Daggers!

[MTMilitiaman]

The dagger has been a symbol of prestige and martial professionalism since the Bronze Age, and spans nearly every culture and continent in human history. I have been fascinated by daggers for a while now but as they serve little utility beyond combative or ceremonial purposes, was never able to cough up the dough.
I've had a love affair with a CRKT M21, which is my current EDC, for about five years. During this time I have considered myself an advocated of Columbia River Knife and Tool and have bought two of them as gifts (an M16 for my sis and another M21 for a friend of mine). A friend of mine showed knew I was interested in daggers and showed me I could get a CRKT Sangrador from Midway for $70, which is about half of MSRP. I jumped on it, figuratively, of course.

It has a 5.5 inch SK5 blade, double-edge, of course. It came wicked sharp. It is light and nimble in the hand, and I love the G10 Micarta grips. I am not crazy about the serrations, but don't mind if they are kept to a min because they do help cutting certain materials. "Sangrador" is apparently Latin for "bleeder," BTW.

Anybody else have a "thing" for daggers?

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Well, I have two Gerbers, a Mk1 and a Mk2 so I guess I might have a "thing" for daggers ..?
Oh, would a WW2 Mk3 combat knife count as well ? Got a couple of them that I've restored and they are semi-double edged.

 

[Gordon]

 

[Gordon]

 

[Gordon]

this was a commision and I have never seen it's egual in a non art type knife
Stephan Fowler damascus confederate Dagger with Spalted Amboyna stabilized grips. 13" of crazy sharpe strong steel

 

[Gordon]

Want to thank the mods for moving these pictures of my Fowler Dagger I put in wrong place. I have a Randall 6" Tooth pic that is unmistakely a "dagger" being needle pointed. I actually had a real Fairbairn and a few others that are long gone. But this 13" double bladed scary thing is what I'd want if I had to "Dagger "

 

[Gordon]

 

[Michael Tinker Pearce]

A 'Thing' for daggers? You might say so; I made this one in May, styled after a Baselard in the Met's collection-

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I had to look that one up Michael. That is one nasty , but cool, looking dagger.
That would be a good project for those "Forged in Fire" tv show contestants.

 

[bannockburn]

Got a few daggers too.

 

[TimboKhan]

I own one dagger, an old Gerber that I found in Somalia and thought I had lost. Good knife. I would say I am fond of them, but no knife style seems to lend itself to goofy and non-usable fantasy designs as much as a dagger does. Swords probably are worse in that regard, but they aren't a knife. A good dagger is always cool, a bad dagger is the worst.

 

[Speedo66]

A 'Thing' for daggers? You might say so; I made this one in May, styled after a Baselard in the Met's collection-
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First looking at it I thought the grip was cast bronze. I then discovered it was chiseled wood. Very nice!

 

[kBob]

I had a FS I got in the service that had a broad head mark, but it joined a motor cycle gang one night. I had carried it on patrols around a Pershing Missile Site for a couple of years as a youth as I thought it perfect for dealing with the sort of clothing one might wear in a German winter.

It was stolen from my car in Lawton OK when I was living off post while stationed at Ft. Sill. The also used the tools found in my car (they got in with a coat hanger) to break into the Sheriff deputy's car and another in the parking lot. The Deputy and I were confident we would find them though. Who ever found my FS knife apparently used it to cut the belt hanger off the sheath, likely to just stick the sheath in a boot top, and cut themselves pretty good. From the amount of blood we were sure a emergency room check would turn up the thieves.

Before any motor bike fans get angry for my suggesting bikers......biker bar on the corner and a tire track in one puddle of blood as well as only witness commenting about folks pushing bikes from parking lot around 3 AM.

I sort of replaced the FS and its companion single edge with a Gerber of the type with an M3 like blade as I was leaving Sill the next week.

Closest I have to an FS these days is a "Made in India" POC I mistakenly bought by mail years ago.

-kBob

 

[bikerdoc]

I dont own any.
Not because they are not elegant and useful but because here in VA dirks and daggers are considered deadly weapons and enumerated in the deadly weapon statute.
You can own them but not carry them.

Knife rights is working on the switchblade prohibition.

 

[Rexster]

I bought an Eikhorn FS2000, a limited-run, very-well-done modern interpretation of the FS, but with a blade profile seemingly a bit influenced by the Gerber Mark II, perhaps an effort to make it stronger. I liked it enough to then buy the last two that the dealer had in stock.

I also have a Gerber Mark I, which, due to the positive change in Texas knife law, is going to be legal for carry, virtually everywhere, on September First. (Blades over 5.5" will be restricted in some specified places.)

 

[Rexster]

Editing, is, apparently, disabled. In my above post, "Eickhorn" is the correct spelling. It is an old, and nicely historic, German cutlery company.

 

[stonebuster]

Here's one with some history. My father-in-law brought this S/A dagger back from Europe after WW2. The storm troopers/brown shirts carried them. Actually a rare one since it's marked with the RZM number as well as the manufacturer's name on the blade. "All for Germany" etched on blade. I wish it could talk.

 

[Kookla]

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This has got to be one of the most beautiful knives I've ever seen- and it's just a picture of it. Can only imagine how it looks in person. Blades like that get named.

 

[If1HitU]

A 'Thing' for daggers? You might say so; I made this one in May, styled after a Baselard in the Met's collection-
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I don't own any Daggers,but that's going to change soon thanks to seeing the ones here.

 

[entropy]

I have a couple- one functional, a Kershaw Amphipian, the rest costume quality, from when I did RenFest. I guess my Swiss AMT bayonet is close to a dagger, also. I had a Gerber like bannockburn's third one down when I was in the Army.

 

[jeepnik]

I'm not a big fan as I really don't have much use for them. But I have two, a Gerber Guardian, and a Sykes Fairbairn. The Gerber was bought on a whim, and the Sykes was a gift.

The Brits used to have, may still have, a parachute demo team some of whom jumped in full combat gear. They were doing a demo at the base I was stationed at. At one point several of them came into the firehouse and ask where they could get something to eat, so we fed them.

I mentioned the knife one was carrying (hadn't seen one yet). He pulled it out, and explained the history in pretty good detail. These guys knew not only how to use their equipment, but the history behind it as well. As he was leaving he handed me the knife. I ask if he would catch hell for loosing it. He just shrugged and said "I lost it on a jump".

By the way, watching some guys jump out of planes and do all kinds of fancy stuff might seem impressive, but watch a whole bunch of guys come out of the back of a C-130 and land in a coordinated manner, and ready to do battle is much more so.

 

[Slamfire]

I end up buying pretty knives that I never actually use. This dagger has a seven inch blade, same length as a USMC Kabar. It would create a real hurt in anyone stuck with the thing.

 

[hso]

I'm a big fan of Jesse's knives!