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:	Craft, Drop, 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 1 - 100 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, apparently made by the Demoman's DeGroot family ancestors in 1680.

This weapon functions identically to the Bottle.

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.

Unused content

• A model for a broken Scottish Handshake exists in the game's files, suggesting that it was supposed to break on impact. While this is currently unused, the Scottish Handshake's in-game kill icon and description still hints at this.

Bugs

• When the Scottish Handshake is dropped on death, the dropped prop will appear to stand upright on its cork in client view.

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 the rum was supposedly made, 1680, was chosen because it was the year the notorious pirate Blackbeard was born.
• The weapon was originally showcased in the Medieval Update, together with the rest of Swashbuckler's Swag set.

Gallery

• 

  First-person view.

• 

  Steam Workshop thumbnail for the Scottish Handshake.

• 

  The broken Scottish Handshake model, currently unused in-game.

See also

• Scottish Handshake strategy