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<p>[QUOTE="the blacksmith, post: 10559582, member: 20148"]bercrystal, <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":smug:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Thankyou.</p><p><br /></p><p>Komo, I believe that they were made by machine. The blade tapers ever so slighly, and the I marks where the taper begins. This blade was one of 4000 that were over produced in 1942, so it was decided to make them into a different bayonet so as not to waste the blades. This what it was originally intended to look like. So the taper starts much further along the blade. As it happens, most of the type shown below were scrapped anyway!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]530225[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="the blacksmith, post: 10559582, member: 20148"]bercrystal, :smug: Thankyou. Komo, I believe that they were made by machine. The blade tapers ever so slighly, and the I marks where the taper begins. This blade was one of 4000 that were over produced in 1942, so it was decided to make them into a different bayonet so as not to waste the blades. This what it was originally intended to look like. So the taper starts much further along the blade. As it happens, most of the type shown below were scrapped anyway! [ATTACH=full]530225[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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