Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-0910
Bollock Dagger
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
A piece of the house stock, 15.8″ as stated, fitted with wood.
About this piece
Bollock Dagger is a dagger carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of daggers and dirks. It measures 15.8in overall as stated by the forge, and it ships from the house's own walls rather than a drop-shipper's warehouse.
The blade is 1566. Read the steel against the work you mean to give the piece; the forge's own designation is stated here rather than guessed at.
Fittings and furniture: Wood. The fittings are where a piece is honest or is not — a guard, a pommel and a grip that are fitted tight will not shift under work.
Double-edged blades are the pattern most often restricted in carry, even where they are freely lawful to own. Read your province before you carry this one concealed.
Knife laws by state — free, all fifty and the District.
“Narrow, quiet, and two-edged. It asks no permission.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 15.8 inches
- Form
- dagger
- Steel
- 1566
- Fittings
- Wood
$184.99
The Muster — swear $115.01 more and the house bears the carriage. Otherwise it is $16.00 flat, however much steel rides. Walk the halls
Proof of age is required before any steel leaves these walls — always, for every soul, without exception. Read why this gate stands.
Muster a war-ready kit around this pieceTrade old steel toward itNothing is charged. The oath is held until you set your seal to it.
The house will hold it in mind for two days. Come back inside that window and a tenth of the reckoning is forgiven.
The Trial of the Blade
Swing it before you own it. This exact piece — its reach, its weight, its steel — is put in a fitting hand and set against a living foe for three exchanges. What you feel is what you would carry.
The Tale of the Blade
What it is built for
This piece is built for the close quarter — narrow, two-edged, and quick out of the sheath.
The lineage of its steel — 1566
Blade steel. Whatever alloy an edge is cut from, the same three things decide how it behaves: hardness, geometry, and how it is kept. Learn those and no marketing name will fool you again.
Read the chapter on this steel →This blade belongs in the hand of
The close-quarters keeper
One who collects the historical pattern, or wants a companion piece to a longer blade.
Keeping it alive
Dry it, oil it, store it out of the sheath for the long keep, and sharpen it before it is blunt rather than after. The house gives the whole method away for nothing.
The Upkeep Writ — free →The road it walked to this wall
1. Forged at the maker's fire
The piece is made by the forge that makes it — we do not pretend to have hammered it.
2. Received and looked over by the house
It comes into our walls and is checked before it is ever offered.
3. Sealed with the Seal of Provenance
The house records what it knows about the piece — and refuses to claim what it cannot prove.
4. Sent out from the house's own walls
It ships from us, with the record travelling beside it.
These four stations are the house’s standing doctrine for every piece it carries, not a tracking record of this one blade. Where the house cannot prove a claim, it strikes the claim rather than dressing it up.
The voice of the steel
Every piece in this house has one true note, and it is not a recording. Bollock Dagger is 15.8″ of 1566, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 248 hertz — bright and steady, true. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
Every culture that outlawed swords kept daggers, and every culture that kept daggers regretted it. The pattern survives because it hides, and hiding has always been half of any killing.
02The Making
Steel: 1566. The house states what the forge stated and nothing more. We do not embroider metallurgy.
03The Carry
At 15.8 inches this is a belt piece with presence. It will be seen. Most of what a blade this size does in the world is deterrence, and deterrence only works when it is visible.
04The Reckoning
The house makes no claim about what this piece will do in your hand. It only records what its pattern has already done in others'.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Bollock Dagger
What it leaves open
Swung honestly, it keeps you close. No piece covers every yard of ground — that is why no one ever carried only one. Beside it the house would hang something that reaches past the guard before he closes.
The Armorer’s Bench
What it leaves wantingNo one ever carried one blade. The armorer sets down what this piece cannot answer for, and names the steel that can.
The line
Medieval Cloak - GreenSame fittings, other work. It answers for reach held out in front of thee, to meet a man before he arrives.
$74.99the pair — $259.98
The dark
Rosewood Skinner with Leather SheathSame fittings, other work. It answers for something small and quiet, carried where no one looks for it.
$119.99the pair — $304.98
Kindred Steel
All of The Daggers →Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.
The house has written on this
- How to Display a Sword on a Wall Without Ruining ItMost swords are killed by their own display, not by use.
- Medieval Weapons: Every Type, Ranked by What It DidA plain field guide to the arms of the Middle Ages — and which of them you can still own.
- How to Throw a Knife: Beginner's Method That WorksNo spinning tricks. The distance, the grip, the release, and the steel that survives it.
Learn this steel — free, from the house
Forge Wisdom is the house's whole craft, given away. No coin, no seat, no gate.
- What sharpness actually isAngle, apex and burr — why an edge cuts and why it stops.
- Stones, files and machinesWhat to sharpen this edge on, and what will ruin it.
- Geometry, balance and harmonicsWhy two blades of the same weight feel nothing alike in the hand.
- Buying honestlyThe questions that separate a wall-hanger from an heirloom.
Bollock Dagger
$184.99