Naming a blade?

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crowinghorse

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I am having a custom made tomahawk/lance made by ATC and am wondering how everyone 'names' their blades?

I have heard names form the elegant to the down right funny...
How do you name your blades?

jch
 
Two dogs ____ing.

Joke stolen from a certain Cherokee whose name we shan't mention but it begins with Y.
 
my horn handled 25" sirupati. I realized that I always thought of her as The Black Eel. The name just popped into my head and it stuck.

Frank
 
"The Pokerizer"?

That was the name of some guy's gun in a Stephen King book... that man is strange.
 
Joking aside, I've a little sirupati with a 8" blade that constantly whimpers to be turned loose to attack. I named her Audrey after the carnivorous bloodsucking plant in "Little Shop of Horrors".

The second knife I have that is named came out of the shop with the rest of the smiths calling it Surya, Chandra, Tara. Nepali for Sun, Moon, and Stars. The smith forged those symbols into the blade like a leatherworker would carve floral scenes into a belt.

There are many others waiting to earn a place in my heart and a name. They aren't there yet.
 
I have decided to let Justin Gingrich at ATC name it. He is bladesmith and as far as I know, it is almost always the bladesmith who name the blades...

I wish I could show you this beauty, but I will Justin post a pic of it on the ATC forums when I get a hold of him. It is getting engraved right now and having the sheath made. Can't wait to get back to CONUS to play with my new toy (and my wife :D...six months away is a son-of-a-gun ;))
 
Never had a need to name any of my knives.

I've always called them knives (or knife). Have actually gone as far as referring to them by the makers last name. Or. . .the name that the maker tagged them with.

Always felt that "me" giving a bladed object "a name" was pretty much in the same league as naming ones privates (and not the "privates" in the military). . .and my privates don't have a name. :D
 
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