Thread: Various Knives

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

That's amazing (a cutlass?), what sort of steel?

Not a cutlass which has a heavy curved blade, often used as a boarding sword by sailors or pirates. The hunting sword was a sword hunters carried for finishing off wounded game and was mostly used for stabbing much like a pig sticker but allowed the hunter to keep a little further away from thrashing hooves or slashing tusks. The steel is 1075 carbon steel. As it was only the financially well off that hunted the hunting sword was often elaboratley engraved and embellished and became a status symbol in that regard and was carried as a city sword.