Mid-to-late XVth century style.

High Carbon Steel blade (1075), scale tang construction with steel tubular rivets (hand rolled) and fileworked edges ; walnut scales, and hollow steel roundels assembled as was done in the XVth century (although I didn't go to the extant of using a hidden plate set inside the guard, as I did on other models, to save some time).


OAL 361 mm, with a 212 mm blade (7 mm thick at its base).


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I do like that.

It is always too easy to settle on the standards of a pair of round(isn) discs or the Burgundian style, both of which I love, but it is always great to see something from a less represented sub-class like this and of course beautifully executed.

Great job on a lovely piece - well done.

Tod

Thanks Tod.

Hello Fabrice,

This is a very nice dagger! You did excellent work, very clean. I didn't know that some roundels were hollow, very interesting.

Thanks for showing it to us.

it looks amazing, however i cant shake the fact that the hollow rivets and mirror polished rounded guard and pommel remind me of modern chromed steel plumbing fittings and such...

it;'s a very unusual design that.. really throws me off with regards to what designs were made and what wasnt

Fabrice,
that is a very nice knife, and it makes me want to learn more about that style. I have been working in Chinese stuff, mostly. I need to learn more about European edged weapons and their history. This piece is inspiring in the truest sense. Hope someone who will appreciate it buys it soon!
kc

Hello all

I made a scabbard for this dagger :

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Vegetable-tanned leather, dyed using Iron oxydes (as usual) - hand-carved, hand-stitched. Steel scabbard end, hand-filed to shape.

This might look too much of a high-end decoration for the scabbard of a rather plain dagger - but the decoration itself is not very elaborate (in terms of crudeness), as known by many examples ; plus, it was quite feasable to have a fancy scabbard commissionned at a later date for a dagger one already owned.


Cheers

Fab

Fabrice, I really liked the dagger, especially the not-so-often-seen construction and how you took on it - and with this scabbard it´s exquisite!

Thank you, Radovan.