Does anyone know where I could find a sharpened saex knife? Not a stage combat one like the Iberia Practical scramasax, but one that I could use as a dagger. Because of my rank in this reenactment society at my school, I can only carry a weapon with a blade of 6 in. or under, and I'd prefer 6 in., it seems like a good length.

You could try this one...recently released, and very inexpensive. It is from the new Gen2 line.

http://www.imperialweapons.com/product/IP-007.html

It's available other places, as well, this was just the first link I found. It's not appropriate to all periods and locations, of course, but is a fairly accurate, if generic, basic small seax.

Andrew,

There's an outdoor/hunting knife that's made by a Norwegian company called Bruseletto ( that may not be spelled exactly right) called the Norren which might do double duty for you. The blade is less than 6" long but it could easily pass for a small sax and other times be a usable knife for hunting, hiking, whatever.

Dude nice you signed up! There only 3.5in but the paul chen scramasaxes are the best looking small knives www.viking-shield.com/knives.html The Brusletto Norron knife also looks good.

I found this,
http://knivesbynick.co.uk/knife_kits.htm Ctrl-F Seax Blades
I think I should get that and the stag handle. Do you think that that ones accurate? I believe so, but I'm no sure.

Andrew,
If you have a moment, look at the links in Jeroen's signature. There's an amazing amount of good, historical seax information there.

Also, what time period are you looking at?
Does time period matter?
If not then what does matter?

High middle ages and Renaissance(Late 15th to Early-Mid 17th Century), I know, large range of years.

With this time frame you should be looking for a bollock knife or some kind of dagger or hunting knife. The seax belongs to an era long gone.

A stiletto perhaps?
A folding knife?

It very much depends on your "persona".
Start by shaping an outline in place, time and social standing. Then you can think of a proper blade to carry.

Seaxs were in prevalence during the 1100s and 1200s(the 12th and 13th century), as well as the aforementioned eras after that, they were still in use in Ireland and Northern Italy, just not as prevalent. My persona is an Irishman.