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2. Gainerie - Wikipedia

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   Gainerie is the art of making sheaths, cases, sheaths for swords, sabres, daggers, along with boxes, wallets, chests, desk mats, upholstery leathers, and other objects. [1] The gainer dyes his leathers himself and sometimes applies gilding with a heated tool. Gainerie workshop - Encyclopédie Diderot et d’Alembert.

3. Scabbard - Wikipedia

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   The metal fitting where the blade enters the leather or metal scabbard is called the throat, which is often part of a larger scabbard mount, or locket, that bears a carrying ring or stud to facilitate wearing the sword. The blade's point in leather scabbards is usually protected by a metal tip, or chape, which, on both leather and metal ...

4. Bladesmith - Wikipedia

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   Bladesmith, Nuremberg, Germany, 1569 Bladesmithing is the art of making knives, swords, daggers and other blades using a forge, hammer, anvil, and other smithing tools. [1] [2] [3] Bladesmiths employ a variety of metalworking techniques similar to those used by blacksmiths, as well as woodworking for knife and sword handles, and often leatherworking for sheaths. [4]

5. Chape - Wikipedia

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   The scabbard "chape" is labelled 10. Scabbard chape from the St Ninian's Isle Treasure Illustration of the Thorsberg chape showing the runic inscriptions on both sides. Chape has had various meanings in English, but the predominant one is a protective fitting at the bottom of a scabbard or sheath for a sword or dagger (10 in the diagram). [1]

6. Sheath knife - Wikipedia

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   A sheath knife is a fixed-bladed knife that fits into a sheath, by tradition usually of leather, now often of other material such as nylon or kevlar. The sheath is used to protect the knife and act as a carrier. Most importantly, the sheath protects the person carrying the knife (e.g. in the pocket or hanging on the belt) from potentially ...

7. Jambiya - Wikipedia

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   A jambiya is constituted of a handle, a blade, and a sheath in which the blade is held. It is made of a certain sort of wood, to hold the blade that is fixed to the waist from underneath with an upward curved sheath. The belt that holds the jambiya is made of tanned leather, or some thick cloth.

8. Rain-guard - Wikipedia

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   Note that the term "rain-guard" is modern, and reflects the hypothesis that the purpose was to protect the sword in the scabbard (c.f. German Regenleder / Dutch Regenleertje "rain-leather"). Oakeshott (1964) uses the term chappe , which may be the historical term, but which is ambiguous as it is merely a French word for "cap" and is also used ...

9. Stiletto - Wikipedia

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   When the target is within range, the blade is quickly opened as part of a continuing underhand thrust into the target's torso. The stiletto switchblade is still produced in Italy and many other countries, and now includes many derivative folding knife designs that incorporate the same basic 'stiletto' or bayonet-style blade profile, including ...