05-07-2018, 03:02 PM
I understand your description and what you compare with - but I daubt that what you say is the reason for the fuller.
This is a nomad people, they dont even have a hammer, the hammer weight is to much to carry with them... They probebly bought or trade their knifes from other people - and that people made this blade with the big fuller for just this people by command. No big fuller - and they did not by the blade. No other people innthe area or xlose ro this area use this blade type...
The Sami people I lived with bought their blades in Borway from blacksmiths there - and so did i to start with, later I found a blade Smith in Sweden that made fantastic good blades (I started ro make knifes during the sixties).
Blacksmiths design their blades on demand from thwir customers - and after a while he find a design everyone in the area like to have. All did makes Scandi type blades - but the blades has small differances so people could se what blqdesmith that have make the blade. Some Sami only bought blades from a specific bladesmith bescouse he makes "the best blades". Not only the blade design waa important, also steel quality and hardening was important.
Well home again the Sami people make the handle and sheath them self.
This is a typical nomad way to do things - ans buisness.
When nomads work in wood they try to find a balance of so light and strong things as possible. Everything shall be as light as possible, this becouse they must carry eveeything them self - or their reindeers will carry them. To own a lot of things give them trouble with weight... Tye flat side works like a plain if you hold the handle in one hand and the blade neck in your other hand and a piece of wood in your third hand
(Joking). Planning give good surfaces and less weight. That can be why the right side of the blade are plain, compare with japanese knifes, they have the left aide of the blade plain - not the right side = the Yakot people did not use the flat side for slicing,.,but - slicing frozen meat cab be a possibilitie = they "plaining" of frusen meat in thin slices with this knifes flat side against the meat - and I can see that the fuller then give less possibility to freeze and fasten in the meat... But my knife never fasten in frozen meat ... That is a problem with this idea....
Thomas
This is a nomad people, they dont even have a hammer, the hammer weight is to much to carry with them... They probebly bought or trade their knifes from other people - and that people made this blade with the big fuller for just this people by command. No big fuller - and they did not by the blade. No other people innthe area or xlose ro this area use this blade type...
The Sami people I lived with bought their blades in Borway from blacksmiths there - and so did i to start with, later I found a blade Smith in Sweden that made fantastic good blades (I started ro make knifes during the sixties).
Blacksmiths design their blades on demand from thwir customers - and after a while he find a design everyone in the area like to have. All did makes Scandi type blades - but the blades has small differances so people could se what blqdesmith that have make the blade. Some Sami only bought blades from a specific bladesmith bescouse he makes "the best blades". Not only the blade design waa important, also steel quality and hardening was important.
Well home again the Sami people make the handle and sheath them self.
This is a typical nomad way to do things - ans buisness.
When nomads work in wood they try to find a balance of so light and strong things as possible. Everything shall be as light as possible, this becouse they must carry eveeything them self - or their reindeers will carry them. To own a lot of things give them trouble with weight... Tye flat side works like a plain if you hold the handle in one hand and the blade neck in your other hand and a piece of wood in your third hand
(Joking). Planning give good surfaces and less weight. That can be why the right side of the blade are plain, compare with japanese knifes, they have the left aide of the blade plain - not the right side = the Yakot people did not use the flat side for slicing,.,but - slicing frozen meat cab be a possibilitie = they "plaining" of frusen meat in thin slices with this knifes flat side against the meat - and I can see that the fuller then give less possibility to freeze and fasten in the meat... But my knife never fasten in frozen meat ... That is a problem with this idea....
Thomas