Tanazacq (Ardennlame)

deovolens · Dec 20, 2006

Here's a nice example of a custom made throwing knife with 4 different impact points. Guaranteed damage on impact.
There's a knife-tip, a axe-like blade, a splitter and a spear-point.
Production never started due to the extremely high costs and difficulty to manufacture.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r162/deovolens/tanazacq001.jpg
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r162/deovolens/tanazacq002.jpg
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r162/deovolens/tanazacq003.jpg

JurT · Dec 20, 2006

Deovolens, awesome pics:thumbup:

gr. Teun

TALEL · Dec 21, 2006

deovolens said:
Production never started due to the extremely high costs and difficulty to manufacture

It's nice to see that badass back:thumbup: It was in the mid-eighties, and this one was nicknamed in french : "la grenade blanche" (aka. the white grenade). It was handmade by Jean TANAZACQ who's a great french knifemaker (Jean TANAZACQ Artisan coutelier Place de la MAIRIE F-08260 MAUBERT-FONTAINE). It was intended as a survival tool with the possibility to use it as a throwing knife. For what I know right now, it's still possible to order one, you just have to get in touch with Jean, that's why I gave you his address (don't know if he has a website or a mail-address...).

deovolens · Dec 21, 2006

his website is www.jean-tanazacq.com but he is quite ill now.His sun is helping him but you have to wait for a very long time to get one knife.

TALEL · Dec 23, 2006

deovolens, thanks a lot for that info.

SIRGALANT · Dec 25, 2006

interesting concept looks hard to throw though?

deovolens · Dec 25, 2006

Not so difficult at all but you can not calculate which of the four things will hit the target but in in a tree the impact is more then one inch deep.

Unsub · Dec 26, 2006

It looks like the top of a halberd.

TALEL · Jan 6, 2007

Unsub said:
It looks like the top of a halberd.

...Or an old throwing knife from Africa, with that characteristic design to get it stuck, no matter how it reaches the aimed target.