[Sca-cooks] Damascus Question

[david friedman]

Magik Badger made a kard for us once, but it's 
pretty big for an eating knife. I believe that 
was the first one he made; I don't know if he has 
done others since.

>This is the fellow who makes the documented, 9th 
>century "spork" that I spoke of some time back.

Based on the one in the British Museum? I have pictures.

>Our eating utensils, which included his original 
>version, disappeared some time back (has since 
>resurfaced!), so we visited him at Pennsic and 
>found that he has made his versions larger and 
>of stainless, which makes them easier to care 
>for...material not period, but the design is!
>
>Kiri
>
>Olwen the Odd wrote:
>
>>>As penance for my earlier red herring, here's a link to information on
>>>pre-1700 kards that may be somewhat more accurate. At least it gives some
>>>good pointers for further research:
>>>
>>>http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?s=ab612058a6a3f30a72849eba45dd5fce&threadid=20417&highlight=kard
>>>
>>>-Lorenz
>>
>>
>>My knife maker, Magik Badger, said he has done 
>>the kurd knife before and it is quite a nice 
>>knife. I may ask him to let me inspect one next 
>>production of it he does. In the meanwhile, he 
>>is soon to do another production of a smaller 
>>version of a knife design I brought to him and 
>>I definately want one of those!
>>Olwen
>>
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