Damast dagger #10

This is one of my far best knives ever, it's a damascus dagger! I've wanted it for really long time and not so long ago, there was an opportunity!

(Beside, I'm planing on making "best of" of my knives as soon as I finish uploading them)

So, this is it! This is my damascus steel dagger! The blade itself is long 157 millimeters, wide 35 millimeters and 5 millimeters thick.

It's very symetrical, very precise made. Between the sharp part and the handle, on both sides knife has cutted grooves, which can give support for thumb(if holding that way).

Above, there is part from damascus steel, which has several grooves and is attached to blade with 5 damascus steel pins.

Even further above, there is wooden part(walnut, ofc.), which fits very accurate to upper damascus part. Even in radius like that!

Well, the wooden part is also attached to blade, just this time with 6 brass pins.

Knife sheat is made from 4 millimeters thick leather, it's color is something ebtween bordoux red and brown color, it is very well stiched together, has on top strap to hold knife in and loop for belt.

The knife is massive, it's a really good knife! And sharp too!

Announcement

First I'd like to say, I don't have habbit, to post music on my blog..but I'm doing this for one rare time!



I've finished my degree desertation, I'm just lecturing it and hopefully, I'm having my speech in end of first week in September(6th or 7th). After that, first I'll sleep two days in a row, afford myself short vacations, but then..WHOLE september I'll have time for my hobbies..so expect new blog posts sooner than 1 month!

Jakey.

Lockback damast knife #9

This knife is one of my first I received, it probably has serial number under 10.

The blade is 85 millimeters long and 4 millimeters thick and is shaped somehow as a feather..Or just I see it that way.

To wooden, walnut and damascus combination handle with brass pins, is blade attached with a brass screw from both sides. Wooden part of handle is attached to the middle part with 5 brass pins from each side, while the damascus part with 2 screws M4 from both sides.

Middle part is made from 2 millimeters thick brass plate, which works as spring for lock and is decorated with different shaped grooves all around. On the back, there's also a stainless steel part(which is also decorated), which prevents the blade from turning all around the axis.

Small brass pin attached to blade helps it to open or close.

Knife sheat is made for this knife, it fits perfectly. It's made from 3 millimeters thick black leather, thich has leather strap on back for belt and pin on top, for lock knife safely.

2 kubotans with dagger blades

Here are 2 kubotans I received this week. A friend from USA send them to me, as a gift.

There are two colors, the silver one is from stainless steel, while the black one is from regular steel and is gun blued; blades on both of them are made from stainless steel, are both edged and both razor sharp.

The handle has 15 millimeters in diameter and while it's closed, it's 105 millimeters long. It has rough grooves  on the outside, for much much better grip. If you unscrew the last part of the handle, you get out 60 millimeters long dagger style blade, that can be screwed back to handle, and you get a knife.

On bottom, there's a drilled through hole, that has attached a keychain ring, so it can grab your thumb.

Quite simple, effective and dangerous weapon!

Yugoslavian bayonet M-48

This is old Yugoslavian bayonet from a rifle M-48 I purchased in November, but I completed it last week; the leather I got.

M-48 rifle is actually a identical Yugoslavian copy of German Karabin 98 - They were manufacturing them after World War II., mostly in city Preduzeče(Serbia)...and so these bayonets.

It's made from not so quality steel(although, the bayonet is used for stabbing and slashing, not exactly cutting or ripping), it has rounded groove for the nearly whole lenght of the blade.

Guard has a hole 15 millimeters in diameter drilled through, it's used for attaching the bayonet to the rifle. Same as the groove on the back side of handle, where is located a spring in a button, that keeps the bayonet at it's spot.

Wooden plates are attached to knife with two steel nuts, firstly screwed together, then hammered and filed down. It's quite compact alltogether.

The back of the handle is shaped as most of bayonets, for grip, that is hard to be pulled out of hand -> an eagle's head.

Stamps on knife are two triangles, PREDUZEČE 44 (town, where it was made and factory number) and a serial number - 65642.

Scabbard is made from two parts, metal and leather part: Metal scabbard is long 270 millimeters and 40 millimeters wide at it's widest point. It has a spring in it, to prevent the bayonet from falling out.
The leather part is attached onto scabbard through a small hole, that hardly fits to a metal grip. On top of it, it has belt for tighting the blade into scabbard and a loop for belt.

All metal parts are blued, same as scabbard.

Leather is black/dark grey colout and is double stiched.