[Dan D'Silva]

Hello again.

As my plans for various projects have evolved, this little dagger blade has wound up orphaned. I'd like to hilt it in mid-18th-century style, if there is such a thing when we're talking about this style of blade. I'm aware of plug bayonets that date to early in the century and naval dirks from the end, but currently the closest thing I know of from the middle is the single-edged whinger. Can anyone point me to other examples?

[Dan D'Silva]

Oh hey, I also just found the exact original that the Crazy Crow New Orleans dirk -- which is where I got this blade and the crossguard of my sort-of-smallsword from -- is based on.

https://www.abebooks.com/AMERICAN-PRIMITIVE-KNIVES-1770-1870-Minnis-Gordon/31458659461/bd

The author says that he "would expect this example to have been made in the later 1700's."

[Glen A Cleeton]

There were plenty of Mediterranean daggers in southern Europe. Here is a dagger I adopted that represents Italy, as an everyday knife.






http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=29211Cheers

GC