Forged with folded Damascus steel, which is a mixture of 1045 soft steel, 1060 high carbon steel, manganese spring steel and many more smaller portions of other steels. This mixture is then folded thirteen times to remove impurities, creating over many hundreds of individual steel layers, finally producing arguably the best knife-making steel available, along with a unique feather-grain pattern, a technique renowned for smithing the finest fighting knife blades.
Beautifully finished with a dark, exotic, Ebony hardwood handle & scabbard, and intricately illustrated brass fittings, this traditional Chinese dagger is not only a collectable masterpiece, but also a formidable, balanced and versatile cutting & thrusting, straight blade knife.
Key Features:
- Folded Damascus knife blade – renowned blade characteristics, including a razor sharp cutting edge with excellent natural blade resilience & elasticity.
- Double edge dagger blade – perfectly balanced blade with efficient thrusting penetration.
- Straight knife blade – versatile cutting and thrusting weapon.
- Sacred dagger – decorative dagger, with high ceremonial value.
- Fully functional and battle ready, sharp dagger.
Damascus Dagger Specifications:
- Overall dagger length: 37cm.
- Handle length: 12cm.
- Knife blade length: 21cm.
- Width of blade: 3.4cm (at widest point).
- Thickness of blade: 0.7cm (at thickest point).
- Blade material: Folded Damascus steel knife blade – feather grain pattern.
- Hardness: 60HRC.
- Dagger handle material: Ebony hardwood.
- Knife sheath material: Ebony hardwood.
- Knife & scabbard fittings material: Brass.
- Tang: Full tang dagger.
- Weight: 0.3kg (knife weight only).
- Item: Sheathed dagger.