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Post by takitam on Aug 29, 2023 0:43:47 GMT
I have been recently charmed by these two types of weapons. I like the narrow triangular shape of bronze age daggers and narrower early Pugios. Looking on KoA, I can generally only see cheap and heavy Deepeka products. Is there anyone who makes decently historically accurate and good quality reproductions nowadays? It's a new area of interest for me and I do not have enough knowledge about these weapons yet. I simply enjoy the aesthetic a lot and am thinking about getting an interesting historical dagger.
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Post by larason2 on Aug 29, 2023 4:04:48 GMT
There aren't that many. There's the windlass, the deepeka, and the denix. The Denix isn't carbon steel, but it's quite nice. Deepeeka actually makes reasonably good replicas of the gladius, and I think also the pugio. Some were unreasonably heavy, even at the time, especially if they were more wrought iron than steel. The Romans had a somewhat early sort of pattern welded blade, and you can't really buy those short of getting a smith to make one.
For Bronze there's more options, though what you tend to get are bronze age designs, and not all of them use the 10-12% bronze that's authentic Bronze age. Some are quite similar to the pugio though. There's the two forges in Ukraine that sell on Etsy like Viking Bronze, and a few other Etsy makers if those convince you!
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Post by takitam on Sept 2, 2023 14:18:59 GMT
All right, thank you. It seems like there really is not much interest in such daggers. When going custom for a piece than no one is interested in is the only way, there is really no way at all, as the research is lacking.
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