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Days of Knights III - 2014
Ian:
--- Quote from: Squire Douglas on 2014-09-21, 00:10:29 ---Then doesn’t it also have to be sealed or something?
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There are plenty of food safe wood finishes. There are food grade mineral oils, tung oils, linseed oils etc. You just have to make sure you're purchasing food grade stuff. Beeswax mixed with oils will make it more water repellent. Modern nice edge grain cutting boards are usually just finished with a food grade mineral oil. They just require oil from time to time.
Sir Douglas:
Okay, put some orders in for cutlery. Now concerning the pricker. I know it's considered a dubious reenactorism, but I’m curious as to why. Is there no evidence to its existence, or just no evidence that it was ever used as an eating utensil?
Ian:
--- Quote from: Squire Douglas on 2014-09-22, 03:33:55 ---or just no evidence that it was ever used as an eating utensil
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This. Reenactors made the logical leap because they're so used to eating with a fork that they have a hard time not using something similar, but there's no evidence for it. Also, there are exceedingly few scabbards for knives that have that reenactor 'double scabbard' for a knife and pricker. The overwhelming majority of scabbards just house a knife.
Frater deTyr:
--- Quote from: Ian on 2014-09-22, 13:23:58 ---
--- Quote from: Squire Douglas on 2014-09-22, 03:33:55 ---or just no evidence that it was ever used as an eating utensil
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This. Reenactors made the logical leap because they're so used to eating with a fork that they have a hard time not using something similar, but there's no evidence for it. Also, there are exceedingly few scabbards for knives that have that reenactor 'double scabbard' for a knife and pricker. The overwhelming majority of scabbards just house a knife.
All this time, I thought it was just a sharpening steel...
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Ian:
It may very well be a sharpening steel. It's more than likely not a 'fork-wannabe' :)
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