|
23rd May 2024, 11:21 PM | #1 |
Member
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Chino, CA.
Posts: 216
|
Yeah I feel like this thing is fairly solid. Like it could easily be used for bush whacking with no damage to it. And I don't think it being rather common or somewhat before the periods of big interest really matters. It's got a good story to it that plays out over decades. Perhaps a few details of which are not entirely true or accurate. But fun none the less. It will be a neat side project to make a new sheath for it as well that looks close to what the original might have.
|
24th May 2024, 01:31 AM | #2 |
Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 419
|
The inscription on the blade in question is pretty crude. This might lend itself to the idea that it is an early example, lacking the more sophisticated inscription and metal finishing in the later so-called "tourist" iterations.
Or perhaps it was made to emulate the successful tourist blades, but by a smith whose skills were less advanced, less commercial. Closer to a folk art piece, IMO, and possibly an early post-WWII example. Last edited by Bob A; 24th May 2024 at 05:48 AM. |
25th May 2024, 10:12 PM | #3 | |
Member
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Chino, CA.
Posts: 216
|
Quote:
Both the possibilities you've presented occurred to me. Also that it could even be both simultaneously. Perhaps not even a smith. Maybe just some one who had a knife, had a file, and needed some money. There are just soooo many file marks on this afterall. They seriously don't show well with my camera and lighting. But someone went to work on it. Like I said in my original post, the guard doesn't even appear to have been brazed to the blade. Rather (in person at least) it seems very obvious that someone filed the final shape of the guard with it in place and made an effort to work it up against the blade and close that gap as much as they could to make it look brazed. I thought it was brazed for a second before I really looked at it. So it seems likely they didn't have the means to braze it. |
|
|
|