This stage combat worthy parrying dagger was created as a class project to explore the usage of steel. It is based on an Italian parrying dagger image pulled from the Met’s website and scaled up to match my hand.

I began with a purchased stage combat dagger blade and used a grinder to shape it into the curves. The head block was drilled and hand filed to fit the tang before having the hand-carved quillons attached with a MIG Welder. These quillons were then bent with an oxyacetylene torch and polished. The grip was a lathed, shaped, and drilled out dowel piece coated in leather. Braided wire wrapping was then applied, attached, and followed up with two handmade turks head knots. The pommel was a stock piece of steel drilled and threaded before being shaped with rough grinding and hand filing. The button was a dot of welding hand filed into the proper shape.