:: Blades: swords, sabre and daggers... ::

i haf been observing melee weapons since i watched 7 swords on the saturday of 2 weeks back... finally, made some observations here... haf anyone wondered why some blades are double-edged and single-edged... well, below is my pt of view...

double-edged blade:
the bigger version of such blades is very popular during the kings and knights era. where they wear thick armours to protect themselves from the cutting edge facing them, becoz the double-edged blade is too big and heavy...

for those who are using the middle to small sizes of this type of blade, often do not need to wear any metal armours... eg fighters in china... a standard type of this blade is commonly used in olden china... it is very much lighter and thin, as compared with those used by kings and knights... such blades are easier to control and less strength is needed to prevent urself being hurt by ur own blade...

the smallest class of these blades would be called dagger... commonly used by ninjas, hunters, malays etc... if u noticed here again, these groups of ppl do not need to wear any armour at all... instead they wear wateva they like when using dagger... the daggers used by malay warriors are more unique, it is designed with alot of curves on it... these daggers will leave a fatal wound on their enemies once they pulled their dagger out and let them bled to death... the bad thing of these daggers is... they cant be kept into normal covers and may accidentually hurt others too...

single-edged blades:
in eastern cultures, they are often much bigger than swords... eg the one Guan Gong used and "Tu Long Dao (Dragon Slayer Sabre)"... becoz if its weight, making it harder to control... they are only sharpened on 1-side only... such blades usually required to be controlled using 2 hands and can create a powerful wipe... the cutting force is contributed by the user's strength and weight of the blade, and the devastating blow is strong enough to break bones apart...

chopper and knives are the smaller class of this blade... they are more commonly found for cooking... keke... since only 1 side is used at each time, hence there is no need to sharpen both sides... there are also some cutting techinques, which requires the chief to hold the back of the knife, so this add more reason why only single-edged blades are used here...

+ BL updated @ 5:30 AM

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