Rhyfelwr Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 I've been making these off and on for a while, and this is one I made sorta for myself. Handle is Osage, pins are copper. Blade is a peice off an old anchor for a power pole.. Not a galvanized one so must be pretty old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyGeorge Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Good job. That's a nice looking folder. I have one similar. But with antler handle and I didn't put the stop pin in the back of the handle. I like that idea. Thanks for sharing. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marksnagel Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 That is a cool little folder! Nice job. Glad you mentioned that it wasn't galvanized, that was one of my first thoughts. That will help keep others from using galvanized and keep you from getting a tirade of answers about the evils (which are real) of using galvanized. I like the folder. Mark<>< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golgotha forge & anvil Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 great looking folder ! Gene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 What is the hidden tang part pf this? as a folder, I am not sure if it technically has a tang... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyfelwr Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 I call it a "hidden tang" because the tang/tail(?) of the blade hides inside the handle when open? I'm not sure what else to call it, on some of my other knives the tang rests on the handle as a stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba-san Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Nice little blade I believe its a friction folder called a higonomaki , I know the japanese have been making them for at least 200 years , not sure of the true origin ? maybe chinese... . I do like it a lot. Bubba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higonokami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 At the Deutsches Klingen Museum you can see examples of folders from Roman times, say 1800 years ago and in "Knives and Scabbards, Museum of London" there are examples from the middle ages in Europe---around 800 years ago. They were quite common in the early 1800's in America. No need to go to the far east to find examples! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba-san Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Historicly , a friction folder was excavated in Hallstatt it carbon dated to 600 Bc , similar blades were excavated in china that dated to 300 BC . there must have been some early contact between the two countries . Origin of the first makers is unknown ? I suspect the knife is older than one would think . another odd bit of info . The first metal tool makers were the american indians ? In the great lakes region examples of metal tools , made from float copper were dated to 7500 BC . The people of the middle east were the first jewelry makers . just some odd info I picked up as I was studying Archaic archeology at Washington Univ. in St louis Best regards Bubba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I totally disagree that evidence of similar objects indicates that both cultures must have contact! I myself have run into things that I have "invented" only to find that someone else had the same good idea several thousand miles elsewhere in a country I have never visited. (Look how many folks claim to have been the first to do smithing in a certain way only to learn that folks 2000 years ago had been doing it that way too! There was a fellow who was claiming he started the neo-tribal use of charcoal for forging blades; which I felt funny about as I had been forging with charcoal for a decade before he claimed first use; I never though anything about it as I know that charcoal had been used continuously for forging from the start of the iron age to *now*!) Like pattern welding: every area that made use of the bloomery method of making wrought iron seems to have come up with pattern welding too---perhaps the drawing out of wrought iron blooms and cutting and stacking and welding them repeatedly to refine wrought iron gives them the hint. Many cultures like to claim that they invented something and everyone else copied them. Unfortunately when new well documented finds in other places show they were not first then suddenly "independent invention" is often claimed. I think it would be best if folks worried about being *best* rather than *first*! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba-san Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 You are correct in that some techniques were developed independently , scientificly speaking "contact" is the normal way of passing along ideas . As a trained archeologists You can only rely on current evidence and carbon dating etc: The dates I gave you are correct , directly from smithsonian archives . There is definate proof that the early copper culture amerinds from the great lakes area were the first real tool makers that utilised metal . See article from central states archeological society. I guess best is ok but, not in a foot race, first is better. I have been a swordsmith since I was 17 , I am now 64 . I studied in japan for 11 years while I was in military. I only rely on good basic evidence not speculation. The indians did not claim they were first , archeologists from the area did. The amerinds are long gone . respectfully....... James J Bieler Bubba-san forge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagkver Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 well I like the little knife I don't care who had one like it first, good job on it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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