Cutlery Museum Cutlery Museum The Cutlery Museum is a museum located in Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme in France in the department of Puy-De-Dome. The museum has been open since 1982 to preserve the memory of the Thiers cutlery industry. The Cutlery Museum consists of three buildings distributed between the city center, among which the one is dedicated to the history of the cutlery industry (in the former "House of the Consuls", registered in Monuments History 1983) and the other one in demonstrations of manufacturing of knives and in exhibition of knives of art, and the village of Castle-strapping lad (Thiers) Château-Gaillard where one can
Messer (weapon) Landsknecht. There is a typology created by James G. Elmslie for messers and falchions similar to the Oakeshott typology based on ongoing research. Messer are characterized by their single-edged blades. The lengths and shapes of the blade can vary greatly. Messer blades can be straight or curved. Extant examples of langes messer seem to have an overall length of with a blade, and a weight between . The defining characteristic of messer is their hilt construction. Quite notable in its construction was the attachment of blade to the hilt via a slab tang sandwiched between two wooden grip plates that