Dagger (knife #2)

all metal blade

hammered metal handle and scabbard

Made in 3 days while waiting for a silicone slip up to blow over. Cold cast with aluminum powder, weathered with acrylic, and handle wrapped with fur and faux leather. Get your kit here www.impactcustoms.com/skyrim-nordic-dagger.html

A three day project. Blueprints made in adobe photoshop.

Shaft Grave V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae. 1600-1500 BC.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

Bronze dagger with inlaid decoration. The thin gold and silver decorative sheets are held in place on the bronze blad using a gold, silver, bronze alloy. It has a gold revetment with repoussé lilies on the hilt and shoulders.

Once part of a large cemetery outside the acropolis walls, Grave Circle A was discovered within the Mycenaean citadel by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 under the supervision of the Greek Ephor of Antiquities Panagiotis Stamatakis.

The tombs in Grave Circle A contained a total of nineteen burials: nine males, eight females and two infants. With the exception of Grave II, which contained a single burial, all of the other graves contained between two and five inhumations.

The amazing wealth of the grave gifts reveals both the high social rank and the martial spirit of the deceased: gold jewelry and vases, a large number of decorated swords and other bronze objects, and artefacts made of imported materials, such as amber, lapis lazuli, faience and ostrich eggs. All of these, together with a small but characteristic group of pottery vessels, confirm Mycenae's importance during this period, and justify Homer's designation of Mycenae as 'rich in gold.'

Shaft Grave V contained three male burials. Two of the deceased wore gold death-masks, one of which is known as the "Mask of Agamemnon". The grave gifts included gold breastplates, elaborate bronze swords and daggers, gold and silver vessels, an ostrich egg rhyton and a wooden pyxis. There was less gold jewelry that in the female graves, but a great number of amber beads.

To bring out the shine, I went over the dagger lightly with 0000 steel wool.

Handle wraps were hot glued on. The fur feels real nice.

A gift from a close friend, made by a local smith he knows. It's a rondel dagger with a triangular section blade, made in damascened (pattern welded) steel.

Handmade Shadow dagger, crafted in the Bosmer style as seen in the Elder Scrolls Online.

Assembly! Two halves were held together with plumber's putty.

Rockburn

I tied the Clove & Dagger lanyard following the pattern shared by Facebook friend Dman Mcq. More info in my blog post: stormdrane.blogspot.com/2013/06/clove-dagger-lanyard.html

masab tank, November 2013

iPhone X Testing

Second pull from the mold successful.

First sanding pass.

Claying the mold. This step sucks.

an edited version from RAW

Second layer of spot putty filling.

A needle file was used to get rid of tiny air bubbles in the dagger.

Rather than sanding (since it's a cold cast) the mold flash was trimmed with an exacto knife.

Lovely sunset colours sealed under Kato sauce ...

Dagger (knife #2)

The beveled area was sprayed with textured metallic paint and the filigrees were cut out of really thin styrene and super glued on.

I have been wanting to see this buck for some time and finally got to see him a few times today. Unfortunately, in the last day or so, he has broken off one of his double brow tines. That tine was longer than the one next to it. He has some of the most gorgeous eyes I have seen on a deer.

TF-102A Delta Dagger 54-1366 at Pima

I tied the Clove & Dagger lanyard following the pattern shared by Facebook friend Dman Mcq. More info in my blog post: stormdrane.blogspot.com/2013/06/clove-dagger-lanyard.html

“There's daggers in men's smiles”

*William Shakespeare*

Filling in the edges with bondo gold.

omg he hates you so much.

First layer of spot putty filling.

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