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12-10-2014, 03:47 PM #1Senior Member
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I found a new blade I'm trying to get some info on. It is a pre 1891 7/8 wade and butcher. What I want to know is if the blade had a barbers notch at one time and maybe someone modified it or was it forged this way? I 've never seen one that looked like it. Has anyone else? I apologize for the terrible photos.
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12-10-2014, 07:06 PM #2Senior Member
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Am a newb, but I believe I saw a couple like that browsing a thread on "tapered blades". Might also have been "tapered spine".
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Search "tapered" or "tapered blades" in the forum searchHighwayman likes this."Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."-Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
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12-11-2014, 05:59 PM #4Senior Member
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Not a tapered blade. If you look at the ledge on the tang, that would have extended along the whole blade. This one was heavily reshaped, likely originally had a barbers notch. It probably looked something like this:
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