(05-03-2023, 07:25 AM)Gordi Wrote: Gotta love the sharp pointy things.
Your spears are impressive @ninurta.
I've got a few things here, not spears! but useful implements nonetheless. My fave is probably my hand-forged Tanzanian Bill-Hook. It was made by a herdsman/farmer type, out of an old lorry (truck) leaf spring! I've got a nice vintage hand axe in a Kent style but made in Sheffield, England around 1900, a machete, and a few Mora, Scandinavian knives for wood carving, a lovely wee Opinel pen knife, the obligatory Victorinox swiss army knife and an assortment of other knives, planes and chisels etc. I need to go rummage in my shed for some of my dads old stuff too.....hmmm......
What is it with us Rogues and pointy things??? LOL
Sweet Jesus! I love me an Opinel, but the only one I have left is a monster, with about a 6" blade.
Bill hooks are, to my mind, the modern equivalent of the Bronze Age "halberds", which are not halberds at all. Here we call them "ditch blades" or "bank blades". I don't have one of any of those, But they do a fine job of cleaving skulls, in any iteration. I'm crap at working bronze, so I'll never have a bronze age halberd.
Hand axe, as in flint hand axe? I don't have one of those, either!
i I used to forge tomahawks out of leaf springs. leaf springs are hard to beat for cutting implements. They have the right steel to take the right temper.
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