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Rasp with visible tang going into the handle Two sides of a tang (nakago) on a Japanese katana. A tang or shank is the back portion of the blade component of a tool where it extends into stock material or connects to a handle – as on a knife, sword, spear, arrowhead, chisel, file, coulter, pike, scythe, screwdriver, etc. [1] [2] One can classify various tang designs by their appearance, by ...
A tang is a piece that is sometimes fitted in the space within the clevis and is held in place by the clevis pin. [1] [2] The combination of a simple clevis fitted with a pin is commonly called a shackle, although a clevis and pin is only one of the many forms a shackle may take.
Yuan dynasty Taijitu diagram from the Shilin Guangji by Chen Yuanjing The Taijitu (太極圖), 1615 Xingming guizhi While the concept of yin and yang dates to Chinese antiquity, [ 10 ] the interest in "diagrams" ( 圖 tú ) is an intellectual fashion of Neo-Confucianism during the Song period (11th century), and it declined again in the Ming ...
A "tang" is a protrusion at the heel, tapered, parallel sided, or conical, for gripping, inserting in a handle, or mounting in a chuck. [2] The cut of the file refers to how fine its teeth are. They are defined as (from roughest to smoothest): rough, middle, bastard, second cut, smooth, and dead smooth.
Although it has been claimed that the M9 may be more prone to breakage than the older M7 bayonet, the M9 has a 20% thicker blade, the tang is reduced from (0.235 to 0.195 in (0.60 to 0.50 cm)) in thickness, and a 75% greater cross-sectional area of steel in the blade than the M7.
The origin of the English word 'tangram' is unclear. One conjecture holds that it is a compound of the Greek element '-gram' derived from γράμμα ('written character, letter, that which is drawn') with the 'tan-' element being variously conjectured to be Chinese t'an 'to extend' or Cantonese t'ang 'Chinese'. [5]
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A pin about which the Tang/Blade/Handle assemblies pivot. Safe handle The handle (generally the handle without the latch) that closes on the non-sharpened edge of the blade. Swedge Unsharpened spine of the blade. Some balisongs are also sharpened here or on both sides with either a more traditional look or wavy edges similar to a Kris sword. Tang