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7/9/2025, 3:24:04 AM
>>63958680
you can put the exact same grip shape on both sword and messer. you can put the exact same surface material on them. they can be identical in every way, if the maker so desired. while most messer grips are more slab-sided and rectangular or octagonal, not all were. While most were bare wood, not all were.
I just wanted to respond to the "the knife handle doesnt feel right" as a fun little comment that you can have the same style if you wanted, because they're fun like that. there's a lot of variation.
The whole bit about construction and whittle tangs with the various bits of evidence, on the other hand, was simply because that guy was both completely wrong, and a dick about it, by going "absolute tourists" like he knows more about a subject he was in fact completely wrong about. And because dickheads like that deserve to be shown that they are in fact, dicks.
you can put the exact same grip shape on both sword and messer. you can put the exact same surface material on them. they can be identical in every way, if the maker so desired. while most messer grips are more slab-sided and rectangular or octagonal, not all were. While most were bare wood, not all were.
I just wanted to respond to the "the knife handle doesnt feel right" as a fun little comment that you can have the same style if you wanted, because they're fun like that. there's a lot of variation.
The whole bit about construction and whittle tangs with the various bits of evidence, on the other hand, was simply because that guy was both completely wrong, and a dick about it, by going "absolute tourists" like he knows more about a subject he was in fact completely wrong about. And because dickheads like that deserve to be shown that they are in fact, dicks.
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