Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by kaywoodie
I pack this knife around a bunch here lately. Made by the same fellow woh made my big knife I posted earlier. Turned walnut handle.

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Very cool, but to modern sensibilities, those knives look to us like the sorts of knives a chef might use rather than being dedicated fighting knives.


They are kitchen butcher knives! 😁😁😁 What do you think everyone carried back then? Trade knives were butcher knives. Plain and simple. Look at the Perkins/Shively bowie. This is pretty much the accepted Bowie most likely used by James and Rezin!

Here’s one of Tim Ridge’s interprétations of a French trade (kitchen) knife. It has a good stout blade that will take some abuse. I use it for my Schweinfanger because of it’s 9" length. Perfect in the kitchen, or on the belt! 😉.

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In the entire history of our country, I bet there's been many more people killed with a kitchen knife than any other type knife.

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