Guard sheet
A guard blade (also parrying disc ) is a disc-shaped handguard in edged weapons that sits between the handle and the blade . With sword-like edged weapons, a quillons were usually used as hand protection instead of a guard . A well-known form of the guard is, for example, the tsuba of the Japanese katana . The transition from cross guard to cross guard is fluid.
In kitchen or butcher knives , deer catchers and similar tools, guard blades are less pronounced but sometimes present. Today, the handle or the rear edge of the cutting edge are usually designed in such a way that they protect the hand from accidentally sliding onto the blade.
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6th edition 1905–1909