Originally Posted by
NewEnglander
Does anyone have any experience with
THIS dirk?
I do. Still have one in a drawer somewhere, having bought it out of curiosity. I consider it, as I do a lot of Victorian and later period dirks, as more of a DLO or Dirk-Like Object, though for different reasons. In the case of this one, the handle shape/style doesn't (quite) fit any historical pattern I've ever seen and the grip is also too long, proportionally speaking. The steel "haunches" do closely approximate the look of the cast-brass ones on some historic dirks.
That said, however, it does at least look more like a Scottish dirk than it looks like anything else, and it has the virtue of at least being a decently functional weapon. (Which, for me, is a necessary though not sufficient condition for something to be properly considered a dirk.) If I didn't already own the dirks I do, I wouldn't feel at all bad about being seen in public with that one; and in fact I've seen increasing numbers of that model over the past couple of years on kilted hips at Scottish events (Highland Games, etc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Last edited by Dale Seago; 19th November 10 at 10:15 PM.
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