06-17-2025, 09:14
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
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Spartan Harsey Dagger
This is one of the concept drawings I did, in pencil, for the Spartan Harsey Dagger project.
My work making daggers started when Al Mar introduced me to Col. Rex Applegate in 1984.
Al Mar was a Green Beret.
Col. Rex Applegate was in the OSS in WW2 and worked with both Fairbairn and Sykes,
The Spartan guys are both retired Green Berets.
The Spartan Harsey Dagger is a result of all this.
Spartan does an amazing job in making it.
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06-17-2025, 11:01
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Cool!
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06-17-2025, 13:22
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Amazing design!
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06-17-2025, 14:05
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I'll take one. 
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06-18-2025, 02:54
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I preordered and received mine the day they became commercially available. I do wish they were serial numbered though.
Great job on this one Bill!
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06-18-2025, 04:07
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That design drawing is super cool. Frame worthy.
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06-18-2025, 08:35
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Absolutely Beautiful.
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06-18-2025, 22:05
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Damn, Bill.
That drawing is beautiful.
I wanna be like you when I grow up.
TR
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06-22-2025, 12:11
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As always Bill your designs are beautiful and flawless. A congratulations to you on being inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame.
Your designs and work have influenced me and maybe one of these days I'll post some pics on here of my work.
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06-27-2025, 09:08
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sfshooter
As always Bill your designs are beautiful and flawless. A congratulations to you on being inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame.
Your designs and work have influenced me and maybe one of these days I'll post some pics on here of my work.
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Thank you for your kind words.
I would love to see your work too.
All the best,
Bill
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06-27-2025, 09:44
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The Spartan Harsy dagger is the result of some years of work.
I was introduced to Col. Rex Applegate (OSS) by Al Mar in 1984 and started making daggers for Applegate right away, doing all the hand grinding, heat treating and finishing here by myself over a period of 14 years.
Applegate worked with both William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes in WW2, some of you may have heard of the Fairbairn Sykes Commando Dagger.
They trained men for what is now politey called clandestine oerations.
The FS Dagger was designed for a very specific function and remains, rightfull so, a legendary icon.
The Applegate Dagger, came about after WW2 was designed to overcome a couple small things noted in after action reports from the FS Daggers use. One was that the FS Dagger had a perfectly round handle that provided no tactile reference or control when the knife was drawn and when used.
The flat side of the blade didn't cut very well, as illustrated in some action reports.
This was a small problem.
In defense of the FS Commando Daggers, they were produced in England with a war being fought on their doorstep and had to produce as many knives possible and fast, the round handle turned on a lathe. was part of this manufacturing.
Britain did not have the luxury of time.
The Fairbairn Sykes Commando Dagger rightfully earned it's place in history.
To be continued.
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