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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Nasty again.
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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is available! Price is $250 ea (shipped within CONUS).
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Are you trying to figure out what characters on the handle? Although I don't understand Japanese, do you mind I make a guess?
The characters from top to bottom 剑圣宫本武藏送 mean
剑--sword; 圣--sage or wise man; 宫本武藏--Japanese name of a person; 送--give as a present.
Well, you can tell the first character here looks different from the one on the handle. In fact, they are the same. The first charactor I wrote here is simplified chinese charactor of "sword" shown on the handle.
Maybe I am wrong. This is just for your reference.
The characters from top to bottom 剑圣宫本武藏送 mean
剑--sword; 圣--sage or wise man; 宫本武藏--Japanese name of a person; 送--give as a present.
Well, you can tell the first character here looks different from the one on the handle. In fact, they are the same. The first charactor I wrote here is simplified chinese charactor of "sword" shown on the handle.
Maybe I am wrong. This is just for your reference.
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yeah, maybe it is Kensei - "sword saint" I just cant tell. I think you're right though.
Hell, I dont speak Englis that well....
Hell, I dont speak Englis that well....
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BTT - I changed the picture in the first post so you can see more knives.
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Maybe not quite the same but similar for 16.5 bux.
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=51165&cat=1,51222
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=51165&cat=1,51222
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" have ordered kukri farm tools, antique nails that resemble shuriken"
Yes, for instance, the tent stakes I sent ya!
The knife with the flipper back is called a slipjoint, and is also an ancient viking style of folder (they traded with the asians, who thought the hairy vikings were dog and man combined). they prolly copied the asian idea of the knife, which is prolly an old Chinese knife style.
Yes, for instance, the tent stakes I sent ya!
The knife with the flipper back is called a slipjoint, and is also an ancient viking style of folder (they traded with the asians, who thought the hairy vikings were dog and man combined). they prolly copied the asian idea of the knife, which is prolly an old Chinese knife style.
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Bruise, Thanks for the link to a US source for an interesting knife!
Red Flower's analysis of the writing on the knife brings up an interesting point, related to the "Can This Destroy America" thread in which the starting essay has a thesis that multilingual societies destroy themselves.
China has been multilingual for millennia. However, a few thousand years ago the first Qin (?) Emperor, the Emperor in the movie Hero, unified the written language. (Largely by killing everyone who disagreed with him. He buried lots of scholars alive, etc. ) Since the uniform character set was ideographic and not based on the pronunciation of words, people of all dialects could read and write it, even though they could not understand each others speech. This uniformity in writing has helped to unify China and facilitate communication for many hundreds of years now.
Even now Red Flower can understand many of the Japanese characters, although she cant speak Japanese. A few years ago the Chinese government simplified many of the characters, so characters written before the simplification, or by overseas Chinese people, or Japanese, may look somewhat different. To most Chinese people the difference between the simplified characters and the traditional ones is as unnoticeable as a difference in fonts to readers of the Roman alphabet.
Red Flower's analysis of the writing on the knife brings up an interesting point, related to the "Can This Destroy America" thread in which the starting essay has a thesis that multilingual societies destroy themselves.
China has been multilingual for millennia. However, a few thousand years ago the first Qin (?) Emperor, the Emperor in the movie Hero, unified the written language. (Largely by killing everyone who disagreed with him. He buried lots of scholars alive, etc. ) Since the uniform character set was ideographic and not based on the pronunciation of words, people of all dialects could read and write it, even though they could not understand each others speech. This uniformity in writing has helped to unify China and facilitate communication for many hundreds of years now.
Even now Red Flower can understand many of the Japanese characters, although she cant speak Japanese. A few years ago the Chinese government simplified many of the characters, so characters written before the simplification, or by overseas Chinese people, or Japanese, may look somewhat different. To most Chinese people the difference between the simplified characters and the traditional ones is as unnoticeable as a difference in fonts to readers of the Roman alphabet.
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Howard Wallace said:
Actually, I think it's a Canadian retailer. I think knifemaker formerly known as Pendentive ordered a strop from there.