LOHAR - Solving The Mistery

[katana]

Interesting post Radu....throughout history agricultural tools have been used as weapons. The link you posted to the previous thread mentions the Japanese Kama, a weapon which started life as an Agricultural implement and utilised as a weapon, when, if historians are correct, the carrying of legitimate weapons by peasants was banned.
I also noticed in that thread a picture and reference to a Lohar looking 'weapon' attributed to a tribal source (Bannochie)...surely they did not rely on them to break up ice blocks or sugar candy.....adopted as a weapon? or originally designed as a weapon ? Perhaps they evolved independently?

[Ian]

Radu:

Why do you think people went to the trouble of making folding versions of these ice picks?

Ian.

[Radu Transylvanicus]

Originally Posted by Ian

Radu:

Why do you think people went to the trouble of making folding versions of these ice picks?

Ian.

It makes perfect sense when you want to store them and carry them on you. Just like a giant folding knife, why would someone want a knife that folds, even though eventually less powerfull has a big advantage and gets most of the jobs done.

[Radu Transylvanicus]

Originally Posted by katana

I also noticed in that thread a picture and reference to a Lohar looking 'weapon' attributed to a tribal source (Bannochie)...surely they did not rely on them to break up ice blocks or sugar candy.....adopted as a weapon? or originally designed as a weapon ? Perhaps they evolved independently?

And why would Banoochies not want to use them as picks, what is so different about that than rest of lohars