Kami mark ID?

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Trying to ID a CAK from 2012.
https://imgur.com/a/TndkStF

I think I've identified it way back then, but the reference pictures are mostly gone now.
Something like this:

अ • बी •

so... A. Bi. ?
I'm not so good at Devanagari
Thanks

(Edited because I hit sent too early)
 
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Lets see the other side, looks like the kami put his mark on the wrong side. Generally the kami mark is by itself. I don't read devanagari at all but I'm pretty sure that's the shop marking and such.
 
The other side has the writing lengthwise rather than accros.
It has the U.B. initials in honour of Uncle Bill and more devanagari, which I'm almost certain is the shop marking.

https://imgur.com/a/B25O65P

Which means the left side of the blade (first pic, above) would be the kami's initials with his mark below.
That first pic looks like अ . बी . to me so a Kami with initials A. Bi. or close close to it, but I'm nowhere near fluent with devanagari.
 
I think but not sure that they sometimes use "BI" short for "Bishwakarma" so his first name would start with "A" for example ...Anil Bishwarkarma or "Anil the blacksmith" . I dont recognize that marking tho?
 
Is that a lotus flower, a flame (fire)? I'm also having problems using Karda's old links for reference. In general, Imgur images are not showing for me. In fact, a lot of image/links/files seem broken to me. :(
 
I had somewhat moderate success "resurrecting" the pictures from Karda's stickied thread by searching this into google and duckduckgo "kami mark list site:bladeforums.com" (without the quotes).
https://imgur.com/a/CzCjmDi

I'm 99% sure the the kami's devanagari initials on mine are अ • बी • and they look similar to Anil's initials I found on duckduckgo, which tracks.

The mark itself doesn't look too much like Dil's lotus, nor his earlier flower, plus the initials don't match at all.

From the initials, my best guess is mine might be an early work from Anil (I got it in 2012), maybe before he switched to his flag mark?

I can't quite guess what that mark is, maybe crescent moon with rays like the top of Nepal's flag... maybe a rowboat... hmmm.

I'll try and collage what images I managed to salvage from Google's and Duckduckgo's cache and identify them, that'd be a start to reviving some kind of kami mark sticky.
 
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I'm so new at this. Very interesting. After looking at the Kami mark list, I would also think Anil.
 
tormentist said:
I had somewhat moderate success "resurrecting" the pictures from Karda's stickied thread by searching this into google and duckduckgo "kami mark list site:bladeforums.com" (without the quotes).
https://imgur.com/a/CzCjmDi

I'm 99% sure the the kami's devanagari initials on mine are अ • बी • and they look similar to Anil's initials I found on duckduckgo, which tracks.

The mark itself doesn't look too much like Dil's lotus, nor his earlier flower, plus the initials don't match at all.

From the initials, my best guess is mine might be an early work from Anil (I got it in 2012), maybe before he switched to his flag mark?

I can't quite guess what that mark is, maybe crescent moon with rays like the top of Nepal's flag... maybe a rowboat... hmmm.

I'll try and collage what images I managed to salvage from Google's and Duckduckgo's cache and identify them, that'd be a start to reviving some kind of kami mark sticky.
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I can (now) see the mark as being as a crescent moon with rays. Being one of the symbols of the flag, and then Anil using the actual flag (transitioning). This is all very fascinating.
 
XelaXela said:
I can (now) see the mark as being as a crescent moon with rays. Being one of the symbols of the flag, and then Anil using the actual flag (transitioning). This is all very fascinating.
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Yea my best guess was Anil, mostly because the अ. बी. initials just fit and I don't know of another kami with the same initials.
Thing is, I bought this one in July 2012 from HI's yahoo store.
Auntie received it from Nepal a bit later in August 2012, just before sending it my way.
And searching the forums, it seems Anil officially started with HI only in 2013:

Still, I think it might be one of Anil's earlier pieces, before he was an official HI Kami and settled on his flag mark.
He would obviously have already been working in the shop with his dad at the time, and transitioning from this "crescent moon with rays mark" (which is in the top part of the flag) to his current flag mark isn't too far-fetched.
I guess its not impossible it's from someone else sharing the same initials, but I can't remember nor find a Kami who does/did.

I've been using it for the last 10 years and it's still in top shape, not that I have the hubris to imagine myself ever going through a CAK.
(I will break long before that knife does)

Fascinating indeed and a testament to the quality of their work.
 
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