A Cinquedea-Moran Style

Gary Mulkey

Gary Mulkey

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Last year I purchased a copy of "Master of the Forge" about Bill Moran and his knives and knew at the time that I wanted to make one of these. This is my first Moran style knife that I've made. I'm not sure why I picked the cinquedea style other than it presented me with a challenge as some of the forging techniques required were new to me. Though it isn't an exact copy of any of Moran's cinquedeas, it was definitely in his style of them. After a recent thread on copying the work of others, I was a little reluctant to post this but I don't think that Bill would have minded my copying his style.

Moran stated that in his opinion the cinquedea was the most difficult style of dagger to build and I now know why.

This one has a blade of W1 steel with rosewood scales and brass furniture.

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Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Gary
 
Whoa! I like it too!

Very nice work, I think Mr. Moran would approve!

Steve
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Member, W.F. Moran Museum & Foundation
 
The genuine article, you came very close
Dave
 

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Very nice. My limited personal contact with Mr. Moran toward the end of his life led me to believe that he had no problem with people trying to riff off of his work. Attribution is the key to maintaining harmonious relations in many cases, ya know.
 
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