Incredible. According to Adam over at Winggard Wearables, pipe hawks were relatively often used as self defense weapons. An everyday carry you’d of course try to avoid using. Basically it’s better than nothing so if ur getting jumped you have ur pipe on you, and it worked. But mostly I agree, it wouldn’t be brought to battlefields on purpose for sure. Bc why haha
Figured you'd like that one! I never knew the heads were sometimes pewter. Makes sense for a purely ceremonial one... why bother working with harder metal that's never going to cut anything?
That axe with two heart indents is actually a Japanese Ono axe. You can tell from the distinctive hammer side. Also it's not really a heart, it's a boar's snout, it's upside down. It's possible, I've seen a Plains Indian posing with his katana. Not sure where he got that though
@@yokaiou5848 Woah! I just saw that it was a, "mountaineering" axe. Wish I'd noticed the country of origin. I will definitely point that out in the follow up video about the heart shape. p.s. I've also seen that picture of the Native American with the katana.
It is, someone else pointed that out. I found it when looking for useful images and it just said mountaineering axe. I'm going to incorporate into my video on the heart shape proper, pretty interesting that the Japanese and Native Americans both had that. I know of the European swords that do so needed to be educated about this part (had no idea).
Incredible. According to Adam over at Winggard Wearables, pipe hawks were relatively often used as self defense weapons. An everyday carry you’d of course try to avoid using. Basically it’s better than nothing so if ur getting jumped you have ur pipe on you, and it worked. But mostly I agree, it wouldn’t be brought to battlefields on purpose for sure. Bc why haha
That's a good one. Pewter, eh? Interesting...
Figured you'd like that one! I never knew the heads were sometimes pewter. Makes sense for a purely ceremonial one... why bother working with harder metal that's never going to cut anything?
Fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it
That axe with two heart indents is actually a Japanese Ono axe. You can tell from the distinctive hammer side. Also it's not really a heart, it's a boar's snout, it's upside down.
It's possible, I've seen a Plains Indian posing with his katana. Not sure where he got that though
@@yokaiou5848 Woah! I just saw that it was a, "mountaineering" axe. Wish I'd noticed the country of origin. I will definitely point that out in the follow up video about the heart shape. p.s. I've also seen that picture of the Native American with the katana.
Axe may be Japanese
It is, someone else pointed that out. I found it when looking for useful images and it just said mountaineering axe. I'm going to incorporate into my video on the heart shape proper, pretty interesting that the Japanese and Native Americans both had that. I know of the European swords that do so needed to be educated about this part (had no idea).
@@ObjectHistory Also on Scottish Basket Hilts