Kevin Harvey MS Cinquedea dagger

Marcel54

Marcel54

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After a period of not being able to buy knives (because of medical reasons I won't bother you with) I was recently in the position of buying a new knife.
The knife I bought is this dagger:

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The specs are:
Maker: Kevin Harvey MS
Blade length: 12.00 in.
Total length: 18.25 in.
Blade width: 0.25 in.
Blade thickness: 2.10 in.
Blade: Five bar composite mosaic Damascus
Bolster: Engraved hot gun-blued mild steel
Handle: Stabilized and dyed giraffe shin bone (yes I know :D )

This Italian Cinquedea style dagger has a hollow ground blade with very crisp grind lines and deep fullers to lighten the blade. The highly complex five-bar composite blade combines a flame pattern centre bar surrounded by twist pattern edges.
The guard is hot gun-blued mild steel and is engraved and 24kt gold inlays accent the guard depicting Alexander the Great astride his favourite mount, Bucephalus. On the reverse, the fabled winged horse Pegasus is displayed. Each side of the handle holds engraved likenesses of Roman coins. On one side is the visage of Janus, the all seeing two faced god. The reverse shows Alexander the Great.

Yesterday the FedEx guy delivered and I must say the pictures doesn't do this one justice.

Marcel

FYI The Cinquedea was used primarily as a thrusting weapon. Cinquedea means "five fingers" and it describes the width of the blade next to the guard.
 
I had the good pleasure to handle this one at the Reno Show this year. Those pictures dont begin to do it justice.
 
And since Kevin is actually from Africa, he is permitted to use giraffe bone:D
 
That is spectacular piece - so many wonderful details to enjoy. Congrats!

Roger
 
Thanks guys, there are indeed many details to look at and enjoy. That damascus is incredible and the fullers and grinds are dead on. In spite of the size and weight of this knife the balance is just where you expect it to be, just in front of the guard.

As for the giraffe bone, I followed all the discussions on BF, didn't give an opinion because I hadn't any knife with this handle material. Now I do and I must say, although ivory remains my all time favorite, this stuff is much better looking than its reputation gives it credit for (at least this one does IMHO). Besides that I think that with this period piece this material is in character. Finally I agree with JDM61, Kevin is indeed from Africa and there are a lot of those beasts over there.;)

Marcel
 
Hi Marcel,

The closer I look at this piece the more incredible the workmanship. How he combined two grinds to one at the tip can NOT be an easy task. Wow.

Did Kevin do the engraving?? No mention of that, and it's important. Superkudos to him if he did.

I am glad I didn't have the task of shooting this. What a challenge!

Congrats overall.

Coop
 
Coop, the grinds are amazing and rather complex indeed and yes Kevin did the engraving as well.

I'm very pleased with this one as you can imagine.

Marcel
 
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