french blacksmith, mostly involved in oriental blades forging. By the way, I really enjoy the huge amount of informations, advices and pictures found in this forum.
I have to make an indian katar, and unfortunately never had the change to get one and closely look at it. Could some of you help me by answering the following question :
- are katar usually forged as a sigle piece (blade and handle sides), or is there some welding somewhere between blade and handle? I think there is some but I can't exactly figure where, by looking at the available pictures.

(I must say that I'm not a fake maker. I like to keep the old smithing technics alive, and indo persian blades are most of the time masterpieces of great interest).

Thanks a lot

Regards