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Post by ThunderMoon on May 23, 2011 23:39:24 GMT -5
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Post by redthunder on May 24, 2011 1:48:12 GMT -5
Could be patch knife, looks so and looks good too. This is some of my Great Lakes patch knife you can compare with.
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Post by ThunderMoon on May 24, 2011 10:49:50 GMT -5
:)Those look real from trhe day~
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Post by phoenix1967 on May 24, 2011 11:31:06 GMT -5
Beaudro may correct me, but I believe any small knife that was used to cut patches was a patch knife. Most of them I have made were similar to the last one (on the right) of Red thunders collection. I did one a coupla years back with a bullet starter...
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Post by ThunderMoon on May 24, 2011 11:51:07 GMT -5
greta idea there Phoenix
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Post by beaudro on May 24, 2011 15:01:18 GMT -5
I had this written out in about 4 pages, but decided just to come out and say it. There are many written accounts of how a rifle or gun was loaded, but the use of a knife to cut a patch at the end of the barrel is not one of them. The word "patch knife" does not show up in journals or inventories. The debate will probably never die, just like many other items.
It is possible someone in history desired to load this way, but it only adds another step in the process of loading when commonly people were trying to find an easier and faster way to load. In many places if they could avoid wasting a piece of cloth for shooting it was best, cloth patches were used, but more common to precut them and grease them, leaving them inside a hunting pouch. Today it's ok to waste a strip of cloth just to shoot targets.
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Post by ThunderMoon on May 24, 2011 17:11:40 GMT -5
Is it true silk is better and gets more distance like Daniel Day Lewis says in the Last of the Mohicans?Yea i always make my from pillow ticking..
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Post by beaudro on May 24, 2011 17:49:22 GMT -5
on silk patching.. Everything has been tried, distance is another obsession. Pillow ticking is another strange creature, it isn't made the same today. In the past it was made of linen and a different style of stripe was woven in , most modern ticking is a poor replica made of cotton and a printed pattern.
Ticking was made for bedding and pillows, to keep feathers from sticking through the fabric it was woven real close and tight, a little rare in the early days because of the price , the weave itself is what made ticking, not the pattern of stripes.
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Post by phoenix1967 on May 24, 2011 20:19:29 GMT -5
By all accounts I've read, Patch knives were like the toolbox razor knife... Not used for cutting the patches at the end of the barrel, like Beaudro said, but rather at camp, while sitting at the fire, preparing for the next days travails. Most that I have heard about were more like straight razors, often square on the end without a point (this from the civil war buffs)
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Post by ThunderMoon on May 25, 2011 10:39:38 GMT -5
AHH HA,guess i better find some antique ticking~
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