How To Make a Fighting Dagger Out of an Old Steel File

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Today we're making a fighting dagger with a stacked leather handle. This one borrows from many different styles and the inspiration is drawn largely from several daggers made by Boker in Germany and the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting dagger variants.

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