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Nathan Robinson
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Chad Arnow
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Hopefully people enjoy this group. The Spotlight article is now probably the most comprehensive pictorial reference available for ballock daggers, either in print or online.
With this group, we also welcome Ralph Rudolph as an author. Thanks, Ralph! We also have expanded the breadth of our reviews, covering two new makers: Tod's Stuff and John Gage. 
ChadA
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Jessen Klaus
Location: Denmark/ Fredericia Joined: 27 Feb 2004
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Thank's for the great update !
Its nice with some focus on daggers, I dont think daggers got the attention they deserve, so it's great to se such great handwork.
A bit congrats to Jason Elrod for a wery informative and well written article, I se forward to read more of his work.
best regards
Klaus
Best regards
Klaus
Swords on waiting list
The Hauptmann,The Markgraf,
The Munich,The Knech,The Maximilian & The Dane
Sword's I'm selling/trading
Triton from Odinblades
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Chad Arnow
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| Posted: Mon 20 Aug, 2007 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| Jessen Klaus wrote: | Thank's for the great update !
Its nice with some focus on daggers, I dont think daggers got the attention they deserve, so it's great to se such great handwork.
A bit congrats to Jason Elrod for a wery informative and well written article, I se forward to read more of his work.
best regards
Klaus |
Daggers do sometimes get short schrift, but we try to include them when we can. This is our fourth all-dagger update grouping. We're currently hard at work on a couple more.
While swords seem to get more attention due to their popularity and frequency in the market, it's not all we focus on.
ChadA
http://chadarnow.com/
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Greg Griggs
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Must say that I enjoyed this update quite well. Jason gives a ton of info in the spotlight article, and having handled PK's John Gage Ballock, I can feel a certain kinship to what each auther wrote about this special style of dagger. Congrats on another great update, guys.
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
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Jessen Klaus
Location: Denmark/ Fredericia Joined: 27 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon 20 Aug, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Chad Arnow wrote: |
Daggers do sometimes get short schrift, but we try to include them when we can. This is our fourth all-dagger update grouping. We're currently hard at work on a couple more
While swords seem to get more attention due to their popularity and frequency in the market, it's not all we focus on. |
I hardly cant wait for more updates on the daggers, I'm havin a period where dagger's are my main focus when I buy new stuff.
My goal is to have at least one qood quality reproduction of each of the 5 types.
attached are my last daggert.
Best regards
Klaus
Swords on waiting list
The Hauptmann,The Markgraf,
The Munich,The Knech,The Maximilian & The Dane
Sword's I'm selling/trading
Triton from Odinblades
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Michal Plezia
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Great updates! I am also great fan of daggers.Thanks guys for all that info.It should save me much time.
www.elchon.com
Polish Guild of Knifemakers
The sword is a weapon for killing, the art of the sword is the art of killing. No matter what fancy words you use or what titles you put to
it that is the only truth.
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Michael S. Rivet
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Love the spotlight articles! Keep 'em coming, gentlemen. This is one of my favorite on-line magazines.
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Jean Thibodeau
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As the owner of the Cocobolo John Gage ballock dagger I' m really pleased to see this review and I have to agree to all of it.
The choice of coobolo was mine as it's as a colour and grain pattern I really like. The historically correct choice of wood wasn't a concern for me.
The subtlety curved triangular back of the blade is very nice and it's interesting to see it through someone else's eyes: Jason comments are very useful to me as I look again at this dagger and maybe notice consciously now a few things I hadn't noticed before like the way the bronze guard blends with the wood as if it was all one piece.
The bronze has acquired a little natural and very attractive patina and a few light wear marks from sliding the dagger in and out of the scabbard.
A little occasional wipe with linseed oil and renaissance wax really brings out the colour and grain of the wood and makes it feel even more " glass smooth ".
Oh, the blade is quite sharp so that even if a chopping cut would not be very effective with a very light and rear balanced blade a slicing draw cut would get to the bone with little effort and the blade it stout enough and pointy enough that it could do the same job as a rondel.
With it's single edge blade it may be more of a " Jack of all trades " than Patrick's double edged blade: I can see sticking it in a big piece of boar meat, cutting bread or an apple and being a reassuring companion when heading back to one's lodgings after a meal at a local tavern.
Oh, I also enjoyed the other reviews.
You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!
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Lee O'Hagan
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Excellent update,
Big thumbs up to all involved,
my only problem now is i may have to find a ballock dagger for myself 
Cheer's all.
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Glen A Cleeton
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I am days late in reading these. Nathan knows I don't vote excellent unless i mean it. I really appreciate the total (more than less) overview type feature updates and this one is another I find pretty exceptional in the scope of material covered.
Cheers
GC
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Nathan Robinson
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Tim Lison
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Really good articles! I especially enjoyed the feature on the Ballock dagger. It is nice to see so many pics in one place. Also, the reviews were all good. The examples in the reviews were all really nice too. I love the rich woods used in the grips of these daggers. Thanks guys!
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