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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: PR, USA
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Hi,
There are lots of spanish terms for the small armas blancas. The facon tends to be a larger, more brutish type of field blade. Cuchillo is a generic term, that can be applied to all, even to cooking/eating utensils. A daga/dagger suggest a more elaborate affair, more knightly and developed, elegant even, and usually sporting a developed cross guard. They are highly personalized. A puñal is virtually any fighting blade that can be held in a fist, not refined, its crossguard being either very small or absent. The navajas and cuchillas (feminine terms) apply only to folding knives, albeit they can be of herculean dimensions. Me'self, I highly dislike the traditional spanish knives in general. like the Albacetes. Their brute shape seems to infer a decidedly ruffianish nature. OTOH, I find the shape of the old swiss daggers extremely attractive. I guess that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder...: ) Best Manolo Quote:
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