any excuse to post sharp objects is a good one.here's the finnish puukko. comes in many varieties, often with regional variations depending on very local craftsmen from small villages. this example is probably from härmä desu.
this is a omani khanjar. khanjar means cool-looking knife in arabic, jk. it has a few cousins in the arab peninsula but generally a very distinctive curved sheath and a sligthly curved blade.
as you can see there's probably some manner of ancestry to this and the khanjar.
Bollocks dagger. Bollocks with a full shaft.>>65005115>khanjarIts arabic for dagger as I know
>>65005115According to my uncle Yusuf all a man really needs is a good pesh-kabz and a Colt .45
>>65005108What's a knife, anyways? Are short swords knives? Is ottoman yatagan just a long knife? Is the japanese tanto just a short sword?
Sheffield Bowies are interesting. Sheffield had a huge cutlery industry and made loads of knives for the American market. This included everything from practical tools like butcher's or skinning knives to folding pocketknives and weapons. Bling was a marketing factor and there were lots of interesting designs made specifically for the American West.
>>65005161They were not above using memes to advertise their knives either.
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>>65005171>california knifeIn modern day, this would imply that its neuteredhow the times have changed
>>65005161This folding design dates from that era as well. Today the Chinese & the Indians knock these off but the originals are old.
>>65005197The guard folds into place as the blade is deployed.
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>>65005154Yo that wouldn't be bad for bony fish, paired with a super whippy filet knife.
The Sami knife, or stuorraniibi, or leuku. It's like a puukko, but bigger.
Rybička (fishie). If you didn't have one as a kid in Czechia/Czechoslovakia, your childhood probably sucked and your parents didn't love you.Not a great knife, though, but nostalgia is a powerful feeling.
>>65005108Roach Belly. Named for its shape, resembling the belly of a roach fish, it was a common knife in 18th century England and flourished in Colonial America.
>>65006266Fugg, forgot pic.
Arkansas Toothpick, an important dagger on the early frontier and forerunner to the Bowie.
Ancient Egyptian daggers are pretty cool.
>>65006466>a dagger made from a meteorite
>>65005230>A CALIFORNIAN>ask for nothing but what is>RIGHT>and submit to nothing that is>WRONGHoly fuck it's like the 19th century version of one of those forklift operator shirts
>>65005980pretty cool desu. why the long blade?
>>65005172Bowies knives were illegal to carry in Texas up until a few years ago. Meanwhile they've been legal in California this whole time. Laws are funny that way.>>65006290>forerunner to the BowieThey're contemporaries to each other, not directly related.>>65006938To chop things.
ContribootinTaiwanese lalaw sword. Used by the indigenous tribes for headhunting until it was outlawed by the Japanese occupation. Distinctive for their open-faced scabbard to drain water given Taiwan's tropical climate.
Shilin Cutter, traditional Taiwanese folding pocket knife that's been around since the 1800s. Used to very common as an affordable working knife. Ironically, the shilin cutter was killed by even cheaper mass-produced Chinese factory knives and only survives now through bespoke custom versions with fancy steels.
I always liked Cinquedea from Italy, although some of them definitely push out of dagger and into sword.
>>65006938>>65005980>>65006956Over time any frontiersman's knife (and most infantry side-swords) inevitably evolves into a heavy utility blade somewhere just on the edge of a hunting-sword or machete. Can't have it break when you use it as an axe, has to be a bit lighter and more maneuverable than a sword, there's pretty much one middle ground if you want to use it as a tool. Even seaxes eventually wound up being machete hybrids
>>65007125Carcinisation
Japanese traditional hunting knives. The interesting one is in the center. These have various regional names: Matagi-nagasa, Okutani-to, Fukuro-nagasa. They are a single-bevel blade with a socket handle, the idea being that you can fit a wooden pole to make a spear or a tool for foraging.
>>65007488Another example
Swedish m1896 "Watchmaker Knife"
>>65007488Similar to pic rel
This was a common pattern of large knife in the Confederacy.
The "Green River Skinner". These were very popular on the American frontier.
This style of pocketknife was popular in the late 1800's and has a number of unusual features that you won't find today.The big hook at the top is a 'hoof pick' and was used for cleaning a horse's hooves. The two screws just below it are removable and can be used for harness repairs. There is a pair of nuts on the back side of the knife which aren't visible in the photo but would be removed along with the screws. The thing to the right of the corkscrew is a curved punch that can make holes for said screws to fit into. The short stubby blade with a thumb stud on it is an early style of can opener. The hook next to it is a button-hook, important in the days before zippers. The thing at the far right, next to the small knife blade, is a shotgun shell extractor used to pull stuck cases out of your gun. Knives like this often had stag handles, but nickel silver aka 'German silver" was common too.
>>65007680Slightly later model pocketknives with a different type of shell extractor
>>65005108Swiss daggers from around 1560
>>65007727more sword oriented one from 1500
>>65007731modern Swiss officer daggers have the same traditional halfmoon down pattern for the crossguard
HigonokamiThese are simple Japanese pocket knives. Blades vary, some are modern steels others are traditional laminated construction. They usually have a little tab near the base of the blade that you can use to flick the knife open quickly.
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picrel is from Inner Mongolia, China.Lots of men and some women carry these with them, Mongolians especially but also Han.They're used for eating, a form of hotpot that's popular in the region is lamb chopped up almost randomly in double-fist sized chunks and boiled in a broth with a few spices and root vegetables. Common in winter.You take the chunks of boiled meat and shave off slices with these knives and dip them in a chilli sauce that has a fermented bean paste base.It's breddy gud
A Victorian gentleman's smoking knife.The little fork could be used to hold the stub end of cigars, sort of like a roach clip. There are picks for cleaning out a pipe, and the round disc folds over the end to form a tamper for packing the tobacco.
>>65007819Tamper in position ready to use.
>>65007680I find legacy items like these interesting. They were around in a time where horses were the main thing to move things around besides boats and trains. Old larders and houses, they all had a steel ring mounted in the wall to tie the horse to when doing the hooves or saddling. It's a fun bit of trivia when i point it out to other people, a simple steel ring in a wall can be quite interesting!
>>65007890I don't have any pics available and google is being fucking retarded so picrel is the best I can find, but "coach keys" were once a very common thing. These were a tapered or stepped square tool with a T-handle, sometimes built into other tools like pockeknives or corkscrews, and were used to open the doors of horse-drawn carriages, and then later for the doors on the private cabins in railway cars. I think the ones in this pic have built-in whistles. These were once incredibly common everyday items though today they're essentially unknown.
>>65007488>>65007491>>65007535Neat, so the CS Bushman isn't a 100% Total meme.
>>65007488>>65007491This style of handle is super common on large working knives, cleavers, billhooks and small machetes in Vietnam - and probably the rest of SEA as well.
Yakut knife. Note the fuller.
>>65006956CA knife laws are fucking weird, you can open carry a katana but you can't conceal a 3" fixed blade.
>>65008834Generally when you see a weird knife law, the reason is that some politician in 198X watched Return of the Revenge of the Ninjanator VII and had nightmares about the scene where Cliff Knifeedge used that particular banned item to shank a dirty politician for releasing enough crack to down an elephant into his niece's daycare or whatever.
>>65008909It it's a switchblade the fear came from picrel. If it's some exotic-looking Asian knife like a balisong then you can blame 80's action movies.
various Trattenbacher Taschenfeitl (Trattenbach pocketknife) from Austria. woodturned handle, metal clasp around it and no lock. blade length usually is of around 3 inches give or take.there used to be loads of families producing these in the town of Trattenbach (see the different symbols pressed into the blade, each maker had their own) but I believe today only a very small number of makers remain.I own one that was made as a decorative wallhanger with an almost 14 inch blade.
>>65008144Now that you mention it, I recall an example of that. I remember watching Anthony Bourdain visit Chan Che Kee, a famous cutlery company in Hong Kong. They whipped out a massive blade that was halfway between a cleaver and a brush ax, explaining that it was for "you know, when you need cut head off cow". IIRC it had that style of handle rather than the rat-tail tang and wooden handle typical on most kitchen knives.Speaking of Chan Chi Kee, we might as well talk about some other interesting blade designs. Picrel is a common pattern of butcher knife in Asia. It's specifically optimized for butchering hogs. These are heavy because they are so wide but the blades are maybe 1/4in thick at the handle and taper down towards the tip so they are really more of a super-wide knife than a "cleaver" IMHO.
>>65009463The mid-size general purpose meat cleavers sometimes have a hollow socket handle. Other times they have a hollow but closed-off metal handle, or a wood handle, but the big daddy is picrel. This is more like a full 3/8" or more thick all the way to the tip, and the blade actually gets wider near the tip as well. They are insanely front-heavy. This is the one that gets co-opted as a weapon in horror anime.
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French army camp knife, IMHO the best option if you want a "hobo style" knife. They are made in various colors, camo and hi-vis.
>>65007680Its called a Horsemans KnifeThis one dates to around the 1890's and was carried in the 2nd Boer war by a Sgt Major from Yorkshire and was made by a Scottish firm of Richardson in EdinburghThey're sort of the old timey multi-tool of the Victorian era really, quite a sizeable knife. It is missing the pick and tweezers in it that got lost sometime over the last century or so, the smaller blade also got replaced at some point in the 1950's. Handle scales are horn that have been checkered and in great shape all things considered.
>>65009588I've also heard them called "coachman's" knives, or perhaps "sportsman's" knives, but I think that one can debate the semantics endlessly. I happen to have a few, the most interesting is a 99% mint example by George Wostenholm of Sheffield, it's quite chunky also having a saw blade among other tools. It has a curious feature, serrated teeth at the base of the hoof pick, where it hinges into the bottom of the knife. I have heard different explanations for this feature. Some claim it is a nut cracker, I have also heard that it can be used to get a grip on leather harness to pull it tight.
>>65009650I think the later, more modern iterations of them got advertised as sportsmans knives and for a while there was a few variants sold as horsemans knives for the horsie-people out there that needed a hoof hook. Which isn't a hugely common item nowLike most of bits and pieces, they tended to have a purpose and what people use them for can be pretty varied. I think its also quite interesting that most of them don't usually have a can opener as those were not hugely common, but by goodness your ability to crack open looted bottles of wine was taken care of as a priority!
>>65009697I've noticed the terminology gets debated among collectors. Some people say that the hoof pick mean's a horseman's knife while a carriage key means a coachman's knife....okay, fine, but what happens if your knife has both? Likewise people sometimes say the shotshell extractor is a defining feature of a "sportsman's" knife, though I've seen plenty of old advertisements for "sportsman's knives" which lacked that.Speaking of opening bottles, the modern cap lifter and "crown cap" bottle-caps didn't exist back then. There was an alternate form of closure that was use on some bottles, especially champagne, that required its own special tool for opening. This was a thick, serrated, claw- or beak-like tool often called a "champagne hook". You sometimes come across those in old knives.
>>65010922>Speaking of opening bottles, the modern cap lifter and "crown cap" bottle-caps didn't exist back then. There was an alternate form of closure that was use on some bottles, especially champagne, that required its own special tool for opening. This was a thick, serrated, claw- or beak-like tool often called a "champagne hook".I tried to google what that might look like and what kind of closure was involved but got nowhere, champagne hooks are just champagne coloured wall hooks as far as google is concerned.
>>65006647Modern boomer culture is much older than you think.
>>65009463>>65009482>>65009494>>65009501At what point does a cleaver transition from being a knife to being a type of axe?
>>65010922You'll still get a champagne hook on a sommelier knife if you ever find yourself needing to cut through the foil or wax seal on bottles often enough.Which for polite society drunks does tend to mean no ones fumbling around with the table cutlery like like they're trying to fuck a football, being all cultured n shit
>>65011011Yeah, something happened to Google that made that particular search get turbo-fucked. It used to work fine years ago, today it's useless.You can see quite a lot of examples here:http://www.bullworks.net/daily/champagne.htm
>>65011164>You can see quite a lot of examples here:Thanks.Was the closure a wax seal over a cork?
>>65011043Personally, I'd say that a cleaver is a niche variant of an axe. Its primary use is chopping using the mass of the tool to do the work. On the other hand, I'd argue a kitchen "knife" is designed primarily for slicing.Speaking of which, you see a lot of these knives in Asia which people call a "chinese cleaver", but IMHO that is a misnomer. They might be rectangular like a cleaver but the blades are very thin and they are not used in the same manner.
>>65011176Yeah, a cork in the neck of the bottle tied down by wire or cord and then dipped in wax. You had that little beaked tool to dig into the wax, you'd work the tip under the wire/cords and use that to break them.I'm starting to guess that the hassle involved is what led to people "sabering" open champagne, because that's a hell of a lot faster. Plus it looks cooler & it's probably a lot more fun when you're already half blitzed.
>>65011195>Plus it looks cooler & it's probably a lot more fun when you're already half blitzedI saw that done a little while ago, someone brought a sabre to a party for the purpose.
>>65011185The cleaver was once the biggest source of butcher's work injuries prior to the invention of the bandsaw, they're pretty murderous things. At least when I've made them they're more or less suited to popping through joints, heavy cartridge and breaking through places like ribs and spine. Otherwise you do need the meatworks version of a hacksaw for big bones, well you can eventually blow through a beef thigh bone eventually with a cleaver with enough work but it tends to be 'not graceful' for a cut of meat.The 'chinese cooks knife' I've made a few of those over the years and seemingly one of the few people who does where I am, generally about 2mm thick at the spine and there's a few varieties depending on personal preference, some will have a slight curve at the tip and others are just dead-flat edge with nothing else. They are literally wafer thin and generally used for push-cutting through vast handfuls of veg and meats. They do everything with them in the kitchen and another nice feature is you can load up ingredients for cooking based on the cooking time.So if you've got a mix of meat and hard fibre that takes a while, load it up on the side of the knife and wok it, then your softer, quicker cooking greens get loaded up and dropped in lastThose tend to be fairly variable in size from 6 to 9" long and about 4" highThere is also chinese butcher knives as well which are sort of like an over-sized german chef's knife that's about 5mm thick, 3" tall and 8-10" long. Funnily enough I've never seen any Chinese use them but they're very popular all the way through SE-Asia and used for breaking carcasses, preparing cuts of meat and more than a few end up as general chefs knives in places like Bali.
>>65005108This is the typical tollekniv from Norway. Every man carried one as far back as the viking age, and it was a universal tool. I think the ones in the picture are mostly from the 1920s, and the red ones are Swedish from a very well known brand and region in Sweden. The knives are still common today, and I've used dozens of them over the years, and you'll usually find several old ones in every man's workshop, tool shed, tool box or tackle box. Some are usually so worn and has been sharpened so many times that half the blade is missing, so that it ends up looking like a fileting knife.Aside from those, most people also had a fancy knife in a similar style to go with formalwear, but that was primarily for decoration. That's a tradition that still exists in the form of the bunadskniv.
Scottish Sgian-dubh, nowadays worn in the top of the sock when wearing the kilt at formal events.Traditionally worn under the armpt or in the upper arm of your shirt as a surprise/self-defense weapon.
>>65005150Yusuf is a wise man.
>>65006479A god-king's blade made from a fallen star. That's fucking cool.
>>65011380looks extremely similar to puukkos desu
>>65011737The finns probably stole them from us.
>>65011380The one at the upper right looks like a sloyd knife, a common wood-carving tool all over Scandinavia.
Japanese kogatana. Literally "baby katana". These are all-purpose utility knives. They're commonly used as marking knives for woodworking, for delicate kitchen tasks (like a paring knife), crafts, etc. According to Toshio Odate, a Japanese carpenter, they were once so common that they were part of kid's mandatory school supplies and were used for sharpening your pencil in class, among other things.
>>65011831Modern versions made by Olfa. These are great value for crafts/workshop/etc.
>>65011841tacticool variant
>>65011797Yeah, we used to use them in sløyd back in middle school. I think that's also a Swedish knife by Mora.
>>65011841These are excellent as a light duty utility/pocket knife.The blade geometry works very well for small random tasks that come up in the workshop.
>>65011841Just seems like a large xacto knife
>>65011894It's a $130 box cutter, dude
>>65011918Yeah, basically. It's like a big #11.
>>65011943>$130whut? They're cheap. Under $10. The replacement blades are cheap too.https://www.amazon.com/Olfa-Craft-Kife-size-34B/dp/B000TGF9DI
>>65011968O dam, I must have seen the wrong one. That's legit, then
Recong, dagger of the Aceh people of Sumatra.
>>65012402How do you fight with that?Is it used blade upwards?What's the grip?I have so many questions.
Scottish Dirk, Pattern Welded steel
>>65013397Sgian Dubh to compliment it, both are razor sharp
>>65007537Somewhat similar to the European infantry dusacks. Used as melee weapon for infantry in support of bayonet or for troops that didn't have rifles. Basically a very crude and cheap sabre or machete.
>>65006098Heh some of them made their way into Poland, I remember seeing them on the fairs and markets when I was a kid.For me it would be finka (meaning Finnish knife), found on the belt or in the pocket of most scouts in Poland.Mine is only around 15cm long and has bakelite handle, made probably in the 80's, my mom used it when she was a girl scout and then gave it to me.
>>65011380I've got the Frost's Mora 2nd from top right back in the 80'sThought I'd lost it decades ago but it just showed up, kind of funny holding it now as its genuinely a tiny scout knife for kid-size hands
