a relatively simplistic design intended to be mass manufacturable where machete or even hand and a half sword sized versions of this will still make a lot of sense
Looks decent,. even if you did mess up the edge a bit. And it still cuts ok so that's not much of a downside. I think they would definitely have had an axe and or a hatchet / tomahawk. From what I've seen from depictions of hunters etc from that time period, much use was made of pack animals. So there'd be little problem with taking those sort of tools along with them.
Perhaps ideally a hatchet and a medium sheath knife, such as this, as well. Then with Nessmuk, the folding pocket slicer was added, and the Trifecta Of Blades was baptized. Nowadays some people switch out the hatchet for a folding saw, which depending on the task will work quicker and more cleanly as well as packing light.
@@dongkhamet1351 Indeed, but I think it all depends on where they were going, and what they wanted to do when they got there. Nessmuk of course was going ultra light, but a fur trapper probably wouldn't, and neither I suspect would hunters. Both of those would definitely have pack horses / mules. But for carrying on there person, your probably not far wrong. 🙂
Very nice knife and video. I love that straight back full belly blade design. I know that several other people call that shape a “trade knife” and “scalping knife” but what historical evidence do you know to support that descriptive name? Why is this straight back/ full belly design called a scalping knife? Rather than a trailing point blade, bull nose butcher knife blade, or spear point blade shape?
@@timbo66scalping and trade are throwbacks to 19th century America. As distasteful as it might be to modern prople scalps were worth a bounty in some parts of the frontier. Scalping knife just referred to large bladed knives. As for trading, knives were a rare commodity on the frontier as black smithing was hard to come by. Blacksmithing was only found in estsblished towns and military forts. So knives were a precious commodity. Bartering made up the most part of frontier economy so knives were traded for goods such as food and pelts. I suspect that there were British knives based on romanticized vernacular from the American frontier.
