Holes

[Danzo]

Why don't scandis and puukkos have lanyard holes?

:confused:

Danzo

[familne]

I'm sure there's a joke there someplace - just can't think of one :rolleyes:

[JohanB]

could you explain what a lanyard hole is? Maybe i can tell you.......

Thanks

Johan

[Danzo]

Of course Johan, I should have explained!

A lanyard is a piece of rope, cord, leather, string or even chain, that you connect to anything and place around your wrist so you do not drop it.

Many knives, including folders have a hole through the handle, near the butt, for such a cord, but I have not seen many on Scandinavian knives.

Maybe Scandinavians just don't drop stuff!

;)

Danzo

[MushiSushi]

on a cold and lonely scandinavian night ... the hole might become to inviting for the love starved scandinavian ...... :D

[JohanB]

Ahh. I understand. Well.... Normally i see knives without the hole, but i know about some factory made fishing knives with a lanyard hole, tho its not good to lose the knife in the sea ;) Hm.... i have also seen some knives with a lanyard hole with a piece of leather cord....At fact i dont really know! maybe its just *smag og behag*- your own taste.....

[ANDYLASER]

on a cold and lonely scandinavian night ... the hole might become to inviting for the love starved scandinavian ...... :D

Must be bloody cold and lonely for that!

[ZDP-189]

Norwegian response - What's a lanyard? LOL!

[Chux]

Must be bloody cold and lonely for that!

Very very cold given the size of lanyard holes I've seen ;)

[narsil]

It may also be because skandis have hidden tangs and so don't usually have pins and a lanyard hole is basically a hollow pin. If you're putting pins in its easy enough to put a lanyard hole in at the same time, but if not it may not be worth bothering with especially since you never have a flat surface to drill onto like you do with a fulltang knife with scales.

[Trond]

It may also be because skandis have hidden tangs and so don't usually have pins and a lanyard hole is basically a hollow pin. If you're putting pins in its easy enough to put a lanyard hole in at the same time, but if not it may not be worth bothering with especially since you never have a flat surface to drill onto like you do with a fulltang knife with scales.

Actually when you start working on a handle, it is usually flat ;)


Noggin: whats a lanyard hole

exactely, cant really see what a lanyard is good for anyway, except for cuting contests with 20 people staning in a ring about one yard from the guy cutting :yikes:

[keith_beef]

Actually when you start working on a handle, it is usually flat ;)



exactely, cant really see what a lanyard is good for anyway, except for cuting contests with 20 people staning in a ring about one yard from the guy cutting :yikes:

So those two Felleskap blades I got from you are supposed to have a 10mm pin and two 6mm pins?


KKK.

[Trond]

Of course not Keith, that blade is not a noggin and are supposed to have a lanyard hole ;)
On the felleskap blades that i am working on now, the lanyard hole is also 6 mm

[clcuckow]

Trond, are you going to put some of your fusion knives on your web site now you have done a few felleskap's and the 100% noggin bowie?

Personal I have mixed thoughts, I think they can look good but from a practical point of view I do not like the idea of a very sharp knife swinging uncontrollably from my wrist. The best place for a knife that is not in uses is in it sheath. I do see the benefit in a boat though. I would rather use the lanyard hole to 'lock' the knife in the sheath and this is what I plan to do when I get the leather from Shing for my Felleskap, I will be using a toggle and thong through the hole (that is why I used a thin walled tube and slightly enlarged the hole)

[Tvividr]

Although nothing to do with lanyardholes in scandi knives, I recall reading a couple of years ago about lanyard holes in stone age knives. I'll see if I can find the magazine later tonight, and post a drawing.

[stonehard]

Why don't scandis and puukkos have lanyard holes?

:confused:

Danzo
coz most noggins and skandys are so tight fisted they wouldnt drop a fart never mind a knife

[Tvividr]

I just did ........ :fart:

[Chux]

Nice to see the threads are reaching the normal level :p

[Tvividr]

Found the article in Bulletin of Primitive Technology, Spring Edition 1994 (Vol.1, No.7).... aehmm thats more than just a couple of years ago, I must be getting old.
David Holladay writes about seeing stoneknives in a museum, and one handle had a hole drilled in the middle with a fragment of string still attached. The knives were from the long gone Basketmaker culture, and found in Sand Dune Cave Utah (or was it Arizona -at least they were displayed at the Museum of Northern Arizona).
Copying the knives and using them for everything from butchering a couple of steers and doing all sorts of knifework with 'em practical experience showed that the hole/string was not for neck wear (knife poked him in the chest due to the hole being more to the center of gravity).
After some use he came to the conclusion that the hole / thread was for a lanyardsystem that enabled the user to grab and let go of the knife when butchering animals - by only a slight movement of the wrist the handle (due to the location of the hole) swung directly into his grip when he wanted it.
Drawings attached are by David Holladay, headinstructor for the recognized Boulder Outdoor Survival School in Utah, USA.
If anyone is interested in reading the whole article then PM me with your emailaddress and I can make some jpg files to send you.

[Trond]

Thats really interesting Gerd thanks :)

[AwP]

Hi, I've been reading here for a while, but never posted before. I always felt a little odd about posting here seeing as I'm not Brittish, but anyhoo...

I just learned this reciently, lanyards can also be used as a guard on knives that lack them. The loop should be the right length so that with your fingers going through the loop and you're holding the handle, the lanyard shouldn't allow your hand to slide down past the handle and onto the blade when thrusting with it. It's kind of like a soft D-guard.

Andrew

[hootchi]

Personaly I think i am not a fan of them as they would get in the way when i change my grip and if I was to trip whilst holding the knife and drop it, it would not fall free of my body instead i may land on it or it jab into my arm.

[Danzo]

Thanks Tvividr, I'll pm you soon.

Hi AwP and welcome! We have plenty of members who are not British; we have many Scandinavians and Finns, French, Americans, Germans, quite a few Dutch, a lot of Canadians, Australians, at least one in New Zealand and ZDP-189 who mans our outpost in South East Asia.

Then there are the guys in Russia, Brazil, Spain, South Africa and China..........

:biggthump

Danzo

[narsil]

...and some on far distant planets of their own.... ;)...not to mention at least one denizen of the outer dark

[Chux]

:bandit:

[narsil]

Thats the one.

[Chux]

BWAHAHAHA!

I think I ought to have a lie down, just done an uncharacteristic amount of work and it may have turned me a bit funny :o

[Dave Barker]

...and some on far distant planets of their own.... ;)...not to mention at least one denizen of the outer dark

And then.......... there is...................






TROND :yikes: :noggin:

[Trond]

And then.......... there is...................






TROND :yikes: :noggin:
:sleep: e huh :confused:
Dave :twak:


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