Your newest addition:traditionals of course!

Londinium Armoury said:
Normally the blade is straight but some of the southern tribes use this type of blade.
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I have an Afar sword/dagger, and as I recall, the northern Somali Issa clan had one one that was very similar, but less wide across the blade. Those, and Yemeni daggers are the only types I remember seeing people carry further north in the Horn of Africa, where I spent a couple of years (30 years ago now - good grief!). So my guess of “somewhere further down the coast” was pretty close.

The woven mat huts were still extremely common when I was there, and daggers such as these were carried by pretty much every nomad or pastoral type person. Mine (cheap market-stall version) measures about 23 inches in the sheath.
 
Just Tom. said:
I have an Afar sword/dagger, and as I recall, the northern Somali Issa clan had one one that was very similar, but less wide across the blade. Those, and Yemeni daggers are the only types I remember seeing people carry further north in the Horn of Africa, where I spent a couple of years (30 years ago now - good grief!). So my guess of “somewhere further down the coast” was pretty close.

The woven mat huts were still extremely common when I was there, and daggers such as these were carried by pretty much every nomad or pastoral type person. Mine (cheap market-stall version) measures about 23 inches in the sheath.
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We guessed in the right region, I've never been to Africa myself, one of my great grand fathers has middle eastern ancestry though, and my son is half African, his mothers family were originally from the Congo.
 
Still trying to get caught up on my new acquisitions so I’m combining these four. Bottom three are carbon, all have solid blades, centering runs from close to rubbing to near perfect. Action is good on all of them. A few gaps on all of them. The Micarta on the blue one is very slick and plastic feeling, on the black one, the Micarta has a very nice texture and even had a few threads sticking out around the shield when it arrived. All in all, solid knives and fun to collect. 👍DE579AAC-E6A8-4534-978B-4D1634C965F9.jpeg
 
If that one ^^ (the Warhorse) isn't a traditional, then this one surely is. They're both very nice knives. Case in the old standby CV and the Warhorse in M390. The Warhorse surely has traditional lines but the materials are just something else strictly from the modern era. And damnation does that Lionsteel feel so ultra solid. Have never seen a two blade folder with nail nicks on both sides of both blades before. But I have now. The blade stop pins are a nice added touch too.

I dearly love my amber bone Case knives - but when it came to the Lionsteel - the ebony just seemed to speak to me.

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I've got this Giant Mouse GMF1-F on the way from the Exchange. The image is the sellers.
I've been looking at these for awhile now and I got my chance, so I took it.
I like both Anso and Voxnaes work, and the prospect of a slim, small M390 pocket fixed blade, that seems to share the basic grip, size and blade shape to my Boker Nessmi intrigues me.
One other thing, I love the looks of the sheath! I might have bought it just for that!
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See what I mean? I see Jesper all over this knife. I've got to say that the grip on the Nessmi is just about perfect, in my estimation.
I'll report back when I get the chance to handle it.
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