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Scara said:
Screw 'em.
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Actually a rolled up and bent over piece of newspaper can wreak havoc on pressure points. Probably a million and a half objects that would work but having something on hand 100% of the time and being familiar with it and where it is would probably give a huge advantage if attacked. With some practice that is.

The UK could use some Castle laws! Guess you just gotta make sure you kill all the perps so no one can talk after the fact.
 
This place is a museum....love it....for those who like sharp edges, the Moraknivs come quite sharp and can be taken to incredibly fine edges due to incredibly homogenous steel with no carbide clumping...and very easily by simply stropping tip first across 2000 grit sandpaper on a hard surface....
 
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Actually a rolled up and bent over piece of newspaper can wreak havoc on pressure points. Probably a million and a half objects that would work but having something on hand 100% of the time and being familiar with it and where it is would probably give a huge advantage if attacked. With some practice that is.

The UK could use some Castle laws! Guess you just gotta make sure you kill all the perps so no one can talk after the fact.
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Even better than a newspaper is a magazine. The medium gauge waxed paper is much tougher, and heavier. A rolled up magazine is also almost impossible to cut through with a knife, so you can block strikes with it, especially if your assailant isn't familiar with cutting techniques that may not cut through it but do reduce its effectiveness for attack and defense.
 
blue lander said:
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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Yup! The little bugger arrived today. I pulled the blade out of the hilt, and the tang was sawed down to size to fit the hilt. So if I were to try to mount this in it's original setting, I'd have to weld a piece of metal to the end of the tang with threads at the end to make it fit.

Otherwise it's in pretty good shape. Somebody sharpened one end of it toward the tip. It's a pretty nice piece of metal, if I try really hard I can flex it a little but it pops right back. Nice and pointy too.

Now I'm not sure what to do with it...
 
if they haven't taken off too much, you can still get the repo parts, shorten the grip it match the tang & file then thread the tang for the pommel. or make a proper cross guard from brass stock, a more appropriate fancy wood grip, epoxy, drill & pin it & make a leather or kydex sheath. no pommel needed.
 
I may go that route. I wasn't savoring the idea of having something bedecked in swastikas in my collection anyways.
 
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Whoooah! Thats a nice piece of project steel! That should be fun! Plenty of tang for structural support.
 
Cant wait to see what you decide to do with it. Looks like plenty of tang for a lot of different options. Whatever you do, make sure and share pictures.
I personally love the blade shape, and think it would look great with Kron's idea of brass and wood.
 
I'm leaning towards going with Kronckew's plan, but I'd rather not do any irreversible modifications to the thing like pinning it.

What I may try first is buying a $20 replica, saw off the missing bit of tang from the fake blade and epoxy it to the real blade. It wouldn't be the sturdiest configuration in the world but I don't foresee myself stabbing someone with a nazi dagger. Unless I become a super villain or something.
 
Your not a super villain, well that myth is completely shot down the toilet. ....................
 
I doubt you would manage to get a perfect enough mate for glue...a low temp solder followed by a lower temp solder to fill gaps, maybe. Unfamiliar with project or desires but first inch or two of tang take all the load and longer tangs only prevent back from trying to rock and eventually loosen and crack hole in handle.
If back part only needed for attaching a pommel, a short piece of copy tang back there glued into place will not go anywhere...BUT, many cheap import copies have only a bit of threaded rod tack welded to a tang stub hiding inside handle...which would require copy handle as well....

If original blade epoxied into copy handle, no loss on taking a heat gun to handle and charring handle while epoxy is destroyed by heat for unaltered blade removal.
 
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I thought about that but an NVA dolch costs nearly $200. And it'd be a shame to mutilate one just to put some solingen steel in it.

Sometimes you see Luftwaffe or Heer daggers with the swasticas chiseled off, presumably due to denazification efforts. They go for less than an unaltered dagger, maybe I'll hold out for the cross guard and pommel from one of them
 
blue lander said:
I thought about that but an NVA dolch costs nearly $200. And it'd be a shame to mutilate one just to put some solingen steel in it.

Sometimes you see Luftwaffe or Heer daggers with the swasticas chiseled off, presumably due to denazification efforts. They go for less than an unaltered dagger, maybe I'll hold out for the cross guard and pommel from one of them
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I didn't know they where that expensive.
As a knife they are pretty useless. No edge and just pointed. At least some double "blood grooves" ;)
I have no clue about the steel but my dad's looks still super polished and Im quite sure he never oiled it. Might be chrome plated which rules out putting an edge on it without exposing the steel to the elements and or flake of the coating.
The dagger is purely ceremonial and there was not even any ceremony where it had to be pulled out. Just a piece of man jewelry.
I wonder which knife company might have made them. I can't even name a single East German one.
 
I wouldn't call it useless if it has a point but no edge. A lot of Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knives were issued with no edge, and they were quite lethal in their designed role of silent killing. However from what I'm aware most Luftwaffe daggers and similar really were mostly just badges of rank or man jewelry. Personally I wouldn't mind if carrying a knife openly became normal again. I'd carry some very lethal man jewelry if it did.
 
Speaking of recent addition knives rather than killing people, are there no repros of the larger to work with for parts?
 
The keris arrived today! It's a dainty little thing. It isn't much shorter than my other one, but the blade is very thin. The fullers actually have holes in them, which they're supposed to. The blade has a little flex to it and the "cheeks" are made of hardened steel.

The pamor pattern on the blade is pretty nice but obviously needs some cleaning up. I'm supposed to soak it in coconut water for a few days for a light cleaning, or lime juice for a heavier one. I'll start with coconut water.
 
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