Name that Kami...

BruiseLeee

BruiseLeee

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Which is the Kami whos mark looks like a runic "B" or a half of a Christmas tree?

I'd upload a picture but I haven't gotten around to figuring that out yet. Plus I'm too lazy.
 
Ohhh....Durba's mark....that would mean this chitlangi I got last week and have been admiring here by my keyboard is a Durba! Thanks Uncle! He does great work.

Hank:cool:
 
They all do good work but each has his own style and good days and bad. Durba has become quite popular but each seems to have his own following. We get more requests for Bura and Sanu than others, tho.
 
I have (I think) blades by every current kami except Kesar, and he won't be long :) Maybe I'm just a bit obsessive-compulsive, but I go over every new blade with a glass. As Uncle says, they all have their styles - close inspection gives you a read on their work like learning the "hand" of a telegrapher in the old days (yeah, I go back that far). Even under the QC standards at BirGorkha, they manage to show a little "flash" from time to time (Sanu can really bust loose :)) and the kami's "spirit in the blade" shows just a little or a lot more of his talents and mood the day the blade was forged. These are individual hand-worked pieces of art in a medium as old as their hills. Total fascination is a requirement, and a great pleasure. Finding a favorite among them is something I cannot possibly do.
 
....If I ever got my hands on your M43, neither one of us would be sitting down, and I'd be praying you were as old, skinny and kindly as your propaganda..er..testaments indicate. Not that I would lust after another's blades, of course - just a spur of the moment thing I've been planning all year :rolleyes:
 
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