Grosses Messer with scabbard

Grosses Messer with scabbard

For convenience and safety, the Grosse Messer comes with a strong, handsome scabbard crafted from wood and covered in black leather. It is reinforced with a steel chape and a steel throat that have been blued to match the guard and pommel.

• Blade material: 1060 high carbon steel
• Overall length: approx. 107.3cm
• Handle length: approx. 26cm
• Blade length: approx. 81.3cm
• Blade thickness: approx. 5.1mm
• Weight: approx. 1814 g
• Including leather scabbard with blued steel fittings

Known throughout Germany as the 'Big Knife', the Grosse Messer (also spelled Grosses Messer or Grossmesser) hails from central and northern Europe where, in far off days of old, noblemen and peasants alike relied on it to protect hearth and home from the ravages of brigands, cutthroats, outlaws and other assorted characters of ill repute.

Due to its stout, wide blade and generously sized handle, it could be wielded in one or both hands and was capable of shearing through chain mail or cutting a man in half with a single strike.