Funny little knife with experimental tip

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Hello all, here's a little knife that's a test subject for a of sword tip (kissaki) that will get used on some full-sized futuristic ninja swords. By angling the kissaki way back on the spine, the blade can have a blunt tip that still has a nice angle for piercing. A bit odd, but I like it!

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After lots of annoying hand-sanding that just didn't quite turn out right, it ended up getting sandblasted with fine media to smooth off the sanding marks, after these photos were snapped. I find it pretty frustrating to work on a blade this small, yet try to impart it with the elements of a sword blade, and am pretty excited to shape a big sword with this type of kissaki.
 
Other than the novel kissaki, the type of knife it resembles most is the Japanese kaiken, or kwaiken.

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Kaiken (dagger) - Wikipedia

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It was once carried by men and women of the samurai class in Japan. It was useful for self-defense in indoor spaces where the long blade katana and intermediate sword wakizashi were inconvenient. Women carried them in their kimono either in a pocket-like space (futokoro) or in the sleeve pouch (tamoto)[2] for self-defense and for ritual suicide by slashing the veins in the left side of the neck.[3][4] When a samurai woman married, she was expected to carry a kaiken with her when she moved in with her husband.[5]

In modern Japan, a kaiken is worn as a traditional accessory for formal kimono, such as a furisode, uchikake and a shiromuku, tucked into their obi.
 
it has a nice practical look to it. Overall weapony shape, but a knife a guy could use around the homestead or on the job, especially where working with wood is a regular thing.
I think it's a super neat lil knife, Sam:thumbsup:
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Lorien said:
it has a nice practical look to it. Overall weapony shape, but a knife a guy could use around the homestead or on the job, especially where working with wood is a regular thing.
I think it's a super neat lil knife, Sam:thumbsup:
:cool:
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Thanks Lorien 😁

elasmonut said:
Bit like a single edged "Besh wedge" tip
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It is a bit like that. One of the first daggers I made accidentally had a Besh wedge tip for a moment. I hadn’t made the tip fully pointy yet, and ground the “right hand” bevels more than the left ones, and voila! There it was. Ended up making it a normal dagger after, though. I think the Besh-type point is damn cool.
 
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