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if you want to keep discussing about the knife, i will move it for you..<br>
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O you fortunate man!<br>
Feel free to do whatever you consider appropriate, Jeroen!<br>
Anyway, I think that our discussion about the knife could be already over but if the part of the thread concerning the knife would be moved to Re-en and re-cons with a suggestive title(Spanish late Roman knife?) maybe some others would join (or not! )<br>
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That's true, and although Aitor answered the most important of my questions concerning his knife, I would be more than happy to have further discussion about it! It is quite a beautiful knife, I wish that I could make one! <p>Lucius Aurelius Metellus, miles gregarius, Secunda Brittanica</p><i></i>
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ok (back from vacation),<br>
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i´ve moved the thread.<br>
Unfortunatly i can´t move a part of the thread, only the entire thread.<br>
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Hi Aitor, I love your fine knife and scabbard! I did not know it before an I envy you for having it .<br>
It's curious: it has some resemblance to the multifunctional knife (K-tool) I designed in 1995 for the Maggi Design Competition where I got for it a honorable mention, a money prize and the travel to Frankfurt for the award ceremony and party at the Nestlè Haus (loads of fine girls at the party! ). BTW, I think it could be an effective weapon in a fight... Even if this prototype has a too fat blade (it's chromed brass), the further development was all hi-tech ceramic and much more thin.<br>
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Some pics of K-tool:<br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/K-tool_3.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/K-tool_1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/K-tool_4.jpg" style="border:0;"/> <p></p><i></i>
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Really surprising!<br>
The handles of the Simancas type knives are too short to accomodate the whole hand, therefore, when you grasp my replica, you put almost instinctively your index finger in the slit and your thumb on the blade's back, where it is, moreover, useful to help pressing the knife while you're cutting. I think that it would be very useful as a hunting knife!<br>
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Hi Aitor,<br>
Did you ever find any information concerning wooden handles on the Simancas knives? If there are no surviving remnants of wooden handles, and no published drawings of them, would it be safe to make a wooden handle turned on a lathe in a similar style to your metal handle? Also, do any of the knives have a flat, "rat tail" tang, or are they all rod tangs? I may be guessing wrong, but it appears to me your knife may have a rod tang, as the diameter and shape of the handle looks as though the tang would have to be small. By "rod tang", I mean a tang made from round stock, welded to the blade. I am wondering if any of the tangs were flat, with rivets passing through the tang to hold the handle in place? <p>Lucius Aurelius Metellus, miles gregarius, Secunda Brittanica</p><i></i>
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Lucius,<br>
I haven't forgotten that I have to search on my books about that for you!<br>
The tang of my knife is a rod, of course, and a good cutler should forge it in one piec with the blade, otherwise it will break.<br>
Tehre are more kinds of handles but the rod tang is the commonest one and I recall some nude tangs that should correspond to lost (turned?) wooden handles.<br>
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