For grips in general...
Probably about a week after Ug the Neolithic man first tanned a piece of leather. Og the Neolithic man would've looked at the hilt of his stone knife and said "Hey...this thing's really uncomfortable to hold. I wonder if wrapping it up in some of that brown stuff Ug made out of a deerskin would help?"
It seems reasonable to speculate that the process would have carried over to swords/spears, depending on the individual's personal taste, resources, and in the case of swords, style of grip (as mentioned above.)
Jeroen Zuiderwijk wrote: | ||
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I'm not going to denie that fact because your right, but the point I was making was that with the evidence of man from earlier periods than the vikings using leather for cothes etc I wouldnt be surprised if an earlier example of a leather wrapped handle was found but untill that day it is only speculation nothing more
Carl Goff wrote: |
For grips in general...
Probably about a week after Ug the Neolithic man first tanned a piece of leather. Og the Neolithic man would've looked at the hilt of his stone knife and said "Hey...this thing's really uncomfortable to hold. I wonder if wrapping it up in some of that brown stuff Ug made out of a deerskin would help?" |
"and it will stop the thing getting frozen to my hand in this long Northern Ice Age " :D
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