Mystery Knife?

[Daisyman]

I've got a knife? that I would like to identify. I've been told a few things they THOUGHT it might be, but I wanted you fellers opinion about it. What say you? The OAL is 11.375", blade is 6.375", width of blade is 1.75", and about .125" thick. No numbers or name.
Irv

[Lassiter]

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

[Daisyman]

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!!

[jeepnik]

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!!

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.

[gamekeeper]

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...

[Daisyman]

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...

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!)

[Chuck 100 yd]

I believe it is an Oyster knife.

[Bill in Oregon]

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.

[gamekeeper]

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 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.
The Hori Hori looks cool and I can also use it for setting mole traps...

[Ji in Hawaii]

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

[1894c]

that's a very coool knife... :)

[Sarge]

Those are excellent, innocent looking garden tools that would make a dandy general use knife or improvised weapon.

[Daisyman]

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

Those bamboo shoots look good. I've never had them, didn't know they were edible. Anything comparable in taste?