>>178871>As to everyone else, many of you appear to be confusing "hidden tang" with rat tail tang.Oh for Pete's sake. A hidden tang is any tang you can't see and whose method of attachment you can't see when the knife is assembled. It may be full or partial, stick, rat-tail, tapered, skeletonized, encapsulated, or a push-tang. The bottom knife in
>>178058 is both a rat tail tang and a hidden tang. It is also a full tang knife.
Stick tang and rat-tail tang are interchangeable terms and have zero to do with whether there is a weld in the tang. Traditional puukko and leuku knives, the gladius hispaniola, smallswords, and many others had them.
>For beautiful and durable knives, the hidden tang was used.Here's a 1600-1700 year old gladius with a rat tail tang. It's survived since the third or fourth century, I'd say it was plenty durable. I'd also dare say there were quite a few made.
>>178871>hidden tang, full tang, and full width partial tang are talking about different thingsTangs are hidden or not, independent of whether they are full or not, independent of whether they are full-width (or, for hidden, almost full-width), stick or rat-tail, encapsulated, or tapered.
