The Scythe as a weapon.

Peter Hudson · 4th October 2023, 10:34 PM

It was apparently an easy job for a blacksmith to take the Scythe Blade off and re align the connection for a shaft so that the blade became a spear like extension . That is apparent in English and Polish examples of this weapon. Making a sword would be more complicated ...perhaps that is why not so many sword examples exist...

Actually post 37 shows the different stages a scythe blade needed to go through to do the work...

Regards, Peter Hudson.

4th October 2023, 10:34 PM	#15
Peter Hudson Member Join Date: Jul 2020 Posts: 315	It was apparently an easy job for a blacksmith to take the Scythe Blade off and re align the connection for a shaft so that the blade became a spear like extension . That is apparent in English and Polish examples of this weapon. Making a sword would be more complicated ...perhaps that is why not so many sword examples exist... Actually post 37 shows the different stages a scythe blade needed to go through to do the work... Regards, Peter Hudson.