#rondel dagger

[we-are-knight]

Raubritter, by Tomasz Ryger

[wearemercs]

City guard by nemui

[deadbrainart]

Been doing more 3D modeling lately, not really 100% effort but it lets me learn Blender a lot.

[cutecuttlefish]

The sword of the day is the rondel dagger.

This was a short, stiff-bladed dagger that saw use in the late European Medieval period. The name comes from the shape of the pommel and guard, which were both disks. Though sharpened, it was exclusively designed for stabbing, a function facilitated by its relatively stiff blade. The rondel dagger saw extensive use as a sidearm among European knights, able to puncture through the weak points of the advanced plate armor in use at the time, like joints, thinner plates, and gaps.

[primordialfireforge]

Triangle rondel coming up nicely. Now just need to wait for the oil to dry so I can finish this one and add to my Etsy.

[wearefighter]

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[chainymail]

love how solid, unglamorous, utilitarian, and brutalist the rondel dagger is in the wider realm of daggers. Flat top because you need something to punch while you hammer the blade through steel. Rarely bears a sharpened edge because this is a weapon meant to puncture and wedge through gaps. It’s a basically a dressed-up railroad nail that rips through chain mail like cotton. It’s most useful in close combat when swords become cumbersome and a wrestling match needs to end in blood. We don’t need to use the term phallic okay cut to the chase that thing is a cock.

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[knightwithakay]

belated, but I really love my club

[kultofathena]

Tod Cutler – 14th Century Effigy Rondel Dagger

Mid to late 14thC Rondel dagger. Featuring a flower shaped pommel and disc guard in bronze with a fluted wooden grip. A very strong double sided, diamond section blade. This type of ‘gentle’ motif of a flower was typical of knights of the 13th and 14th C. You can see motifs and daggers like this on effigy’s and artwork throughout the period. Later rondel daggers had a top ‘disc’ style guard as well but early ones had a more normal shaped dagger pommel as seen here. The unsharpened blade is crafted from EN45 high carbon steel and the guard is a composite of bronze and wood; the pommel is cast from matching bronze and the blade is peened over the pommel to complete the dagger. The grip is polished wood.

As well as the dagger being typical of the period it comes with a very distinctive ‘cupped’ leather sheath which has been shaped around the bottom rondel with a brass shaped shape with fluting and a heart motif cut out.

[bestparacordbeads]

World's Most Captivating Daggers

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[elysianaut]

Swordtember 23

19. - Mask

A small sword, pierced through the brow of a metal mask. The Death Mask Rondel.

[blue-hi]

no thoughts head empty JUST landesknecht

[petermorwood]

Reblogging this one again after agreeing wholeheartedly last time with the impassioned video complaint about armour being represented as ineffective, which it most certainly wasn't (or why bother?)

Also, re. that comment about Game of Thrones showing Mormont's armour working properly in an early ep, and cliché not working in a later one. A show as casual about showing graphic violence could have shown how to defeat an opponent in full plate, though IIRC Mormont wore nothing as complete.

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Side-rant: It would have been hard to make out regardless - and still is, the clip's on Youtube - because it happened during that battle scene with the crap minimal light.

I still haven't forgotten what I think was the lighting cameraman responding to criticism of "Too dark to see anything" with "Your TVs Were Badly Tuned". Well, bub, my TV was just fine with the programmes before, the programmes after, and the other scenes in that very GoT episode. The ones that weren't incompetently lit...

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So how to discomfit a plate-armoured man? First, use weapons designed to attack the armour, not the man. Impact weapons like maces and warhammers work...

...because bones break, joints separate and brains concuss even without getting through the metal.

Or use polearms such as halberds, bills, etc., again, attacking the armour as much as the man, and at a longer, potentially safer distance.

Though don't bet on that, because a man in well-fitted plate is, after a lifetime of getting used to moving in it, scary fast - and a gauntlet-punch even with no weapon in it will spoil any number of days.

They were often fitted with knuckle-spikes called "gadlings" for that very purpose.

Finally, dog-pile him with several attackers (expect to lose a couple) so that at least one has a chance to use a dagger on unarmoured or weakly armoured places.

Raise the visor then go for eyes, face or throat (didn't someone get a dagger in the eye in another early GoT ep?) Reduce the graphic visuals by keeping the visor down with a blade shoved through one eye-slot, while the actor's response shows that this Was Not Fun.

Go between the legs at the groin (always good for a knee-clench and Oooh! from the male audience) or inner upper thighs, where opened femoral arteries will bleed out in a matter of minutes.

Go through the armpits - they're usually protected by mail, but full body weight behind the upper rondel of one of these...

...should get through, next stop trachea or lungs, aorta or heart.

NB - The ballpoint pen included for scale shows how big medieval daggers were, with many even bigger - which should also make it clear why nobody ate their dinner using one. They had proper small knives for that, also spoons, picks, eventually forks and always fingers (with napkins and finger-bowls to keep them clean).

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Why reblog so soon?

Well, it's an articulate bitching session about a stupidity which vexes me, also these tags (though not about armour) made me chuckle and need seen, because they too are oh so right.

#he's right

#what drives me the craziest is unstripped pens and showing people writing on paper and parchment as if it's cheap

#WHERE ARE ALL THE WAX TABLETS

#also incorrect storage of books (eg early medieval type setting but the books are upright in shelves--WRONGO)

#showing monks writing and no penknife to be seen

#incorrectly dressed monks and nuns

[bethrnoora]

it's anachronistic fantasy bullshit, so i get to choose what kind of fun and special weapons the characters are carrying around

[cutecuttlefish]

The sword of the day is the stiletto.

The stiletto is an Italian renaissance-era dagger with a long, slender profile and a needle-like point. It is a development on the rondel dagger, and initially served a very similar purpose; a backup weapon to pierce through gaps in armor while in extremely close quarters combat. It was also developed from a second weapon, called a misericorde, used to deliver mercy kills to downed knights through their heavy armor. The narrow blade could penetrate through chain mail at the armpit to reach the heart, or even stab through the eye slits of a helmet to kill quickly via brain injury. Later, the stiletto was adopted as an assassin’s weapon, easily concealed and able to pierce through heavy leather and fabric clothing. The strikingly narrow blade is so iconic that it remains a name for many different kinds of long, narrow features, like extremely thin high heeled shoes.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

waiter! oh waiter! another helping of transgender elf spit, if you please?

[a beautiful elf woman sidles over to me, tilts my chin up with her hand, and rams a rondel dagger through the base of my skull, killing me instantly]