>>So... does anyone know where to find these, and is there a market for them? Does anyone know how to mow with it, or should I just look for a good place in the museum where to be hung as The Last Programmer Who Knew How To Use a Scythe?
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>You might have to wait before claiming the museum spot. I'll be using one for a while yet (actually the wife uses it - I'm a bit old fashioned :-})

Not the same museum. You Brits have a cult of grass, well lawn's actually. How did it go, "to cultivate a lawn you don't need any special seed, just start anywhere and mow 500 years". This side of the pond, you mention a grass cult , you may not necessarily be arrested, but you may become a suspect :).

>We've got a couple of old ones that have been in the barn for the last 50 years and a new one (similar to the Austrian design shown on some of the other links). The new one is c**p - the snath only curves in one dimension meaning that the centre of gravity is way out in front of where you're actually holding it so more effort goes into stopping the point digging into the ground than to doing any actual cutting.....

What? After all the bragging and claims of perfect ergonomy and bla bla bla, it's not even balanced? Now that I think of the pictures I saw, the handles point away from you, so the snath comes closer to you... not sure that's the best design. The one I got at home isn't curved, it's a plain straight wood, made by a village carpenter and bought at the marketplace, for the price of maybe a sixpack, and it's nearly perfect. BTW, once during peening, I bent the tip slightly up, last 50mm are about 15{sup}o{/sup} up, which helps when the ground is uneven.