Ginormous antique cleaver/lamb splitter/zombie demobilization device

[John Johnson]

Here's an interesting cleaver, or probably more accurately a lamb splitter in cleaver terms. It's big and wide, but balanced and surprisingly not unwieldy at 3 pounds and 14 ounces. It's got a 10" heavy convex cutting edge with a surprisingly smooth edge. In front of the 9,5" wrapped handle the stock is 1/2", tapering to about 3/16" through most of the length of the spine that doesn't appear to have been abused with hammer strikes like a lot of old cleavers. Width of blade is 4" at the heel and at the widest about 5.5'. Handle has probably been re-wrapped somewhere in the past, with copper washers and copper rivet on both sides holding the probably either cotton or hemp cording on. Kind of looks like hemp. It's a very tight wrap on it and has probably been stabilized with shellac. As far as maker goes, I researched the very faint stamp on it years ago. I don't remember the maker, but it was made around 1900. Beat the Apocalypse. Slay some zombies today.

Price is sold shipped USPS ground. Can do PP, Venmo, and so on.

 

[Gunlover911]

Is it sharp? Looks very cool.

 

[John Johnson]

For a cleaver with a thicker convex edge, yes. It's not shaving sharp by any stretch, and if you run your finger along the edge lightly it won't cut you. Press down while you're running your finger along the edge, and yes, it will cut you. But where a cleaver shines is if you drop the blade a few inches above your finger, it will be removed. Traditional cleavers excel at splitting bones, not so much because of a sharp edge, but an edge with a lot of mass behind the cutting edge when swung. Cleavers like this were used to split livestock carcasses in slaughter houses during that time. I can't imagine swinging one of these all day, much less in a slaughter house in the very early 1900's.

 

[John Johnson]

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