Here is a photo of a Japanese bayonet where the fuller is almost full length of the blade itself.
Re: Blood grooves on Bayonets
Here is a photo of a Japanese bayonet where the fuller is almost full length of the blade itself.
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Re: Blood grooves on Bayonets
Then there is this Bad Boy! The Swiss 1914 Pioneer Bayonet. OAL is 24" with a blade that is 19". I have one that is in the earlier leather scabbard,but my cell phone pic could not do it justice! So I got a pic off a yahoo search.
If you notice one side of the blade has a fuller and the other side is flat. I have to say out of all my bayonets and sawtooth's, I like this one the best!
Semper Fi
Phil
Nice sawback!
Blood grooves in my historical travels on blades are for a structure purpose. Stiffening of blade and lightening of the blade. Ditto and back up to what many of you boys have stated. Cheers!
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Hallo,
i can olny speak for the german part.
The Name "Blutrinnen" or "blood groves" nerver realy exist...
The correct name for german bayontes is "Hohlkehle" or "Hohlbahn"... (hollow?? fuller??).
It was made because the blade is more stable und lighter, like corrugated metal.
Regards
Being in agreement with the above and others about the purpose of "fullers" or grooves in blades to structurally stiffen blades they go back centuries. With for example, sword blades from circa the Napoleonic Wars/earlier made in both the flat or grooved manner. And during the Napoleonic Wars reports of stabbing wounds from the French Cuirassier swords to the body statistically more fatal than slashing wounds from British swords because of the greater likelihood of infections. Best Regards, Fred
Hi. Just stumbled on the topic. What great read. I too feel the design was to strengthen the bade while reducing weight/material with perhaps the added bonus of easier withdrawal from bodies while allowing the blood to flow while in the body so the enemy will bleed out fater. Pictured a 1939 WKC.
Hi, Phil !by AZPhil
If you notice one side of the blade has a fuller and the other side is flat.
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The "fuller", (Hohlbahn / Hohlkehle), IMO, was "invented", to give the blade stability, (strenghten the structure of the blade).
For example, you can find a fuller at the one side, and, a "flat" surface on the opposite side of the blade, on an yugoslav, (Kingdom of Yugoslavia), M24 Artillery sidearm.
Such workmanship you can find on the engine bonnet, or, on submachine gun´s !
In the german language the technical term´s "sicken"
Cheers,
R.
another one:
LOL...WOW >_<... This one created some stir and discussion.
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