Posts: 2,160 Location: New Hampshire
Sat 09 Apr, 2005 10:05 am
P.S.
Judging the grip with the measurement you gave on the blades width leads me to believe it's within normal specs of period pieces ..... but I will be curious to hear the exact overall length ?
Alot of folks tend to believe that ones hand should fit between the haunch & pommel on these dirks, and that anything smaller had to be for a small person, this is just not the case !
( I compare this train of thought to the Viking hammer grip issue ;-)
Fighting dirks of this period were purposely built to these specs , and they have a history of working just fine & dandy !
Mac
P.P.S.
I have a picture of my VE briar wood dirk's grip next to two originals at the Museum of Scotland, one of which is the afformentioned 2:6 pierced pommel/cloth piece that is in the CTSATS book, and all three measure in right about 4" inches!
Grip - 4" (pommel cap to end of brass throat)
Wood area - 3 1/2"
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