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Nice! I wonder, is that legally a dagger?

I threw some polish on my Keris scabbard, looks a bit better than it did when I bought it I think. I still have a lot of work to do on the blade. I'm still having issues removing all the paint.
 
Almost tiger mapleish looking wood. Really looking nice.

I thought when I first saw the oval lighter wood that it was a repair, I'm trying to wrap my mind about their thinking in doing it that way.
A bad spot that large or the new piece that size so they made it fit? Curiosity sometimes gets the best of me.
 
blue lander said:
Nice! I wonder, is that legally a dagger?

I threw some polish on my Keris scabbard, looks a bit better than it did when I bought it I think. I still have a lot of work to do on the blade. I'm still having issues removing all the paint.
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In most place I'm aware of that have laws against daggers, there isn't much legal definition but case law generally holds that any knife that is double-edged is a dagger. However I'm told that where I currently live that the knife laws are very light and pretty much anyone can carry anything as long as they aren't a criminal or committing a crime.
 
That repair has me curious too. Was it done overseas or here? What were they trying to repair? The repair matches the contours of the scabbard fairly well so it's not like some dude just slapped some balsa wood in there. Some effort was put into maintaining the shape of the scabbard. But the repair doesn't quite match the hole
 
Is it a soft wood like balsa or can you tell? Wonder if that's why they chose that wood.

But they did go to some effort to make it fit in with the scabbard. Interesting.
 
It feels a little soft but not balsa soft. It's cheap ugly wood, whatever it is, especially compared to the nice wood the rest of the scabbard is made of. They put a lot of effort into carving the shape of the repair but no effort of making it look good as far as fit/finish. I believe whoever did the repair didn't care how it looked because they were just going to douse it in paint. As long as the shape was right, the rest didn't matter because the paint hid it.

But why spend the effort of carving the repair so carefully but then dunking the whole thing in ugly paint, getting paint all over the blade in the process and not even bothering to clean it off before it dries? I don't get it.
 
maybe they were going to paint it like the ones in the other place & got cold feets. :)

Linky

quite a few painted ones there in that thread.
 
Difficult to read but very interesting. Kronckew, if you're ever in the States we should meet up and our Kerises can have a spiritual duel. Loser buys drinks.
 
Soba bunch of my inlaws came over to BBQ for Memorial Day. After a few bottles of vodka and whiskey me and the other menfolk decided to build a fire. I had a bunch of firewood but it needed to be split. Nobody was in any shape to be swinging an axe so I whipped out the KLVUK. I left the inlaws to baton through enough wood to get the fire started. Thankfully they managed this task without losing any fingers.

The lot of them only spoke a word or two English, but when they handed me the KLVUK back, one of them said "Strong knife".
 
Just found this one. Looks to be an early M43, has a really high blade bevel like a Bonecutter but is only 28 oz.

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She is headed into the spa right now for a polish and oil bath.
 
Really nice looking karda and chakmak on that one.

...so I was perusing E-Bay as I always do when I decide to waste money I don't have, and I saw this odd little dagger. The hilt is obviously something someone made in their garage, but I thought the blade looked nice and it was cheap so I bought it. After a bit of googling I think it's from a WW2 Luftwaffe dagger. The seller says the dagger is marked "Solingen Robiklars" but I can't find any record of a company called Robiklars. He's probably misreading it. I'll take a closer look when it arrives.

Does anybody know anything about WW2 daggers?

Edit: I think I answered my own question. It probably says Robiklaas, which is the mark of Robert Klaas

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It was pretty common for people to take various German military daggers from WWII and do that kind of thing. Even during the war the German cutlery industry made pretty good stuff. It wasn't strange for GIs to get Hitler Youth daggers as souvenirs and carry them. It wouldn't surprise me if the handle on that one broke and someone decided they knew how to make a handle, and made that unergonomic thing. I think I recall seeing that makers mark on HJ (Hitler Jugend, it's the easiest abbreviation) daggers, and by all accounts German military knives were high quality. Solingen today still produces tons of knives. A friend of mine lived there for a little while. Apparently you can use "what knife are you carrying?" as a conversation starter in that town.
 
That web page I posted above has a method for determining if a Keris is a "good match" for you.

One method that was used on an already existing keris was to place your right and left thumbs alternating each in turn up the blade, saying on each measurement, "Sri, Dungu, Dinia, Rara, Pati", and then starting over. Depending on the last thumb measurement, with the proper word, it designated the property of the blade for you. Sri signifies honor and dinia means the world, with both being good omens. Rara means sickness and pati is death, so stay away from this keris.
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I followed it and ended up with "sickness". This book on google has a few other methods for counting, and no matter which one I try I end up with results like "Bad Omen"

https://books.google.com/books?id=C...d=0CCsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=keris thumb&f=false

So I don't think this Keris likes me very much. Oh well!

When the Luftwaffe dagger arrives I'm going to try to free it from it's hilt. I might buy a cheapo $25 replica and mount the blade in that, and replace the bits with real ones as I can afford it.
 
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