Question about marking your blades

IVANKERLEY

IVANKERLEY

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while ogling some of the beautiful customs that makers post on here, i noticed that some makers stamp(etch or otherwise mark) the tang/ricasso right reading, i mean if you held the knife by the handle the mark reads correctly, but i also noticed quite a few that read upside down... Just curious if there was a story behind that. Or is it just a personal design decision?
thanks to the guys posting their hard work:thumbup::D
Cheers
ivan
 
It might have something to do with the knife maker having a subconscious idea of their knife either being used or displayed?
 
I always mark assuming the user will be reading it and is right handed, so I mark on presentation side of the blade (left) oriented so when holding the knife in your right hand, you can read the mark.
 
David Schott said:
I always mark assuming the user will be reading it and is right handed, so I mark on presentation side of the blade (left) oriented so when holding the knife in your right hand, you can read the mark.
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Yeah thats the way all my old slippies and sheath knives are, just wondering why a maker would do it the other way? i mean it doesnt irritate me or anything just wondered if there was a rationale for it.

Beautiful work by the way:thumbup::thumbup:
ivan
 
IVANKERLEY said:
Yeah thats the way all my old slippies and sheath knives are, just wondering why a maker would do it the other way? i mean it doesnt irritate me or anything just wondered if there was a rationale for it.

Beautiful work by the way:thumbup::thumbup:
ivan
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Hey thanks!

Ive marked a total of 3 blades differently that I can remember. The reason was:
1. OOPS brainfart. Marked right side of blade by mistake
2. OOPS brainfart #2. marked left side of blade upside-down.
3. Left handed customer requested it.

The reading from top or bottom i can see as just personal choice, but usually marking on the left side of the blade is a fairly standard thing. not sure why historically they were done that way, but im gonna bet it also had to do with right-handed dominance to some degree.
 
Yea, I don't know either. I mark mine left side of the blade, but able to read as if you were showing the knife to someone else (I guess upside down if you're looking at it). Just the way I started, didn't have a rationale one way or the other. I've marked one blade to date with my new mark on the same side (left) but parallel to the spine. I usually don't leave flats above the grind so it just seemed like the right place for me. I've seen them marked pretty much every way including on the spine (oh, yea, I did mark one piece on the butt because the blade was Gun Kote'd) but I say to each his own...
 
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