MEXICAN blade styles?

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Alright guys time to help a white boy out:D my old seargent in the army is throwing his step daughter somthing called a ca sen yetta or somthing like that some sort of welcome to women hood type thing. its supposed to be realy fancy with old school costumes and the like. well his family was like my adoptive family while i was in texas and ide like to do them a good turn. ide like to make two dress knives of spanish or mexican desighn one for her and one for the young man that is accoumpaning her. so the question is does any body have any pics of these type blades that i could go off of?
thanks alot
doc silas
 
It is a Quinceañera. (pronounced kinsinyera) It is in honor of her 15th birthday. It is a very important event for the family. Sorry, got no knife suggestions.
 
i might be wrong, but mabye this is the one of the few events that you cant slip in a knife , no matter how clever you are.

mabey you could make a cake cuting/carving set or something liek that.
 
Wildewinds said:
Actually it's more like: keen-say-ah-nee-eh-da ;)

As for the blade, I image googled "mexican knife." Seems like there are a few ideas you can work off of.

http://images.google.com/images?q=m...&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&safe=off&start=0&sa=N
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yeah man i tried that earlier but wasnt thrilled with what popped up. seams that most of those pics were lincs to somthing totaly diffrent:mad: oh well i will keep looking.

drano i might be wrong, but mabye this is the one of the few events that you cant slip in a knife , no matter how clever you are.

mabey you could make a cake cuting/carving set or something liek that.
i dont think it would be that hard do you? didnt most men wear a dress blade to special occasians? my great grand father had "church" knives and such.
 
I think the intention is good Doc but this is 2006 not 1886 :) I do not think that many young folks appreciate knives like we do. You might be better off buying a few cases of Corona or Negro Modelo. :thumbup:
 
rebeltf said:
I think the intention is good Doc but this is 2006 not 1886 :) I do not think that many young folks appreciate knives like we do. You might be better off buying a few cases of Corona or Negro Modelo. :thumbup:
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yeah your probably right. i just thought they would go together since they are dressing up like its 1886 haha oh well thanks a lot guys
 
I believe that you will find much more variety in Spanish blades than in Mexican blades.

For some beautiful Spanish knives take a look at posts by Montejano in The Gallery, or in his Web site.

Here's a picture of my Mexican knife from The Aragon family in Oaxaca.

Luis


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Don Luis,

Is the Aragon family still making knives? I read a James Ayres article on this knifemaking clan and my interest was piqued. I'd love to get a handmade knfie by them.
 
thanks alot this was more along the lines of what i wanted just not as beautiful or highley styalized as these but i think i have the basic flow now. and you are correct ive found many more pics on spanish weaponery than i did for purely mexican. thank you all for your input
Don_Luis said:
I believe that you will find much more variety in Spanish blades than in Mexican blades.

For some beautiful Spanish knives take a look at posts by Montejano in The Gallery, or in his Web site.

Here's a picture of my Mexican knife from The Aragon family in Oaxaca.

Luis


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I'm not Mexican. But that's just rude. And it is not funny.
 
I have an old one from Oxuaca,Mexico that was made for a boy of 15 or 16
It has an engraving of a bull horning a horse in the tail end and on the other side is a scene with a couple floating down a river on a raft and the woman cutting something up.It has an area for a name.Send me you email and i will send ya a pic.If it is not too late.
 
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