#shashkas

[kultofathena]

Hanwei Civilian Shaska Review | Kult of Athena

Here is an excellent replica of a traditional shaska you would find among the common folk of Caucasus Mountain in the 1700s. Simple, powerful and graceful in the hand for a horseman’s sabre. The smooth wood handle unites your grip to the sword in to one. A brown leather lanyard compliments the design as well as allow extra security while on horseback. The black leather wrapped scabbard features stainless steel accoutrements.

Order this blade HERE.

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel

SEE IT ALL @ KULT OF ATHENA

SOCIALS:

INSTAGRAM

FACEBOOK

Join our email list to stay up to date on news and events!

[petermorwood]

hello! I was wondering what you would think of this sword I designed for a character. I did some research (though admittedly not a lot) and it's based a bit on Russian and Mongolian styles, as well as just some fun design elements I included like the damascus and jade pommel.

That's very nice, and entirely functional.

While there were historical swords with a single back-guard, my own preference (so take or leave as you please) would be to have a full crossguard, making it look like an Afghani pulwar.

Here's a pulwar with a full crossguard and knucklebow,

Alternately, based on what I'm pretty sure was one of your inspirations, there's the Cossack shashka, which has no crossguard at all.

Side-note with a couple of extra details: the shashka was usually worn edge-up (as shown by the suspension loops) and some went into their scabbards right to the pommel.

Princess Mar'ya Morevna has one in this cover art.

Mick Posen is - IMO, anyway - a Seriously Good cover artist.

:->

[whiteraven90]

Phoenix's son, Ryan, putting makeup on Phoenix's husband, Griffin :')

Ryan and Phoenix traveled constantly during Ryan's childhood. He was a sullen kid, misbehaved and ran away often. Griffin is the spirit of the emperor of the Karkian Empire - when they were in or near its capital, Ryan often ditched Phoenix to hide at Griffin's place. Griffin had always held onto Ryan and entertained him until Phoenix realized that he's missing and came to collect him.

[yunaisky]

"A beautiful and memorable day"

Finally finish the wedding doodle of them

Aaaa yeyeyeyey they got married now yes!

Hope you like it @ambasingresident our oc are now married

[ambasingresident]

Did a doodle of Vasily and Ellio's future kids and gave them a lore for fun

DESCRIPTION:

Androny (Kōki) and Yevgeniya (Ai) are the adopted twins of Vasily and Ellio. Androny is a gentle and silent boy who tends to be protective to people close to him while Yevgeniya is a strong and firey girl who has a soft spot for people she's close with.

LORE:

Abandoned at birth due to the chaos and war in whats left of the Central Siberian Republic, they never knew who were their parents and spent most of their time in an orphanage. During their stay they were outcasts among the other orphans and were even bullied by them for being different, so they rely only on themselves, each other, and the caregivers in the orphanage. When their orphanage was attacked by a neighbouring warlord, they were forced to hid in the forest and saw their only home looted and the children and caretakers taken by them. With nowhere else to go, they were forced to survive on their own and live in the abandoned orphanage in harsh conditions. When Vasily and Ellio found them in the ruins of the orphanage, they decided to bring them home and adopt them as their kids to give them the love and care they need as their new parents.

Bonus Art:

The Shaska Family

[emiliasilverova]

For @mi6-cafe's Moodboard March, here is my first ever moodboard... Janus themed (of course).

That was fun to make 😀

[klaodie]

Oh, back where we left off :

Making the house more lively.

[pattern-recognition]

If you did HEMA what weapon would you do/marry. I think you'd love the romance of the rapier but your gnomish stature compels you to get good at spear.

i think fencing is in every way cooler than HEMA but i’d be lying if i said i wouldn’t try it at least once if i could do it for free. spear would be cool, though a part of me just wants to go wild with a hussar sabre or a shashka to halfway placate my cavalry fantasies

[theghostofdash]

Salamandra Saber concept art

A sword I designed for my concept art class weapons and props portion. I took heavy inspiration from slavic culture, polish sabers, rapiers, and the Cossack shashka sword. The saber was designed for my character Maran a wild sorcerer who's heritage is very heavily inspired by slavic culture. I wished to try and emulate this in the design. the name and iconography of the salamander ties in with the characters heraldry, title, and combat style, as Marans heraldic animal and title is the salamander, which in their society is symbolic of fire, magic, blood, and life.

May 30 2019

[cervenakoviny]

Šaška

Dnes si na paškál beriem železo, ktorým sa oháňal Stepan Voronin.

Vyzerať mohla nejako takto.

Keby však Stepan nepochádzal z kozáckej pevnosti na brehoch Donu, ale z horských údolí Kavkazu, mala by skôr túto podobu.

Rozdiel je v rukoväti - zahnutej a zakončenej malým hákovitým zašpicatením s očkom, alebo rovnej a sploštenej s masívnejšou hlavicou. Okrem toho kaukazská šaška je dlhšia a ľahšia, s menej vysunutým ťažiskom.

A je to práve Kaukaz, kde sa táto zbraň zrodila. Jej názov je odvodený z Adygejčiny/západnej čerkeštiny a znamená dlhý nôž. Čo je pomerne výstižné, keďže šlo o jednosečné zbrane bez záštity s celkovou dĺžkou 80-105 cm. Hmotnosť sa pohybovala okolo 1 kg. Jej najstaršie vyobrazenia nachádzame v Gruzínsku, datované do 17. storočia, najstaršia písomná zmienka je z 1747. Kvôli prekladateľským zmätkom panovalo presvedčenie už o skoršom písomnom zázname, ale považuje sa za vyvrátené. Ďuro s jej chýrnosťou v Kornelovej dobe vlastne troška švindľuje. Je to však dosť na tesno, aby nebolo nemožné, že si ju Stepan osvojil.

(Čerkesie v 1450 a 1750)

Kozácke skupiny operujúce vo východoeurópskej nížinatej stepi ich prevzali od Kaukazských horalov a ďalej prispôsobovali svojím potrebám.

Tie spočívali v boji z konského chrbta, vo výpadoch, pri ktorých nebola dôležitá ochrana, ale rýchly tvrdý úder umožnený ťažiskom priamo v čepeli (niekedy aj ťažším obojstranne (false edge) zaostreným hrotom), v ľahkom úchope, prudkých zmenách smeru a voľnom narábaní s čepeľou počas rýchlej jazdy, v sekaní celým ostrím od špičky po rukoväť, v prehadzovaní z ruky do ruky podľa vývoja boja (u niektorých iných zbraní sú rukoväte striktne pravoruké).

Čím sa líši od klasickej šable?

Tá je síce takisto jednobritá a zahnutá, ale má záštitu, v ktorej sa sústredí aj ťažisko - nie je určená k divokému mávaniu na všetky možné strany za pohybu celého tela, ale k precíznym sekom vedeným rukou po užšie vymedzených dráhach. Zároveň pripúšťa výraznejšie zakrivenie čepele.

Výcvik v narábaní so šabľou je dlhší a náročnejší (koniec koncov, je to zároveň zbraň pre duelantov). Šaška je taktiež lacnejšia na výrobu a zachová si funkčnosť a povestnú vysokú údernosť aj pri nižšej kvalite. Ťažko ju odraziť. Boj možno rozhodnúť hneď prvým úderom.

(Napr. poľská karabela)

Ďalší vývoj

To prispelo k postupnému nahradeniu šable šaškou (respektíve presadeniu kríženca oboch zbraní) v masovej neskoro-novovekej armáde. Po preniknutí medzi kozákov, na Blízky východ, do Poľska a nemeckých dielní (Pasov, vlčia značka), sa totiž stala aj hromadne produkovanou štandardizovanou zbraňou celej Ruskej cárskej armády. Hlavne model z 1834 bol populárny. Manévre popísané v imperiálnych príručkách na jej používanie sa neraz líšia od tých, ktorými sa vyznačovala pôvodná tradícia, ale pri viacerých badať spoločný základ. Šašku si ponechala aj sovietska Červená armáda a to až do polovice 20. storočia, čím sa zo šašky stala najdlhšie užívaná sečná zbraň.

Väčšina zachovalých pôvodných kusov pochádza z 19. storočia a keby Stepan žil vtedy, možno by dokonca nosil silne pozmenenú šašku známu ako dragúnska. (Až sa človek zamýšľa, či ju stále možno volať šaškou, no kým rukoväť je dragúnska, čepeľ ostala šašková) (Áno, dragúnky mali aj v USA za občianskej vojny, jazdecká zbraň)

Zaujímavosti

Nosila sa podobne ako katana. To umožňovalo plynulý sek spolu s vytiahnutím. Dala sa zavesiť aj na plece. Zvykla sa kombinovať s blízkovýchodným nožom kiličom. Traduje sa, že vďaka vyššie zmieneným vlastnostiam čepele bolo možné jedným úderom protivníka aj sťať. Dosiaľ sa s ňou tancuje.

[kultofathena]

Hanwei – Civilian Shashka

Here is an excellent replica of a traditional shaska you would find among the common folk of Caucasus Mountain in the 1700s. Simple, powerful and graceful in the hand for a horseman’s sabre. The smooth wood handle unites your grip to the sword in to one. A brown leather lanyard compliments the design as well as allow extra security while on horseback. The black leather wrapped scabbard features stainless steel accoutrements.

[ambasingresident]

Sick art, thanks again

Hey there, would it be fine if you draw my oc, Vasily and my AU's version of yungaisky's Ellio Ovelot? Scenario is up to you. Thanks.

Idk

[whiteraven90]

Striving to get a better feel for Griffin lately. I like this side of him

[yunaisky]

Ellio Ovelot redraw

Finally a Ellio is done and know i will do Andy next.

I want to tell you that Ellio is bisexual :D

And his birthday is 10 August, because I posted it on that date

Bonus doodle

Vasily Shashka belong to : @ambasingresident

[ambasingresident]

Aftermath of a Drinking Party

Here's Ellio helping a drunk Vasily to go back to his cabin after drinking some strong alcohol with his troops, made a short comic based on the drawing below

(Ellio belongs to @yunaisky)

[ambasingresident]

It's alright, I loved how you drew Vasily in your style! Thank you so much again for drawing him!

[Art Request]

It would be cool and all if you can draw my Russian anarchist bean. Thanks

Sorry this took so long. I'm also sorry I could come up w/ a better post 😅