Warborn Blades
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House code LW-0918
Irish 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, 19.8″ as stated, fitted with 8 1/2".
About this piece
Irish Dagger is a dagger carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of daggers and dirks. It measures 19.8in 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 5160. Carbon and tool steels take a finer edge and take it faster, and they will rust if left wet. Wipe the blade dry and keep a film of oil on it and it will outlast you.
Fittings and furniture: 8 1/2". 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
- 19.8 inches
- Form
- dagger
- Steel
- 5160
- Fittings
- 8 1/2"
$284.99
The Muster — swear $15.01 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 — 5160
High-carbon steel. The old, honest choice. It takes a keener edge than stainless and holds it under work, but it will rust if it is left wet. Oil it, and it will outlive you.
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. Irish Dagger is 19.8″ of 5160, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 202 hertz — deep 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
Carbon steel — 5160. It will take an edge finer than any stainless and hold it through work that would roll a lesser blade. It will also rust if you look at it wrong. Carbon is a bargain: the house gives you the better edge and you give it your attention. Oil it, dry it, and it will outlive you.
03The Carry
At 19.8 inches this sits between the arm and the field — too long to be discreet, too short to need both hands. It is the awkward, dangerous middle that historically belonged to men on horseback and men in doorways.
04The Reckoning
Steel keeps no loyalty. It does what the arm does. The ledger ends where your part of it begins.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Irish 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.
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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
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The dark
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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.
Irish Dagger
$284.99