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Dino in Reno

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I have the biggest (most $) knife I have ever ordered or bought on it's way to me.
Wootz steel smelted, forged, engraved, and sharpened by the maker.
Bone for the slabs, silver, shell, and abalone for the ears and my SCA arms.
Ebony and silver for the sheath.
Whatcha think?
 

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Ain't that purty. I found something similar, minus the heraldry, in a palace in Iraq. Unfortunately, our commander appropriated it for himself.
 
C.R.R., That might have been a Yatagan. A Turkish style of blade, they range from 30" swords to 6" daggers. There is a chance the eared dagger is a cousin of that type of knife.
On the other hand you never know what will show up where. I had a local bring in a pistol to be worked on when I was at a remote duty station in Alaska in '76. I did part replacement type gunsmithing for the local gun and ammo guy. The pistol was an all matching Luger artillery model with matching number magazine. He used it for "Mercy" shots on wounded game. His grandfather brought it back from WWI. Yep #1.

If it does not break any rules, the maker of my dagger is Dmitry Malakhov. His website is:
http://www0.smig.net/users/dmitry/galleryindex2.html

Dino in Reno
 
Mr. Malakhov does beautiful work. I bet it was cool getting to work on something with a history like that Luger. In the World Wars it seemed to be ok to bring stuff like that pistol home with you, but now "looting" isn't allowed. Unless you're a Lt. Colonel, in which case it's not looting, but "preserving a piece of Iraqi heritage" or some such.
 
This is the second knife I have from him (the first was made to be a gift). He makes his own steel. Like from dirt. Ok, from ore. A nice guy to do business with, he will do what he says for the price quoted. I wish I could find a doc who will do that :-).
Yep, the best guide to the military I read was Catch 22. It helped me...

Dino in Reno, USAF 1972-1976
 
Sweet piece of dangerous art, Dino, very nice:thumbup:

You and yours have a great holiday season and an intoxicated 12th Night:D
Man we got 3' of snow, a month early for my honey do list:eek:

Be Well and be fed as well as a Hobbit

Mark
 
Dmitry does nice work. The snake looks perfect, better than the drawings I sent him.
Last 12th Night it was new court clothing, now a dagger to go with them. The father of my Godson won Coronet, so I'm on the Court. 14th century. I'm in at 1399 and a half :-)
Almost no snow yet here... Not good for the water next year.
My best to you and yours in the holiday season.
 
I was in the AF at that time as well, Dino. AFSC, duty station 75-76?
I was 903X0 Medical X-Ray, Lackland, Shepphard, USAF Academy during that time frame.
Mark
 
Three years at Travis AFB, then one last year remote in Alaska, the site name withheld in case I tell stories about what a Shirty time it was. Like why one of the locals was placed "off limits". Yep a person, not a place... :-)
He he, the biggest skate job in the A.F. , 74150, Special Services aka MWR now.

Dino in Reno
 
Dino in Reno said:
Dmitry does nice work. The snake looks perfect, better than the drawings I sent him.
Last 12th Night it was new court clothing, now a dagger to go with them. The father of my Godson won Coronet, so I'm on the Court. 14th century. I'm in at 1399 and a half :-)
Almost no snow yet here... Not good for the water next year.
My best to you and yours in the holiday season.
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Careful, Good Sir Knight:), if you keep hanging around at Court they might try and turn you into a politician:D

For quite a few years, we hadn't really much snow until after Yule, yet the last 2 years we got hammered by that brutal northern air in the jet stream. We're right on the lake and the levels have been low. My youngest daughter has a snorkeling obsession and she keeps track of the small fish and there have been very big schools lately:thumbup:
She's also been my Drill Instructor as I have been on a weight loss crusade all year,(268 to 195...yay), but man, when I just want to sit around and drink beer and eat bar-b-q she's doesn't relent.

Which brings me to my next point...

We live roughly between 2 universities, 30 miles each way from home. I used to only go to fighting practice at the southern one, now that our oldest is attending the northern one, I split my time between the two, so we can hang out,( funny as heck, we go to the campus pizzeria and her friends wonder if her dad got attacked because I have an ice pack on my arm, leg, hand, pick a spot:) ).
Dino, did you notice they are growing heavy fighters from HUGE genetic stock nowadays:eek:
I mean holy moley, these behemoths can hit...and hard,(or is I getting brittle)...:o, and I never realized how much my extra pork cushioned good blows.

Any way that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Mark
 
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"Dino, did you notice they are growing heavy fighters from HUGE genetic stock nowadays. I mean holy moley, these behemoths can hit...and hard,(or is I getting brittle)..., and I never realized how much my extra pork cushioned good blows.

Any way that's my story and I'm stickin' to it."

He he, yep some of those boys be BIG. The West has has a tradition of "firm" hitting. I like it because it is binary for me, easy to know if it's good or light. But because I'm a card carrying wimp, I have had lots of plate from my first armor on...

268 to 195... CONGRATULATIONS!
I need to drop 20 lbs of fat and add 5 of muscle and end up in the 185-190 range. I'll still be 25 lbs overweight according to the charts, but I can't figure where they get the weights for those from.

Dino in Reno
 
VIVAT! VIVAT! VIVAT!

A raised Birch Jack to celebrate your Godsons Father Winning the Coronet:thumbup:

From This Waywatchers Cozy Red Brick Keep

Mark
 

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