Your wallhanger dagger probably shines just like the day you brought it home, even if you displayed it in the open air, subject to all the high humidity of summer and the ravages of the rest of the seasons. That’s likely because it’s designed to do just that. You couldn’t use it for live practice, […]
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Identifying a Dagger’s Intended Utility by Feature
While all daggers are in practice weapons, there is a lot of variation in their designs, and it’s the blade profile (predominantly) that determines how a given pattern was intended to be used, as well as what its relative advantages were. For instance, some patterns were designed to be thrust, whereas others were more effective […]