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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: StevenT on January 22, 2015, 12:28:53 pm

Title: Coner Tang question
Post by: StevenT on January 22, 2015, 12:28:53 pm

I am starting this as a new topic because I did not want to hijack Sasquatch's corner tang post. Over time, I have seen several corner tang posted. What I am wondering is how a corner tang is hafted or used?  I am thinking it is used as a blade (knife), but I can't picture it in my head. What type of handle is used? Does anyone have pics of a completed corner tang or how it is used? Thanks.

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: Tower on January 22, 2015, 12:39:27 pm

I think the tang was created to tie a lanyard to your wrist. The tang would be too weak to be hafted & used . I've used a cornertang with a  lanyard to skin a deer. I found that I could use both hands & if I needed the knife was always readily available .   Just my opinion.

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: Sasquatch on January 22, 2015, 01:12:36 pm

Tower's opinion make perfect sense to me also.   

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: StevenT on January 22, 2015, 01:55:16 pm

Thanks. That makes sense. Especially with the size of Sasquatch's corner tang. That is one awesome looking blade and I could see it being used as is.

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: Stringman on January 22, 2015, 02:06:03 pm

One I made several years ago.
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/6D491FB0-17FD-476E-877F-F0330B8A5BAD-193-000000124D71C0D4_zpsbc23112a.jpg) (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/cotton7611/media/6D491FB0-17FD-476E-877F-F0330B8A5BAD-193-000000124D71C0D4_zpsbc23112a.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: Chippintuff on January 22, 2015, 02:44:27 pm

Scott, that is some fine knapping, and the stone is gorgeous.

WA

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: Stringman on January 22, 2015, 02:55:01 pm

I believe I got that piece from Tower, but it's been a few years. Took it to Colorado on an elk hunt and left it with our horse wranglers as a gift.

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: Outbackbob48 on January 22, 2015, 04:48:09 pm

Did ya ever lay your knife down while butchering or gutting and now ya can't find it in the leaves, NA were smart enough to not loose there's in the leaves and could work with both hands  ;D Made this one a long time ago, even has a Dogbane string. Bob

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: Zuma on January 22, 2015, 11:19:36 pm

I think the crew nailed it on the corner tang.  Although any notched or expanding stem knife will work also.
Zuma

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: StevenT on January 23, 2015, 09:51:35 am

Zuma, I agree. My question was well answered. Sometimes pictures are worth the thousand words. Thanks to all.

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: mullet on January 23, 2015, 03:45:52 pm

Agree, I made one for Pappy a few years ago with a Spanish Bayonet fiber string.

Title: Re: Coner Tang question
Post by: JackCrafty on January 25, 2015, 09:49:16 pm

They were sometimes offered as burial gifts.  And I don't think they were worn around the neck.  Probably on the wrist (as already stated) or on a belt, as the picture below tends to show.

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/images/Silo-burial-2-90.html