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Bee knife. Handle is carved from composite amber with bronze wire inlay. blade is an elegant flame blade. Hilt is a realistic honey bee with the pommel as a hive.

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Loooove this!

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Dervish Knives - Ursa Major

Surgical tools decorated w/gold overlay. Iran, 19th century. Courtesy of The Benaki Museum, Athens

Bhutanese Dagger

The dagger features mounts of embossed, chased and pierced silver with Buddhist motifs, a grip with leather and silver wire wrap and a blade of layered Damascus steel.

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when kim chi actually got the theme right and looks better than 99% of the celebrities attending the met gala 

(photos by Eli Rezkallah) 

Afghanistan Pulouar Horseman’s Sword

This Pulouar (or pulwar) was most likely made for a horseman. The blade is inlaid with brass wire, the copper dot pattern is drilled through the blade.

Flamberge Sword

Two-handed sword from southern Germany, dated late 16th century. The sword features a blackened iron hilt with a large pommel and a tapered neck. The square-shaped quillons are bent with rolled ends being completed by two pairs of lateral trim elements. The guard has shows lily-shaped inserts. The wooden grip is covered in leather as well as the long ricasso.

“Sirius Knight” (2004); “Arcturus” (2004); “Perseus” (2004) by Jose C. de Braga

(from: Art and Design in Custom Fixed-Blade Knives; Dr. David Darom; Chartwell Books, 2007. - ISBN 13: 9780785822684)

Eva Green as Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine

*bites pencil in half*

Gosh…

But also “Gauntlet?”

Straight Razor Ruler - Joshua M. Smith

Thunderbolt

There’s a point where I’m glad someone made one but I am also sad that someone decided to make one. 

That looks fuckin brutal, good luck stitching that up.

If you get stabbed with that, ur just fucked. That’s what the doctors gonna say when u get to the hospital: “I’m sorry Jeremy. You’re fucked.”

A rare dagger for esoteric rituals, dating: mid-19th Century, provenance: France

Schiavona with silver decorations

The sword has a straight, single (and false) edged blade, marked “GIESU MARIA / PENSA EPFA”, and provided with a double line at the back. The iron hilt is completed with a basket-form entirely decorated with silver tarsia geometrical motifs, thumb ring, curved rear quillon, brass pommel and ultimately a wooden grip with fish-skin covering.

A beautifully aggressive monster from Anders Högström. Wicked recurve but you know it pierces like a mutherfucker.

Curved and recurved blades are graceful things when the proportions are right (though odd-looking when they’re not) and this one’s a particularly elegant example. I’m visualising it scaled up to sword size with tweaks to get those proportions right, and I’m liking what my mind’s eye can seen.

An elegant weapon, for a more civilised age…

The tempering line* - a lot easier to do (for something not easy in any case) on a single-edged blade - really adds to the look of this blade, and most of all (for me, anyway) it’s functional, not one of those daft “art knives” with so many hooks and spikes that they’re dangerous for even the owner to touch.

(*On a Japanese (-influenced) blade the line is the hamon and the actual hardened edge the yakiba. Not the “yakisoba”, as someone at a con kept calling it… Oops.)