Glass Knives

Mark J.,
Excellant!!!!!! That's the knife. Now I really wish I had bought it. It was going for $28.00!!!:eek:

Ken,
Thanks for info.

--The Raptor--
 
It's fiction, I know, but in the move "From Dusk 'til Dawn" Quentin Tarantino's character gets stabbed through the hand by Danny Trejo with a nice looking glass dagger.
 
I seem to recall the knife in From Dusk Till Dawn being a United Cutlery Dragon Claw dagger, with a split blade and curved "talon" style quillons. I don't remember it being glass...?
 
Oh, man, what was that film?!?

I saw this one film, back in the 80s...it was one of those super-cheesy blonde-commando films--you remember the type? Where you discard your sense of belief that some busty blonde chick could actually be a super-ninja-deathtron-waste-o-matic killing machine, bent on vengeance because her lover/boyfriend/meat puppet got killed by the mafia/rival gang/hot-dog vendor, solely so you can see her put camouflage paint on her chest.

Anyway...oh, knife content...that's right. Anyway, at one point, she uses this hollow glass "Death Knife." A blade roughly the size and shape of Hibben's Rambo Bowie, but made of hollow glass, and filled with acid. The idea was that she'd stab someone with it and snap the blade off, adding insult to injury...

Of course, the thing most injured by this blade was my sense of believability...I mean, she carries this thing through the jungle, gets beat within an inch of her life, and it only breaks after she lodges in some guy's chest...not to mention that, despite its being about 16" long, during the compulsory strip search scene, she manages to keep it hidden from her captors. I can see it now...

Guard 1: We've finished the strip search, sir!
Guard 2: Very well. Nice posture, for a prisoner...
Guard 1: What?
Guard 2: Her posture. It's very good. Nice, straight back. Odd, how she walks, though.
Guard 1: I, uh...hadn't noticed...I never got that far down...
Guard 2: Oh. I DO see what you mean...maybe we should do a cavity search...?
Guard 1: Good idea...AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Still, it's an interesting, if not highly pragmatic, idea. Perhaps a cavity on the blade, where you could put an ampoule of poison or something...
 
You might be thinking of one of the Michael York "Musketeers" movies from the 70s. Either "The Three Musketeers" or "The Four Musketeers" I'm not sure which.

In one scene, Michael York as D'artangan is being chased about the boudoir by the Lady DeWinter who is wielding a glass dagger filled with some vile green liquid. Eventually she throws the dagger and it breaks against the wall and we see that it is filled with some "acid" substance.

Unlikely as it seems, there is some historic evidence that although they would have been INCREDIBLY rare, these poison filled glass "assasin's daggers" actually existed during the early to mid-1600s. This time period was the heyday of the "gadget weapon" and there were all manner of poison daggers, spring loaded multiple blade daggers and even OTB (out the BACK) auto knives concealed within an otherwise ordinary looking main gauche dagger(Also portrayed in one of the Musketeer flicks).

Perhaps due to the extreme fragility of a glass dagger, there are no surviving examples. (Since glass is a liquid, maybe they all evaporated?)
:D
 
I had one of those very rare glass knives with the poison in it but I sat on the friggin thing and chipped it. Then I tried to screw on a clip so I would never sit on it and it Broke....NEWBIES....Damn, it was valuable???????:eek:
 
Razor - this scene was in the Tittie Twister, when Danny Trejo (the mexican bartender with the BIG tattoo on his chest) comes over and plants what LOOKS like a double-edge, transparent dagger into Quentin's hand, after Cheech Marin bitches to him that George Clooney beat the shxt out of him. I'll have to look again tonight... I swore it looked glass - even had that funky translucent green color thick glass gets....
 
Let me know if you look at it again -- I'm certain that the knife was the United Cutlery piece I mentioned, though colored lighting might have made it look transparent. The reason I'm so sure is because I remember thinking, at the time I saw the film, that some friends of mine had presented the same knife to a friend in college for her birthday.
 
Y'know, now I'm not so sure... There was a good close up of the blade, and it DOES look like it's split, but the way the light's reflecting off of it - it just LOOKS like glass, ya know? The reflections aren't as sharp as they would be off of chrome, if that makes sense - like the blade wasn't perfectly smooth along its length - like glass would be. Damn, Razor! Rent it, and let me know what you think. It's worth the $3 anyway - good flick.
 
About the "From Dusk Til Dawn" thing, I am almost 100% positive that it was the United Cutlery Dagger, or at least a ripoff of one.
 
It wasn't that long ago that I saw the movie, and I'm pretty sure that's the knife. (It's basically a ripoff of the Hibben Double Shadow, with single talon claws for guards and a split blade.) When I get a chance I'll have to look at the video to be sure.
 
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