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21st February 2024, 05:38 PM | #1 |
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Hello Detlef, I very much like your "Hippe" and understand the way a tool can have memories attached.
And maybe enjoy using it when you have it sharpened. 👍 |
24th February 2024, 06:00 PM | #2 |
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Hi Carl,
The last one you show is a combination tool, with an axe head and a machete blade. I saw a similar example a while back on an auction site. I think it was African in origin. According to the auction site, the machete blade was used to cut small saplings and the axe head to cut larger wood. |
25th February 2024, 05:15 AM | #3 | |
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The puzzling thing about it is this, the axe is sharp but the long part isn't a machete blade but more like a chisel with only the very end sharpened, both of the sides taper to the tip & are blunt. |
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28th February 2024, 10:38 PM | #4 |
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Have not found that listing but still looking. The sharpened blunt end might suggest a few uses--gouging or digging, for example.
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29th February 2024, 05:00 AM | #5 | |
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The best guess so far has been an asparagus cutter, they tend to be long & only sharpened at the end but don't have a hatchet/ cleaver, it was suggested this might have been to cut the ends off bundled bunches. But that's purely a guess with no other example. |
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15th April 2024, 03:05 PM | #6 |
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Local implement, it comes in various size. From to harvest pumpkin to pruning. In Sundanese it is called as gaet (with e like in "set"), surprisingly in Kanekes (or in modern day called as Baduy) it is the kujang. In some parts of Java, such is in my hometown (Yogyakarta) friends called it kudi.
It is not an old wesi aji but it has age. Handle made of albino buffalo, at the moment the handle has higher price than to the blade. |
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