Scottish Handshake

Scottish Handshake
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Basic Information
Used by:	Demoman
Slot:	Melee
Contributed by:	NeoDement
Released:	October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)
Availability:	Drop, Craft, Purchase or Chemistry Set (Collector's)
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Craft No.?:	Yes
Medieval:	Yes
Available Qualities
Unique Collector's
Loadout Stats
The Scottish Handshake Level 10 Bottle Your enemies will think you're making peace, right up until the terrifying moment that their hand is very seriously cut! Here's the trick: It's a broken bottle!

“

Imagine if I hadn't been drunk! Ah heh. Click to listen — The Demoman after successfully using a bottle as a weapon

”

The Scottish Handshake is a community-created melee weapon for the Demoman. It is a dark brown glass rum bottle, made by the Demoman's DeGroot family ancestors in 1680.

This weapon functions identically to the Bottle.

While the weapon works similarly to most of the other melee weapons, if a critical hit is achieved when striking a surface or player, the Scottish Handshake's lower half shatters and remains so until the player is killed (it does not mend upon touching a Resupply locker). This is purely cosmetic; the broken Scottish Handshake has the same range and deals no more or less damage than it did prior to being broken.

The Scottish Handshake was later contributed to the Steam Workshop, at Valve's request.

The backpack icon was contributed by smash.mn

Damage and function times

See also: Damage

Identical to: Bottle

Damage and function times
Damage type		Melee
Ranged or Melee damage?		Melee
Damage
Base damage	100%	65
Critical		195
Mini-crit		88
Function times
Attack interval		0.8 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Item set

Main article: Item sets

Swashbuckler's Swag
	Scottish Handshake Buccaneer's Bicorne A Whiff of the Old Brimstone Bootlegger
Effect	No effect

Crafting

Main article: Crafting

Blueprint

Class Token - Demoman		Slot Token - Melee		Scrap Metal		Possible Results
	+		+		=

As a crafting ingredient

Refined Metal		Swashbuckler's Swag weapon		Possible Results
x4	+		=

Related achievements

 Demoman

The Scottish Play Get a melee kill while sticky jumping.

Update history

October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update & Sale)

• The Scottish Handshake was added to the game.

September 4, 2012 Patch

• Backpack sounds updated for the Scottish Handshake.

October 26, 2012 Patch (Spectral Halloween Special)

• [Undocumented] Removed shattered-bottle materials from the game files.

June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)

• [Undocumented] Re-added broken model for the Scottish Handshake.

October 20, 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)

• Fixed the Scottish Handshake not having its models break on critical hits.

Bugs

• When performing a mini-crit melee strike with the charge of the Tide Turner, the Scottish Handshake appears broken for a brief period before quickly returning to normal.

Trivia

• The term "Scottish Handshake" refers to the stereotype that a person of Scottish heritage greets people with physical assault, due to their stereotypical violent nature.
• The year that appears on the bottle, 1680, was chosen because it was the year the notorious pirate Blackbeard was born.
• This item was originally showcased in the Medieval Update, together with the rest of Swashbuckler's Swag set.

Gallery

• 

  First-person view.

• 

  First-person view of the broken bottle.

• 

  The broken Scottish Handshake model.

• 

  Steam Workshop thumbnail for the Scottish Handshake.

See also

• Scottish Handshake strategy