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These could be knapped into blades or spikes, or into a circular design that looked like scales. [7] The macuahuitl is not specifically a sword or a club, although it approximates a European broadsword. [2] Historian John Pohl defines the weapon as a "kind of a saw sword". [8] Aztec warriors as shown in the 16th-century Florentine Codex (Vol ...
A contemporary navaja of traditional design, with a 12-inch (300 mm) blade. The navaja is a traditional Spanish folding-blade fighting and utility knife. [1]One of the oldest folding knife patterns still in production, the first true navajas originated in the Andalusian region of southern Spain. [1]
The present chronology is a compilation that includes diverse and relatively uneven documents about different families of bladed weapons: swords, dress-swords, sabers, rapiers, foils, machetes, daggers, knives, arrowheads, etc..., with the sword references being the most numerous but not the unique included among the other listed references of the rest of bladed weapons.
Carbide-tipped saw blades The saw blade's teeth are tipped (via welding) with small pieces of sharp tungsten carbide block. This type of blade is also called TCT (Tungsten Carbide-Tipped) saw blade. Carbide-tipped saw blades are widely used to cut wood, plywood, laminated board, plastic, glass, aluminum and some other metals. Solid-carbide saw ...
Metal is also worked in the city, especially tin and iron, which were introduced by the Spanish. Tin in worked in mostly decorative items such as mirror frames and figures. Iron is worked into knives, daggers and other blades, machetes, tableware. Tlacolula is particularly noted for its production of wrought iron railings for buildings. [1] [2]
The sound of the circular saw is different from the sound of an up-and-down saw and earned it the nickname buzz-saw. Sawmills first used smaller diameter circular saws to resaw dimension lumber such as lath and wall studs and for edging boards. As the technology advanced large diameter saw blades began to be used for the head saws and to cut ...
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A modern hand-and-a-half sword with a short ricasso. A ricasso is an unsharpened length of blade just above the guard or handle on a knife, dagger, sword, or bayonet. Blades designed this way appear at many periods in history in many parts of the world and date back to at least the Bronze Age—essentially, as long as humans have shaped cutting tools from metals.