What is the purpose of the design of a kris sword

>>32625068

costly signaling. Basically an expression of the smiths skill that confers status as an exotic good. People want the status, more smiths learn to make the waves. Enough iterations later, it is no longer exotic but a culture fixture.

I don't know about the kris style, but the European flambard swords and later flamberge rapiers supposedly cut through wood easier and sent vibrations through an attacker's sword when parrying, respectively. Also, a "flame blade" with waves like that was kind of like the medieval mercenary's tacticool beard and tattoos. It was kind of a "tough guy" thing. Maybe it's a similar reasoning in SE Asia?

it's to make it as inconvenient as possible to sharpen so that you take it back to the smith for service-- it's like the ancient version of how all car dealerships these days are service centers the margins are all so tight on the car that the real profit is in overcharging on maintenance.

It was a method to make a sword/long knife better at parrying. It allows a blade to slow down another blade. In a Semicircular Parry the enemies blade is engaged and a allies or your off hand weapons ability to engage your target is better.

>>32625217
>but the European flambard swords and later flamberge rapiers supposedly cut through wood easier and sent vibrations through an attacker's sword when parrying,
source please

>>32625068
you get an agility bonus when using short blades

>>32625068
So you can do the pencil wiggle trick with it.

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>>32625068

OP, The Keris are designed that way so it could be easily to apply poison. Remember Keris is Malay close combat weapon. Ruthless and it ain't need fancy moves or chivalry stuff. It wasn't designed to slash but a deep stab with greater damage to flesh and with a poison applied. You know what happened.

The wavy shape also got aesthetic reason, It symbolise snake and always in uneven number. A Mahaguru (master craftsman) makes an even number of lok (Wavy blade) when its his last Keris, signifying that he no longer wants to make Keris and that this last one is the finest Keris he has ever made.

>>32626551
If thats true its fucking dope homie

>>32625502
Interesting

>>32626551

Seems kind of gay

Why would you worry about some symbolic odd-even number shit when you should just be focusing on this specifications of each weapon you're making?

Non white cultures always do stupid illogical shit

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>>32626916

Read the first one reason son.
Does katana makers do some long ritual to cleanse and purified the blade because it was gay? The word is "aesthetic". Guess the no cultural/heritage/customs beauty among the white people.

>>32625068

It is postulated that a wavy blade slices better than a straight blade.

>>32626997
>Does katana makers do some long ritual to cleanse and purified the blade because it was gay? The word is "aesthetic".
No, the words are "shitty pig iron"

>>32625658
Heard the first on some dumb history channel show, and the latter is from Wikipedia.

do the waves on the flamberge help the blade's strength to counter the drawn out length of the metal? If they were meant to use the last foot of the blade so much it makes sense that they would want it to be less flexible.

>>32627456

It does nothing to increase or decrease its strength. And I'm pretty sure an ideal sword has a uniform flexibility along the entire blade.

>>32626375
Kek. Underrated post