Looking for a quality dancing scimitar - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Scorpion23 · 06-26-2007, 07:12 PM

Hi everyone. My wife is a belly dancer and wants to start dancing with a scimitar as a prop. The problem is that most high quality versions I come across are balanced for combat and not for dancing. So far the only one I've found that doesn't look like a toy is from Saroyan Mastercrafts. But I wanted at least a second choice before I bought it.

The level of quality I'm looking for is full-tang carbon steel or high quality stainless and a pommel that doesn't look like it's made from a rejected brass casting. Does anyone know of a company that carries them?

ziadel · 06-27-2007, 01:30 PM

something like this mebbe?

Plan9 · 06-27-2007, 05:09 PM

What is the difference in the balance? Heavier pommel?

Scorpion23 · 06-27-2007, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ziadel

something like this mebbe?

That looks nice, how is the balance?

Crompsin: The ones made for dancing are balanced in the middle instead of by the pommel, so they can be used like this;

longbough · 06-27-2007, 07:25 PM

You ought to ask tfproject member Sultana:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/member.php?u=77912

here's her website
http://www.sedonadance.com/

06-26-2007, 07:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
Scorpion23 Psycho	Looking for a quality dancing scimitar Hi everyone. My wife is a belly dancer and wants to start dancing with a scimitar as a prop. The problem is that most high quality versions I come across are balanced for combat and not for dancing. So far the only one I've found that doesn't look like a toy is from Saroyan Mastercrafts. But I wanted at least a second choice before I bought it. The level of quality I'm looking for is full-tang carbon steel or high quality stainless and a pommel that doesn't look like it's made from a rejected brass casting. Does anyone know of a company that carries them?

06-27-2007, 01:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
ziadel Myrmidon Location: In the twilight and mist.	something like this mebbe? __________________ Ron Paul '08 Vote for Freedom Go ahead and google Dr. Ron Paul. You'll like what you read.

06-27-2007, 05:09 PM	#3 (permalink)
Plan9 I Confess a Shiver	What is the difference in the balance? Heavier pommel? __________________ *Whatever you can carry.* "You should not drink... and bake."

06-27-2007, 07:25 PM	#5 (permalink)
longbough Soylent Green is people. Location: Northern California	You ought to ask tfproject member Sultana: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/member.php?u=77912 here's her website http://www.sedonadance.com/ __________________ "I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence." - Mahatma Ghandi