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…
Assessing a Dagger by Blade Profile
Daggers, broadly speaking, constitute a broad class of bladed tools that are primarily intended as weapons, for defensive applications. Unlike many other bladed tools, the utility of a dagger is…
4 Common Dagger Patterns, Demystified
Daggers have long been carried not only as sidearms, but as concealed weapons, and plainly as tools for utilitarian use in the field, for millennia. Few other tools, besides a…
Can a Dagger Be a Functional Tool?
Many daggers are highly specialized weapons, as in the case of the stiletto, which is designed for penetration, even for splitting mail rings, or in the case of the main…