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22 5 cm open 4 72 8 86 inches 5 huge pruning knife saca tripas from guanajuato mexico and last but not least a big fuck off pruning knife which locks securely with a ratchet and unlocks with a pull ring this is basically a folding sickle you reap stuff with it and can cut thick branches the very curved carbon blade it s not over sharpened that s its original shape is stamped with a j and the handle is made of horn with an iron backspring the name is extravagantly bloodthirsty it means disemboweller saca tripas pulls out intestines and is of course a misnomer this isn t a weapon it s a farming tool could it be used as a weapon well of course but so can kitchen knives i m not entirely sure if it s really called that way or only as a jest or for the express purpose of selling one of them to bloodthirsty types i e to morons pet peeve mislabeling work knives as military or fighting or tactical when they re clearly for utility and often for some specific farming job i even saw an ad for a knife like this describing it as a torture implement for fuck s sake people it s for cutting plants so anyway these knives can be found all over mexico and this one hails from the city of guanajuato or at least it was bought there at some point it s 16 cm closed and 28 5 cm open 6 3 11 22 inches the lot of them despite the fact that all these are work knives except the corsican but only technically it emulates a specific older work knife and it s still 100 functional a clear effort has been made to make them pretty and i love this even the trinxet which has a monochrome handle and no frills at all is elegant in its simplicity and they all have something going on carvings decorations handles shaped to please the eye materials chosen for their nice colour aesthetically speaking i think knives went to shit when plastic was adopted practically speaking i admit plastic is a lot more resistant to the elements a handle of horn or bone must be kept dry or it shrivels wood must be kept from dryness or it shrinks bugs and mites eat it it s a mess not one blade here is stainless steel and it shows only the handle of the grafting knife the smallest one has scales riveted on a metal frame not coincidentally it s the most industrial production it came out of a thiers factory thiers is a major cutlery centre like sheffield and solingen the rest were hand made in a workshop or at most a cottage industry a bunch of people in a village construct parts and someone assembles them and their handles are solid blocks of material horn or wood with a slit in the middle to fit the folded blade that s the simpler older construction folding knives are cool original post posted in rogues in real life and tagged 57 bardin garanti a bardin dozolmé corsica couteau de berger folding billhook folding knives france grafting knife greffoir guanajuato hermanos campins hnos campins consell italy knives mallorca mexico pruning knife roncola saca tripas shepherd knife spain thiers trinxet on january 23 2024 by rogue leave a comment cold iron in folklore fiction and rpgs gold is for the mistress silver for the maid copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade good said the baron sitting in his hall but iron cold iron is master of them all rudyard kipling cold iron folklore drudenmesser or witch knife an apotropaic folding knife from germany the notion that iron or steel can ward against evil spirits witches fairies etc is very widespread in folklore you hang a horseshoe over your threshold to deny entry to evil spirits you carry an iron tool with you to make sure devils won t assault you you place a small knife under the baby s crib to ward it from witches and so on iron is apotropaic in many many cultures in english we often come across passages that refer to apotropaic cold iron or cold steel all uncouth unknown wights are terrifyed by nothing earthly so much as by cold iron says robert kirk in 1691 which i believe is the earliest example evil spirits cannot bear the touch of cold steel iron or preferably steel in any form is a protection says john gregorson campbell in 1901 words so what is cold iron in this context it s just iron the cold part is poetic especially but not only if we re talking about either blades or swords weapons the force of arms or manacles and the like it just sounds more ominous there are cold yron chaines in the fairie queene 1596 and a 1638 book of travels tells us that a georgian general in the caucasus vowed to make the turk to eat cold iron green s dictionary of slang defines cold iron as a sword and dates the term to 1698 from 1725 it appears in cant dictionaries could this sense be thieves cant originally why not plenty of words and expressions started as underworld slang and then entered the mainstream and from 1750 its use becomes much more common ngram viewer diagram for 1600 2019 in other contexts cold iron is surprise iron that s not hot so let s talk a bit about metallurgy metals in nature we can find only one kind of iron that s pure enough to work with meteoritic iron it has to literally fall from the sky barring that very rare occurrence people have to mine the earth for iron ore which is not workable as is to separate the iron from the ore we have to smelt it and for that we need heat in the form of hot charcoals throwing the ore on the coals won t do much of anything it s not hot enough but if we enclose the coals in a little tower built of clay leaving holes for air flow the temperature rises enough to smelt the ore that s called a bloomery clay bloomery medieval bloomery beating the bloom to get rid of the slag what comes out of the bloomery is a bloom a porous malleable mass of iron that we need and slag byproducts that we don t need by hammering the hot bloom over and over we can get rid of the slag and at the same time turn the porous mass to something solid and once the slag is off by the same process we can give it a desired shape in the forge reheating it as needed this is called working the iron hence wrought iron objects i e forged a blacksmith in his forge with bellows fire and anvil english woodcut 1603 this is the lowest tech version possibly going back to 2000 bce in nigeria if we add bellows the improved air flow will raise the temperature so smelting happens faster and more efficiently in the bloomery and so does heating the iron in the forge making it easier to work with and that s the standard process from the iron age all through the middle ages and beyond although in china they may have skipped this stage and gone straight to the next one if we make the bloomery bigger and bigger with stronger and stronger bellows we end up with a blast furnace a construction so efficient that the temperature outright melts the iron and it s liquified enough to be poured into a mould and acquire the desired shape when it cools off this is cast iron a blast furnace so in all of this what s cold iron well it s iron that went though the heat and cooled off no heat no iron all you got is ore if it came out of a bloomery or if it wasn t cast it s by definition worked hammered beaten wrought and that happened while it was still hot is there such a thing as cold wrought iron no in fact working cold iron was a simile for something foolish or pointless a smith who beats cold iron instead of putting it in the fire shows folly says a 1694 book on religion so you too should choose your best tools piety and good decorum to educate your children and servants instead of beating them when don quixote 1605 declares he ll go knight erranting again sancho panza tries to dissuade him but it s like preaching in the desert and hammering on cold iron a direct translation of martillar en hierro frío minor work can be done on cold iron a 1710 dictionary of technical terms tells us that a rivetting hammer is chiefly used for rivetting or setting straight cold iron or for crooking of small work but tis seldom used at the forge fully fashioning an object out of cold iron is not a real process though a 1659 history of the world would claim that in arabia it s so hot that smiths work nails and horseshoes out of cold iron softened only by the vigorous heat of the sun and the hard hammering of hands on the anvil i declare myself unqualified to judge the veracity of this statement let s just say i have doubts and there is of course such a thing as cold wrought iron as in wrought iron after it s cooled off either way in the context of pre 20th century english texts which refer to apotropaic cold iron it s definitely not cold wrought or meteoritic or a special alloy of any kind it s just iron fiction the old superstition kept coming up in fantasy fiction in 1910 rudyard kipling wrote the very influential short story cold iron in the collection rewards and fairies where he explains invents the details of the fairies aversion to iron they can t bewitch a child wearing boots because the boots have nails in the soles they can t pass under a doorway guarded by a horseshoe but they can slip through the backdoor that people neglected to guard mortals live on the near side of cold iron because there s iron in every house while fairies live on the far side of cold iron and want nothing to do with it and changelings brought up by fairies will go back to the world of mortals as soon they touch cold iron for the first time in poul anderson s the broken sword 1954 we read let me tell you boy that you humans weak and short lived and unwitting are nonetheless more strong than elves and trolls aye than giants and gods and that you can touch cold iron is only one reason in peter s beagle s the last unicorn 1968 the unicorn is imprisoned in an iron cage she turned and turned in her prison her body shrinking from the touch of the iron bars all around her no creature of man s night loves cold iron and while the unicorn could endure its presence the murderous smell of it seemed to turn her bones to sand and her blood to rain poul anderson would come back to that idea in operation chaos 1971 where the worldbuilding s premise is that magic and magical creatures have been reintroduced into the modern world because a scientist discovered he could degauss the effects of cold iron and release the goetic forces and that until then they had been steadily declining ever since the iron age came along there are a million examples i m just focusing on those that would have had a more direct influence on roleplaying games however i should note that all these say cold iron but mean iron yes the fey call it cold but they are a poetic bunch you can t expect robin goodfellow s words to be pedestrian now can you rpgs and from there fantasy roleplaying systems got the idea that cold iron is a special material that fey are vulnerable to the term had been floating around since the early d d days but inconsistently scattered in random sourcebooks and not necessarily meaning anything else than iron in 1st edition s monster manual 1977 it s ghasts and quasits who are vulnerable to it not any fey creature devils and or fiends might dislike iron powdered cold iron is a component in magic circle against evil and cold wrought iron makes a couple of appearances for example in ad d it can strike fool s gold and turn it back to its natural state revealing the illusion then changeling the dreaming came along and made it a big deal a fundamental rule and an anathema to all fae cold iron is the ultimate sign of banality to changelings its presence makes changelings ill at ease and cold iron weapons cause horrible smoking wounds that rob changelings of glamour and threaten their very existence the best way to think about cold iron is not as a thing but as a process a very low tech process it must be produced from iron ore over a charcoal fire the resulting lump of black gray material can then be forged hammered into useful shapes changeling the dreaming 2nd edition 1997 so now that we know how iron works does that description make sense well if we assume that the iron ore is unceremoniously dumped on coals it does not you can t smelt iron like that if we assume that a bloomery is involved even though it s not mentioned then yes this is broadly speaking how iron s been made since the iron age and until blast furnaces came into the picture but the world of darkness isn t a pseudo medieval setting it s modern urban fantasy so the implication here is that cold iron is iron made the old way you can t buy it in the store someone has to replicate ye olde process and do the whole thing by hand now this is not how the term cold iron has been used in real life or fiction thus far but hey fantasy games are allowed to invent things regardless 3 5 borrowed the idea and for the first time d d made this a core rule now most fey creatures had damage reduction and took less damage from weapons and natural attacks unless the weapon was made of cold iron this iron mined deep underground known for its effectiveness against fey creatures is forged at a lower temperature to preserve its delicate properties player s handbook 3 5 edition 2003 pathfinder kept the rule though 5e did not and unlike changeling this definition left it somewhat ambiguous if we re talking about a material with special composition i e not iron or made with a special process i e iron but the community was divided threads were locked over this so until someone points me to new evidence i ll assume that the invention of cold iron as a special material distinct from plain iron should be attributed to ttrpgs original post posted in rogues in d d rogues in fiction and tagged 3 5 ad d changeling the dreaming cold iron d d fey folklore iron language operation chaos pathfinder peter s beagle poul anderson rudyard kipling superstitions the broken sword the last unicorn thieves cant world of darkness on january 20 2024 by rogue leave a comment post navigation older posts licence blog about contact contents resources bibliography categories rogues in d d rogues in fiction rogues 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