I bought this thing off a flea market junk table years ago.
Why?
No idea, except my wife wanted it.
She had me make her a pair of oak hangers and mount it on the kitchen wall right over the breakfast bar.
(I’m here to tell ya, you don’t want to get in an argument with her over your poached egg on toast & orange flavored Metamucil either!)
I have no clue who made it, or why?
If you have any ideas what it was made for, I’d like to hear them?
It is hand forged, 3/8” thick at the tang, with a 11 ¼” blade, 20 ½” OAL, and weighs over 2 pounds.
It has a taper tang, and tapered blade.
Unfortunately, whoever forged it apparently didn’t know much about steel selection, or tempering.
I tried using it for brush clearing once, but the blade edge flaked out like a flint arrow head, or rolled over every hit on a little green sapling.
Oh well!
My wife still likes it 20 years later!
She even takes it down and dusts it occasionally.
Sometimes, she even gets The Thousand Yard Stare while dusting it and looking at me.
I would love to get rid of it.
But it would leave holes in the kitchen wall I’d have to patch if I took it down.
rc
Why?
No idea, except my wife wanted it.
She had me make her a pair of oak hangers and mount it on the kitchen wall right over the breakfast bar.
(I’m here to tell ya, you don’t want to get in an argument with her over your poached egg on toast & orange flavored Metamucil either!)
I have no clue who made it, or why?
If you have any ideas what it was made for, I’d like to hear them?
It is hand forged, 3/8” thick at the tang, with a 11 ¼” blade, 20 ½” OAL, and weighs over 2 pounds.
It has a taper tang, and tapered blade.
Unfortunately, whoever forged it apparently didn’t know much about steel selection, or tempering.
I tried using it for brush clearing once, but the blade edge flaked out like a flint arrow head, or rolled over every hit on a little green sapling.
Oh well!
My wife still likes it 20 years later!
She even takes it down and dusts it occasionally.
Sometimes, she even gets The Thousand Yard Stare while dusting it and looking at me.
I would love to get rid of it.
But it would leave holes in the kitchen wall I’d have to patch if I took it down.
rc
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