Steingass Bastion Dagger

TK Steingass

TK Steingass

Knifemaker - Buckeye
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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Awhile ago Les Robertson asked me to design a dagger that dealt with tip breakage. This is what I came up with. The armor piercing tip is built up and convex ground - from what I understand, the Samurai carried a short belt knife with this type tip for in close and personal fighting to pierce armor. I wanted to make a pure fighting dagger, so I put rubber horse stall mat scales. The wetter it gets, the grippier.

Neutral balance is just behind the guard - this is achieved by grinding the thickness of the skull crusher rear bolsters. Lash points are presented in the double guard, flared handle pins and skull crusher. The CPM D-2 dagger is finished to 400 grit then superfine scothbrite belt. It comes with a quiet release high ride leather sheath. Some of you are going to love this fighting dagger, some of you will hate it because of the scales. For those of you that don't care for the horse stall mat scales, it can be ordered with black or green canvas micarta scales/red liners.

Thanks for viewing my work and all comments are welcome- good comments here, bad comments may be directly sent to Les Robertson:D:D:D


3/16" CPM D-2 Stock
HT to Rc 60-61
12 1/4' OAL
7" Blade length
Convex tip
Rubber Scales
Tapered tang
416 SS furniture
Pinned/soldered guard
Handle/guard lash points
8-10 oz leather sheath

 
Nice. I like the blade shape, the grind, the handle shape, the fit and finish . . . Really, almost everything about it. I especially like your solution to the broken tip issue. I think the handle material is appropriate, but I would really like to hold it in hand to form a more firm opinion.
 
That is one of the nicest daggers I've seen on this forum. I'm guessing that tip was not easy to make.
 
gregorio said:
That is one of the nicest daggers I've seen on this forum. I'm guessing that tip was not easy to make.
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Thanks Greg - the grinds are killer difficult, but worth it.
 
The Virginian said:
Nice. I like the blade shape, the grind, the handle shape, the fit and finish . . . Really, almost everything about it. I especially like your solution to the broken tip issue. I think the handle material is appropriate, but I would really like to hold it in hand to form a more firm opinion.
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Thank you sir - I can see why you'd like to hold it in hand....this handle material is very popular with my Canadian Moose Hunter clients.
 
Alicia LeCroix said:
You make some extremely impressive daggers Mr Steingass and i love that all of your daggers are pretty much users :)
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Thanks for your comment Alicia - I try my best to make the best user out there :)
 
I like the dagger, especially the grinds and even more especially the tip treatment.
Interesting choice for a Dagger handle material, the material does grip well. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
Kevin Jones said:
I like the dagger, especially the grinds and even more especially the tip treatment.
Interesting choice for a Dagger handle material, the material does grip well. :thumbup::thumbup:
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Kevin: Glad you like it - I chose the handle material to meet it's main use as a fighter.
 
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