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8th February 2007, 09:30 AM
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Hmmm... It seems to me that this piece is a variation of Japanese nata, or gardening tool. This might explain the strange title of "forestry knife". They are tools, but in a scuffle, I guess it would be better than nothing (think "straight razor" in a street fight). The handle is right-on, but the blades on nata are typically shaped more like a chopper.
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8th February 2007, 10:19 AM
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Location: Magenta, Northern Italy
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I concur with M.Eley.
The therm "Nata" has a quiet large meaning as regards shape of blade and is sometimes misused for a type of Tanto (Kubikiri) that was used to severe the heads of the enemy for later display, that has a shape vaguely similar to your blade, that IMHO is still a tool and not a weapon. The following first is called Nata, the second I'm not so sure... 
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14th February 2007, 10:33 PM
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Hello All!
So this is a Japanese Nata/Kubikiri. How old could it be? Could this knife have been longer once then later cut down into it's odd shape? I forgot to mention that it has a large single fuller on the "flat" side. Could there be a makers mark under the handle? Mark... Last edited by Aurangzeb; 15th February 2007 at 04:21 AM. |
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16th February 2007, 08:45 PM
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