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7/9/2025, 2:13:33 AM
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>"confidentlyincorrect": the messer post.
that's a very nice, simple statement.
its also totally wrong. You see, knife handles were constructed both with scales, and with a stick, or "whittle tang".
So a messer handle might be two scales. But the exact same messer can also have an enclosed wooden core - that whittle tang, with a leather grip over it (or no leather.) and its still a messer.
In fact, there's a change in messers in the 16th century, with increasing numbers of whittle tanged messers, which reflects the same shift in popularity of domestic knives being made with whittle tangs.
>"confidentlyincorrect": the messer post.
that's a very nice, simple statement.
its also totally wrong. You see, knife handles were constructed both with scales, and with a stick, or "whittle tang".
So a messer handle might be two scales. But the exact same messer can also have an enclosed wooden core - that whittle tang, with a leather grip over it (or no leather.) and its still a messer.
In fact, there's a change in messers in the 16th century, with increasing numbers of whittle tanged messers, which reflects the same shift in popularity of domestic knives being made with whittle tangs.
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