Primitive American Knives A Closer Look🇺🇸

[@RamonMarais-k2k]

Thank you again. I really like these old knives.

[@JimLander]

Thank for uploading this. It is cool to me, a knife loving historian and anthropologist. Please continue on!

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks Jim. Appreciate the support

[@chadgriffey6796]

ur a great creator youve got that authentic thang man keep it up

[@RonaldNorwood-kn4bo]

More fantastic historical blades! They are so hard to find below the Mason Dixon, not many end up in antiques stores here. Have found a handful picking old barns and sheds.

[@thegreyghost2789]

Thanks again for showing your collection. I love old knives, I wish they could tell us all the tales they've witnessed.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thank you for joining in

[@Troy440Dodge]

The knife you have with the stacked handle is most likely WW2, a Sailor or Marine's shipboard project. Very popular with Navy enlisted men, not quite as much with the Marines. Sadly, all too few have survived. Nice collection. Thank you for sharing.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks Troy. I have heard the soldiers sometimes used Cockpit covers for the laminate. Thanks for sharing

[@randallhutchinson9676]

The knife with the burl handle has the shape of Nordic knives. Beautiful piece of wood

[@moderntentcamping]

Have enjoyed your knife videos. I’m very interested in food prep knives from the American frontier. I have a few older knives but nothing much older than 1900. But I continue to look for those older knives.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks for watching and sharing. Wishing u the Best in your knife hunts

[@Jimthechevywheelman]

Man , I can listen to you all day! Great history lesson ! Thank you

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Hey Brother thanks. --My first Ride was a 1960’ Chevy Apache Fleetside’ short bed pickup. 327 small block

[@ricardoa6186]

Un video muy muy muy interesante,unas piezas espectaculares cargadas de historia,y no como hace casi todo el mundo ke se hincha a comprar navajas nuevas y enseñarlas,eso no tiene merito,esto si,muchas gracias me lo pasé genial viendo tu video

[@audramatney1148]

Keep them video's coming friend you have some great history on the table 👍

[@tylerlcollins1260]

Wow , I would have to say this is the best channel of its kind .

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Hey really appreciate your support. Best. Dwayne

[@benjaminbeyer2401]

This is definitely on my favorite video list thanks brother for sharing your passion

[@stevenshelton7998]

The mystery knife at 7.36 is most likely a farm tool for planting seedling trees. Called a dibbler. I have 3 of them. Two are identical to yours. When cutting a branch off a fruit tree to transplant, a huge hole to plant a small diameter branch was not necessary. Stick a dibbler in the ground and twist and a small hole is created. The forest service still uses dibblers when replanting a burn or harvest area. About every farm with fruit trees had several dibblers in the barn.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

I likely believe you’re spot on . I used a planting Bar back in early 70s working for forestry to plant seedling trees . Same concept. Thanks for sharing

[@CRIS.V1891]

Very nice collection you have there, some nice museum pieces ! 👍

[@edmedlin2936]

This is really interesting! I have several hundred knives, but none as old as yours. Makes me feel like making something, like a Bowie.

[@danielpeters3760]

You have awesome pieces brother keep on collecting. Good luck

[@mikeholder5838]

you have a world class collection

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks Mike. Appreciate you watching and sharing. Appreciate it

[@wizardofahhhs759]

Man, I wish I could come across cool old blades like these.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks for watching and sharing. Old stuff is out there. Sometimes ya gotta Dig. I found a huge Revolutionary war Dagger knife at bottom of a glass cabinet in antique store years ago. It was mostly covered up with other stuff

[@danielpeters3760]

The one I had from Africa was like a beaver tail double edge machete . It was pretty long with a hide wrapped handle. And the sheath was a dyed red sheath. I think your correct about blades . Have a look at African machete books. I am a case xx man lol.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks Daniel. Appreciate you watching and sharing. I’ll check out those Machetes. Some of those Blades are pretty cool. CASE -great Historical fine Cutlery 👍

[@radar468]

Better than most museums!

[@paulramos6767]

Take a shot every time he says spontoon.

[@chaffcutter58.]

Great work .

[@decal1751]

Wow that one is the mother of all push daggers lmfao 😂 cool though man love them old ones😊

[@anthonysarni2207]

Hey there, guess I should have been more specific in my comment about the leaf shaped blade on the previous video. The "style" was very reminiscent of the Zulu IKLWA short stabbing blade or spear used predominantly for close quarter warfare. Having been a Chef I too have always had a predilection for knifes and as such the different uses. Killer channel, outrageous collection of historical artifacts!

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Awesome Anthony I really appreciate you sharing. No doubt-For sure it has attributes of some of those knives -Honestly If this knife didn’t have a Curly Maple handle from the New England region I likely would have passed it up when I stumbled on it 30+ years ago. Thanks again. And truthfully,I am really just an Arm chair Novice on this stuff. I been wrong more than once. Appreciate you supporting the Channel. Best! Dwayne

[@firestorm8471]

That Halberd head may be much older than you think. It looks Spanish. Possibly 1500s early 1600s

[@JCOwens-zq6fd]

That dagger does have a form factor similar to a masai knife but i've also seen daggers/bowies attributed to natives & settlers alike back east in Southern Appalachia.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks for sharing!!’

[@tomritter493]

Great old blade dwayne

[@chrisborona5063]

What's up my brother from another mother. Stay sharp Stay dangerous. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Always my Brother ❤️🇺🇸

[@davidweinberg7833]

Nice Beaver!

[@leegibbs5387]

What you refer to as beaver tail style knives are what is called sticking knives used to stick and bleed out hogs and cattle. I am a butcher take my word for it.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks for sharing. Yes indeed pig stickers is a term often used with Double edge dagger type blades.

[@JimLander]

What makes you think the handlesss blade is a spear? I am inclined to think it is a knife but am open to what you say.

[@theodorehowe2262]

You can do a metallurgical procedure to determine where the metal originated from, I don’t think Africa has curly maple trees

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks for sharing. Yes sir. I have never seen a maple from that region.

[@Mushin-Flowstate]

The knife at 8:00 almost looks like a very simple qatar

[@JimLander]

That tomahawk is super. Want to sell, or trade it?

[@firestorm8471]

That huge ,push dagger looking thing has me completely stumped 🤔 I have studied the whaling industry a bit and have never seen a tool like that. I can really think of no practical use for that design to research it.? Maybe just a blacksmith tinkering with ideas ? Prototype kind of thing.

[@firestorm8471]

Research Massai Tribe knives from central Africa.

[@orionoutdoorsandworkshop5617]

funny how some of these knives that were carried and used daily were so fragile looking. compared to some of the new knives people insist you need to have in order to survive. one thing that may be helpful is that some of these knives were made from recycled butcher knives or even other items. a blacksmith would take someones junk and refashion it into a new useful item. so they were not actually factory made making them difficult to identify.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks for sharing. Yes indeed. Those earliest trade knives brought over on ships were thin blades-butcher,Scalpers etc. your correct,those were the type of knives used by most everyone-trappers,Natives,farmers etc. tomahawks and hatchets were used for heavy stuff and Hawks were a standard belt weapon carried by Colonial militia . The Big stout Bowie /fighting mountain man knives began to emerge after 1800’. Sheffield didn’t start crafting and exporting huge knives here until after the 1827’ sandbar Bowie/fight. The very earliest huge knives were typically blacksmith made from Files etc.

[@danfabisac]

Take a drink every time "spontoon" is said !

[@WilliamLalonde-p2q]

Curly maple in Africa ?

[@CuttingEdgetools]

@@WilliamLalonde-p2q thanks for watching. I have never seen a maple from that hemisphere. Would have to research.

[@facelift316]

Could that very large bladed one be an Indian style Katar blade? Maybe from Indian sailors or boatmen? Or slaves even? Those large hand blades were popular in India and South Western Asian countries like Malaysia and Indonesia..... Pretty sure they were originally invented by the Hashisham warriors as assassin blades.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Thanks for sharing. It does resemble a -Katar Knife. The blade is thin and very sharp. But It seems to have been forged out in N America . Seems I remember seeing another on the web that was very similar. Thanks for sharing