isaac
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Post by isaac on Jul 29, 2013 6:44:41 GMT -7
I have a hand dag that I HAD to get because they are just way too common on records from the 1700-1800s here in Wisconsin and beyond, BUT... now that I have it, I never haul it around. Although it is a "smaller" 7 in. blade, it is just to big and unwieldy of a shape. Other than for fighting, is there any real practical use to one of these?? I am wondering if it is worth messing with or if I should just keep it with display stuff and not haul it into the woods and field.
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Post by Pare on Jul 29, 2013 8:50:20 GMT -7
Keep it for display. I have a Wilson knife with a 10" blade, that sits on the shelf. It was cool at the time, but there's really no need for a huge blade...unless you want to be the 19th c. version of Leatherface. :-)
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isaac
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Post by isaac on Jul 29, 2013 11:00:56 GMT -7
Keep it for display. I have a Wilson knife with a 10" blade, that sits on the shelf. It was cool at the time, but there's really no need for a huge blade...unless you want to be the 19th c. version of Leatherface. :-) Pare- BTW, Pare... speaking of utilitarian knives... do you still have that scalper for sale?? IW |
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Post by Pare on Jul 29, 2013 13:29:57 GMT -7
Yeah, I still have it. You pretty much talked me into keeping it. ;D I may sell it...I don't know.
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Post by isaac on Jul 29, 2013 16:42:50 GMT -7
Yeah, I still have it. You pretty much talked me into keeping it. ;D I may sell it...I don't know. Pare- Welll... I have some interest in it |
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Post by Rod on Jul 30, 2013 12:44:44 GMT -7
I posted this over on your board, Isaac:
"You've got to wonder on some of those trade items if there ever was any utility in the first place, or whether they simply 'looked cool'. Other examples would be the Missouri war hatchet or axe (wildly outsized head on a skinny short handle) or the spontoon tomahawk (again, huge head on tiny handle, very unwieldly). Everybody likes to look 'cool', people back then were just as susceptable to those impulse buys as we are today."
I'd also note that while many had handles (either bought that way or native made), a number ended up as spear points, pockamoggan blades, Blackfoot bear cult knives, etc. Definitely a showy fighting type blade, not very utlilitarian for other uses.
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Post by Pare on Jul 30, 2013 15:24:23 GMT -7
I certainly believe that and have did it myself with the Wilson knife. To me its more of a collectable and something I'll use for educational programs.
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