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Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Really? How does it cut through leather, or even woolen clothing then?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    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.

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