BEIDANA unusual weapon Piedmont regions Italy

kronckew · 30th August 2025, 03:08 AM

Search the forum with BEIDANA, there are numerous examples posted with a lot of info. I've always wanted one. There is/was an old blacksmith in the region still making them in a variety of patterns. By the time I found him online (apparently his daughter did the online website) He was no longer making them and wasn't able to send them out from italy.

They came without sheaths/scabbards, the handle hook was for hanging in the barn, the tip loops and/.or holes were, i'm guessing' just decorations. They were apparently occasionally used as weapons when needed, much like the german bauernwehr.

Jim McDougall · 30th August 2025, 12:19 PM

Thanks so much for responding Wayne!
I sort of figured that they were more tool than weapon, but as always not that much space between the two. A weapon is pretty much anything that can be used AS a weapon.

30th August 2025, 03:08 AM	#1
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,259	Search the forum with BEIDANA, there are numerous examples posted with a lot of info. I've always wanted one. There is/was an old blacksmith in the region still making them in a variety of patterns. By the time I found him online (apparently his daughter did the online website) He was no longer making them and wasn't able to send them out from italy. They came without sheaths/scabbards, the handle hook was for hanging in the barn, the tip loops and/.or holes were, i'm guessing' just decorations. They were apparently occasionally used as weapons when needed, much like the german bauernwehr.

30th August 2025, 12:19 PM	#2
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,645	Thanks so much for responding Wayne! I sort of figured that they were more tool than weapon, but as always not that much space between the two. A weapon is pretty much anything that can be used AS a weapon.