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- BennytheBlade
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Someone tell me about this one
http://bladeauction.com/cgi-bin/osa/Vie ... ber=720229
I dont think Ive seen anything like it before.
I dont think Ive seen anything like it before.
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It's a Corscican/Sicilian style version of a switch that doesn't switch.These tend to get used much more then switches and not for opening mail or packages. I think Vendettas were fixed but maybe not. I see alot of those on Italian sites and they are cool. Most are lockless. More of a clasp type. I really should get one they go with the collection. That one is new and at $180 seems steep for new. Do a google on Vendetta knives and take it from there. This one seems a tad overpriced for what it is.
PB
It's a Corscican/Sicilian style version of a switch that doesn't switch.These tend to get used much more then switches and not for opening mail or packages. I think Vendettas were fixed but maybe not. I see alot of those on Italian sites and they are cool. Most are lockless. More of a clasp type. I really should get one they go with the collection. That one is new and at $180 seems steep for new. Do a google on Vendetta knives and take it from there. This one seems a tad overpriced for what it is.
PB
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that guy has a lot more on his site, ....PB check this out http://www.knivescollection.com/catalog ... ltello=136
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Supposedly, the actual "vendetta" knives couldn't be closed after opening and the blades, near the bolster, were fileworked so as to make it easy to break off once you plunged it to depth. This is where the term "break-one-off-in-you" came from. Just a little history passed on to me by an old "Salt" who was stationed in Italy for several years.
He said the reason for not being able to close it, was once you started a vendetta, you didn't stop until you finished it or they finished you.
You were only supposed to use it for the vendetta you bought it for and that's the reason for the breakable blade. Or so he said.
Steve
He said the reason for not being able to close it, was once you started a vendetta, you didn't stop until you finished it or they finished you.
You were only supposed to use it for the vendetta you bought it for and that's the reason for the breakable blade. Or so he said.
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quote="Pushbutton"]Yeah I did Mr Bigg
Check out worldofweapons .com I think they have all that shit there but the prices are high.
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Did I find the wrong world of weapons? Just fine items from asia, that any drugstore Ninja would treasure. No scarce, old, euro-cutlery or I'm doing something wrong and not finding the good stuff.
Check out worldofweapons .com I think they have all that shit there but the prices are high.
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Did I find the wrong world of weapons? Just fine items from asia, that any drugstore Ninja would treasure. No scarce, old, euro-cutlery or I'm doing something wrong and not finding the good stuff.
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That story sounds a little suspect to me.
Knowing a few Corsicans, if they could only use one knife to a vendetta, a lot of them would be carrying half a dozen at a time-they hold grudges worse than us Irish.
That flat top on the end of the backspring looks like it might be a picklock, or at least the vestige of one, and could easily have spawned the legend of the knife you couldn't close(remember my mention of the 'iron palm' stiletto?).
As to filework to help break it off, what about having it snap off during your showdown with the poor schmuck who blew his nose while standing in your second cousin's shadow, or broke wind while your mother was in church?
That might be inconvenient indeed, leading to your being beaten to a pulp with a dung-fork, and three thousand deaths on the island of Corsica, in the ensuing vendettas.
Eschew the ways of violence, they only bring sorrow.
(English translation; Piss me off, die by inches!)
Knowing a few Corsicans, if they could only use one knife to a vendetta, a lot of them would be carrying half a dozen at a time-they hold grudges worse than us Irish.
That flat top on the end of the backspring looks like it might be a picklock, or at least the vestige of one, and could easily have spawned the legend of the knife you couldn't close(remember my mention of the 'iron palm' stiletto?).
As to filework to help break it off, what about having it snap off during your showdown with the poor schmuck who blew his nose while standing in your second cousin's shadow, or broke wind while your mother was in church?
That might be inconvenient indeed, leading to your being beaten to a pulp with a dung-fork, and three thousand deaths on the island of Corsica, in the ensuing vendettas.
Eschew the ways of violence, they only bring sorrow.
(English translation; Piss me off, die by inches!)
Life has no value, but death has it's price
If the knife locks at all I think it would be a type of lockback using the tabs on the end.
Typically Sicilian or Roman knives had a ring to pull up the lock. Some had a lever on the handle (sistema francese/French method) to lift it. This was possibly an ancestor to the rotating bolster.
Typically Sicilian or Roman knives had a ring to pull up the lock. Some had a lever on the handle (sistema francese/French method) to lift it. This was possibly an ancestor to the rotating bolster.
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Goldoni: La donna di Garbo, 1753
Goldoni: La donna di Garbo, 1753