JPH Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Howdy!! Here's a dagger I worked on in between my other work...ie, when things were cooling off, drying or otherwise "dead time"..I do not like standing around wasting time so I do little things here and there,.This is one of them-thar little things... The blade is 14" long welded cable dagger from XX Improved plowshare steel cable..file worked forged phosphor bronze mounts. The grip is a piece of greyish Pre-World War One Bakelite that I fluted..I figure it took me about a month or so of working part time on this 10 minutes here...25 minutes there and all.. didn't turn out bad at all... back to the salt mines for me...I just blew up my grinder and now I have to raise some serous lucre to get the replacement parts...no rest for the wicked as they say.. JPH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Another beauty Jim. I don't get the pommel though, I'd be worried about hooking my forearm if I got to moving it. Is it a particular type or style? Where do you come up with pre WWII bakalite? What happened to your grinder? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPH Posted January 7 Author Share Posted January 7 Frosty: Since you asked....the Bakelite I got came from a pool cue manufacturer that was going out of business. I got boxes and boxes of this stuff..wrapped in newsprint dated from 1912 to 1915..reading the papers from back then was interesting in itself... The grinder..ohhhh boy...well I had a wheel explode..the tyre came off in chunks and when you have a 14" wheel turning that fast and it blows..it's nasty..well when it blew it became unbalanced and that threw out the bearings,,bent the arm and that jammed the machine..when the grinding belt popped it jammed up the other two wheels and one of those also went ka-blooey and came apart.. It was like a grenade went off..all sorts of stuff flying through the air,,pinging off this and that..myself included..got a good sized bruise on my left side from where I got in the way of a piece of that wheel.. So I am down three wheels...six bearings a wheel support arm and two drive "V" belts... Geeze the $$ they want for wheels is outrageous.. I THINK I can save one of the wheels.. and have it re-tyred but the 14" one is toast..when it came apart it deformed where the bearings go..and the other one is pretty much the same....no fun at all... JPH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 8 hours ago, Frosty said: Is it a particular type or style? To my non-specialist eye, it looks a lot like a Type Q from Mikael Jakobsson's hilt typology: (See https://sagy.vikingove.cz/en/jakobssons-hilt-typology/) And here's a video of HEMA practitioner (and antique sword dealer) Matt Easton talking about how a similar hilt design informs fighting technique: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 That's a score alright Jim. Years ago I was helping a friend with the house he was renting in Talkeetna Ak. He wanted to improve the insulation and re-panel it. Like so many places built at the turn of the last century it was insulated with old news papers. We spent as much time reading old papers as working on the house. He donated most to the local museum. I'm glad you didn't get hit by more debris when your grinder self destructed. That could've been so much worse! I won't spend so much time cursing when a belt breaks and slaps my hand from now on. I'd like to have a large contact wheel but mine is a home build and I only have the platen. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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