Mystery Knife?
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Re: Mystery Knife?
It's a Hori Hori knife (I think that's what they call it) it's used in gardening. Sometime folks use them to dig when metal detecting
Re: Mystery Knife?
Would Hori Hori be Japanese or something Asian?
Update;; I looked up Hori Hori on Google and sure enough there it was, a Japanese gardening tool. I've had this thing for years and was told that it was a tool for putting in land mines or digging them up, (yikes) (I guess it could have been) but no one ever came up with the right answer.
Thanks Lassiter, I just knew someone on here would know!!
Update;; I looked up Hori Hori on Google and sure enough there it was, a Japanese gardening tool. I've had this thing for years and was told that it was a tool for putting in land mines or digging them up, (yikes) (I guess it could have been) but no one ever came up with the right answer.
Thanks Lassiter, I just knew someone on here would know!!
Re: Mystery Knife?
Well, the Japanese did plant quite a few gardens of land mines. They had to use something, so it's possible one was used for that purpose at some point.Daisyman wrote:Would Hori Hori be Japanese or something Asian?
Update;; I looked up Hori Hori on Google and sure enough there it was, a Japanese gardening tool. I've had this thing for years and was told that it was a tool for putting in land mines or digging them up, (yikes) (I guess it could have been) but no one ever came up with the right answer.
Thanks Lassiter, I just knew someone on here would know!!
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Re: Mystery Knife?
Just as I decide my knife collection is already too big, you go and post a picture of a knife I had never even heard of
Well at least the Hori Hori may come in handy when I go metal detecting...
Well at least the Hori Hori may come in handy when I go metal detecting...
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Re: Mystery Knife?
You're in luck.....we'll just call it a Japanese gardening tool. No knife to be searched for... .....unless for the metal detecting. ( I thought it might be a survival tool for some undercover clandestine military group, thus no name or numbers.....a real piece of secret spyware. Well, poof, there went that idea!)gamekeeper wrote:Just as I decide my knife collection is already too big, you go and post a picture of a knife I had never even heard of
Well at least the Hori Hori may come in handy when I go metal detecting...
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Re: Mystery Knife?
I believe it is an Oyster knife.
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Re: Mystery Knife?
Gamekeeper, you metal detect, too? The stuff you chaps find in England is the stuff of dreams for this Oregon boy.
I use a Lesche digging tool when detecting, but frankly the hori would work great as well.
I use a Lesche digging tool when detecting, but frankly the hori would work great as well.
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I don't find much except all my spent .22 brass I used on squirrels but I would love to find something from the Bronze Age.Bill in Oregon wrote:Gamekeeper, you metal detect, too? The stuff you chaps find in England is the stuff of dreams for this Oregon boy.
I use a Lesche digging tool when detecting, but frankly the hori would work great as well.
The Hori Hori looks cool and I can also use it for setting mole traps...
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Re: Mystery Knife?
Definitely a Hori Hori knife used by Japanese gardeners as well as for foraging wild vegetables in the mountains. I usually carry mine when in the forest usually to dig up wild bamboo shoots.
I french-whipped the handle using tarred marline twine for better grip in wet conditions.
Slightly cupped blade
Harvesting bamboo shoots with my Hori-Hori knife
Harvested bamboo shoots
Spicy "Menma" made from my bamboo shoots
I french-whipped the handle using tarred marline twine for better grip in wet conditions.
Slightly cupped blade
Harvesting bamboo shoots with my Hori-Hori knife
Harvested bamboo shoots
Spicy "Menma" made from my bamboo shoots
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Re: Mystery Knife?
that's a very coool knife... :)
Re: Mystery Knife?
Those are excellent, innocent looking garden tools that would make a dandy general use knife or improvised weapon.
People were smarter before the Internet, or imbeciles were harder to notice.
Re: Mystery Knife?
Those bamboo shoots look good. I've never had them, didn't know they were edible. Anything comparable in taste?Ji in Hawaii wrote:Definitely a Hori Hori knife used by Japanese gardeners as well as for foraging wild vegetables in the mountains. I usually carry mine when in the forest usually to dig up wild bamboo shoots.
I french-whipped the handle using tarred marline twine for better grip in wet conditions.
Slightly cupped blade
Harvesting bamboo shoots with my Hori-Hori knife
Harvested bamboo shoots
Spicy "Menma" made from my bamboo shoots