Show me your Zulus

Don't have a new picture but i have this one i picked up from Drew
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Chief said:
From a communication with Charlie C. waynorth waynorth hope he doesn't mind me sharing.

"I’ve posted a lot of Schrades on BF, John, and I saw a blade that Tony made which reminded me of a Schrade I owned, so I sent him some pictures, or referred him to “Elusive Schrades” – I forget which.

He called his blade a modified Wharncliffe I think, and I told him he was making a Schrade “Zulu Spear”!!

That is how Schrade described it in their old catalog! I asked him to make me one with some interesting Ivory, a long pull and a cut swedge, and Voila’!!

He loved the name, and it sold him a lot of knives!! Privately and with Case!! This knife started the modern “Zulu” movement!! Case changed it to “Tribal” eventually, but everyone knows it’s a Zulu!! Lots of custom makers have jumped on the train, but Tony will always be known as the Zulu man in my book!!"

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Am lucky to own this pair.

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That's how it happened John. Thanks for recalling it! Tony was making it before he called it a Zulu!! I'm sure Schrade Cut Co coined it.
 
Lots of nice high end knives in this thread. I was thinking about this thread as I was putting away my Opinel no.8 Garden knife after it had been washed tonight. Same great shape and a killer grind for a twenty. And then I stabbed myself in the belly a little bit and started thinking about what I was doing again.
 
robbobus said:
Lots of nice high end knives in this thread. I was thinking about this thread as I was putting away my Opinel no.8 Garden knife after it had been washed tonight. Same great shape and a killer grind for a twenty. And then I stabbed myself in the belly a little bit and started thinking about what I was doing again.
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Price has nothing to do with a well made tool. It's a matter of design and execution.
 
Ratbert said:
You have some beauties, Alan! The covers on your Robertson look fantastic!
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Thank you. They are some of the nicest stag I've seen. Tim made it alongside the MOP that's on the exchange right now. That has to be one of the most stunning covers around.
 
I'm still not very clear on the defining features of a Zulu spear blade :confused:, but the knives posted here certainly have blade shapes that are VERY appealing to me! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup: The knife blades shown here don't actually look very similar to the spear points used on historic Zulu stabbing or throwing spears, at least not to my untrained eye; European "palmate" blades seem closer to the pictures of actual Zulu weapons I can find. But Alan is without a doubt the Shaka of Zulu blades on The Porch!! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:

Here's a Case Tribal Lock with Zulu blade. I have other examples of blades I wonder about, and am willing to post them if anyone wants to give me a ruling on their "Zuluness".
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- GT
 
Thanks for the compliment Gary but Shaka stands with few others. As far as the zulu blade it sounds like the opinion of most is that it's a modified wharncliff in that it is upswept at the point giving it a pointy spear.
 
joeradza said:
Thanks for the compliment Gary but Shaka stands with few others. As far as the zulu blade it sounds like the opinion of most is that it's a modified wharncliff in that it is upswept at the point giving it a pointy spear.
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Thanks for the reply, Alan, and especially saying one more time something that I've seen repeatedly in this thread already. But this time the "modified wharncliffe ... upswept at the point" finally clicked for me! :rolleyes::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Based on my "new" and as yet untested understanding, R robbobus is correct in describing the Opinel Garden Knife as having a Zulu blade. Right?? Or is the upsweep at the tip too gradual?
robbobus said:
Lots of nice high end knives in this thread. I was thinking about this thread as I was putting away my Opinel no.8 Garden knife after it had been washed tonight. Same great shape and a killer grind for a twenty. And then I stabbed myself in the belly a little bit and started thinking about what I was doing again.
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ETA: Oops, R robbobus already posted a photo while I was typing! :cool::thumbsup:

- GT
 
I'm not sure Gary but to my eye that looks like an even pointed spear but that could be perspective.
 
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