>>140815This is what I meant when I typed
>>140759. You're the kind of idiot who really pisses me off. Learn knife terminology. Here, let me help you:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_%28weaponry%29A full tang knife simply has a tang that extends through the part of the handle where the person using the knife would hold it. That's all full tang means. Half tang means going halfway out. Three quarters tang means going 3/4 the length of the handle. 146/327 tang means going 146/327 the length of the handle. Simple, no?
Whether a tang is a stick tang (synonymous with rat tail tang), hidden tang, extended tang, push tang, encapsulated tang, tapered tang, or a full width tang like your picture has nothing to do with whether it's a full tang or not.
Most of the general use knives throughout history have been full tang stick tang knives. Think: Ka-Bar, puukko, leuku, seax, swords other than the katana which traditionally a partial tang, anything with stacked leather handles, the infamous gladius hispanola, most daggers, smallswords, rapiers, cutlasses, true to the original Bowie knives, et cetera.
The full-width slab type tang is a relatively new way to make knives in quantity because people understood you don't need that extra metal for the knife to perform properly and steel was hard to come by. Now people buy what you had in your pic, think it's the only tang that's a full tang knife, and go all hurr-durr stupid when somebody says that the system that's been working perfectly well since man first made a copper knife before we learned to write works perfectly well.
