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Benjamin Rial
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 Posted: Sat 15 Sep, 2012 3:00 pm Post subject: A Dagger for My Captain |
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Here is a dagger I made for the Captain of the late 15th century mercenary company that I work with. The guard and pommel are from his old A & A dagger and the blade and grip were made by myself. The blade is 9.5" long and 1" at its widest with a thickness at the guard of 0.185" with a distal taper to 0.09 at 3/4" from the point. The grip is crotch-cut black walnut. The blade is 1095. Overall length is 15 1/4". I'll be working on the sheath later this next week and will post pics when completed.
Comments/questions welcome.
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Vel Arte, Vel Marte
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Daniel Wallace
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| Posted: Sat 15 Sep, 2012 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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sleek!
again i'm a fan of your choise in walnut.
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Benjamin Rial
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| Posted: Sun 16 Sep, 2012 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Thank you Daniel. I was very lucky to get quite a lot of this very nice black walnut. This isn't even the fanciest stuff I have. I'm saving it for a very fancy piece.
"The only thing new in this world is the history we don't know."-Pres. Harry S. Truman
www.forgedintime.com
Vel Arte, Vel Marte
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Daniel Wallace
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i've got some cherry on the side of my shop just begging to be worked into a piece. last fall i cut a plum tree out of the yard, upon inspection there were these great dark lines in the wood, and its grain was really tight, so i cut the whole trunk out and dired it. i'm going to use it in my next rebuild project and i'm itching to see what it looks like.
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