Originally Posted by
gugi
Yeah, that's true, though it's not centered even with that into account. Still a lot more centered than if one imagines a full round point. Plus there's the steel removal part too. It's one thing to do it before heat treating and completely different on a hardened steel. The former suggest a lot more intention.
One thing for sure is that it's not something that caught on and became mainstream otherwise we'd have seen more. Whether it was an experiment, or salvaging a mistake/waste is probably impossible to say.
Or may be somebody will find a big pile of them like those heljestrands with chipped heels and we'll be scratching our heads even more.