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Hello guys,In the last year I luckily had the chance to make some daggers and swords and as the new year got its first juvenile breaths I too had some fresh ideas, like shamefully I completely forgot about the common and poor men of the medieval era, the peasants.
So, it was a must to compensate and I quickly rushed to the forge (after my hangover passed of course
)I chose a knife as design with the simple "brute de forge" style with deep hammer marks and roughly made blood groove. The handle was brutishly hand carved and secured with iron rivets. All weathered to show some age
The sheath is also a simple one. Made of sturdy, thick cow hide with a beaten up look and a small medieval graffiti (yes there are such things!
) probably depicting Saint George and the Dragon found in Norwich.It is large enough to be used as a tool around the little turf a peasant can call home or to defend himself and his family against cutthroats, if he's fast enough to reach out for it!
The total length is 36 cm, the blade is 22 cm long, 37 mm wide and 6 mm wide. the handle is oak.
It is 155 usd, all fees included!
More pics here: www.facebook.com/csizmar.szila…
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It´s called a fuller, not a blood-groove. The purpose of the fuller has nothing to do with blood at all, it´s there to make the blade lighter and stiffer, due to the lack of good materials in the medieval period it was a way for the smith to use less materials in a knife aswell.
The term blood-groove coes from the belief that it would release the vacume from stabbing soeone with a blade, problem with that belief is that there likely wouldn´t be a vacum to hold blade after a trust, and even if there ended up being one, it´s not enough to make the blade more difficult to remove.
So to sum things up, blood-grove are not a thing, fullers lighten and stiffen blades, and wacumes formed in a human body after a trust would have less to say for removing it than the friction of the tissue surounding the blade, especially since a vacum can´t be a thing if the sides of a wound are directly on the blade.
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Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Sherlock...
Don't you think people use the term blood groove, cause it's simply sounds cooler?
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Sure, I just like to be correct with my terminology, sorry if I offended you, as that was never my intent.
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People always ride on terminology and semantics, pointing out parts that aren't important at all since I trade in hammered steel, not in linguistics. So yes, these kind of comments kind of pisses me off.
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Sorry, that´s just the kind of person I am.
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proper summary, blood-grooves don´t exist, they are called fullers. Fullers have nothing to do with blood, they are a way to make a blade lighter and stiffer.
At the same time this causes less material to be used in a blade, meaning the smith had more good steel on hand, as good steel, (or just iron as it was called back then, they had no separate term for steel) was rare to come by because it was difficult to make, as most smelting-pots back in the medieval period could make pig-iron/cast-iron with a very high carbon-content, or low carbon steel/mild steel. Most furnaces could onlyh make these two extremes, and the metal had to be forge-welded and llayered to make good blade-steel.
just wanted to clarify, the rambling just explains in more detail. If you skipped to here, just read then first two sentences as that is the important part.
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I really like this
and the "rough" look makes it look a lot nicer^^
Pretty long blade you have there
get the job done
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Thanks. My grandpa' had an old knife, probably made from a WWII baionette or something, which he used for stabbing and eviscerating pigs, when I was a kid. Unfortunately he and the knife is gone 
It's long enough to be good for hunting wild pigs in my imaginary medieval times
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I am sorry for you're grandpa :/
It really does look nice and it sure
seems usable in hunting
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Yeah, me too. I miss him.
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Nice work!
If you are looking for reference material on medieval knives you might want to get a copy of
Knives and Scabbards (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)
skyfiredragon.deviantart.com/a…
www.amazon.com/Knives-Scabbard…
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it sure looks useful! thanks for the tip
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Sure thing, I thought you might like it!
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Btw, you gave me the core idea
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well, now i have the ultimate proof that you are the right person for the germanic/celtic longknife
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And I would gladly make it!
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