If you’re making/sharpening a spear, you actually only want to get it sharp as a butterknife. Any sharper and it has a good chance of cutting into bone and getting stuck.
And before you ask, I’m in medieval reenactment. Discussions like this pop up a lot
Spears don’t cut by slicing, they come to a point and are used to thrust/pierce. You can do a lot of damage without being “sharp” when you push with hundreds of pounds of force into a tiny area on the scale of a single square millimeter.
This is peak drama kid. Why would it have to be sharp?
Doesn’t necessarily need to be sharp. Try hard enough and you can stab someone to death with a butter knife…or a spork
that would be quite impressive.
If you’re making/sharpening a spear, you actually only want to get it sharp as a butterknife. Any sharper and it has a good chance of cutting into bone and getting stuck.
And before you ask, I’m in medieval reenactment. Discussions like this pop up a lot
Really? How does it cut through leather, or even woolen clothing then?
Spears don’t cut by slicing, they come to a point and are used to thrust/pierce. You can do a lot of damage without being “sharp” when you push with hundreds of pounds of force into a tiny area on the scale of a single square millimeter.
😉👉👉 That’s what I’ll tell anyone who asks
George Carling said he could do it with just having really big hands.
I mean…if you can stab and kill a person with your hands and nothing else? Bravo
Oh I thought we could go off script and just do with what you have around.