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Post by Kane Shen on Dec 25, 2021 7:46:58 GMT
A fitting parting gift!
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Post by mrbadexample on Dec 25, 2021 14:48:48 GMT
Brother, have you seen the knives from that period that had lines of music inlaid in the blade as part of the design? I believe they often served as a guide for leading hymns at table and similar, but the opening bars of a love song might suit here…
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Post by skelley on Dec 25, 2021 15:07:17 GMT
I'm really in love with all of the details in the scabbard.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2021 17:46:51 GMT
I'm excited to see this one. As someone who cooks for a hobby, I appreciate a good knife (though I have yet to get one).
With this fantastic design and majestic eyes of purna, this can only become amazing
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Post by howler on Dec 25, 2021 21:01:04 GMT
I wanted to have a late 15th century - 16th-century eating knife aesthetic in this piece. It's like something akin to Tod's pieces but with a fantasy flare in my style. I tried to turn up romanticism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Proposed design(Handle material will be buffalo horn instead of wood depicted, orange is copper, yellow is brass): More illustrations, showing different angles and measurements:Proposed scabbard (Brass shell + carvings, window of brass bars revealing black leather below, heart under the brass "cage"): Detail of weeping woman:
Lore:A gift of love, a parting love-for it could never be. It was an arranged betrothal to another to solidify dominion exchanges in the north that confined it. Lord Bren stroked the raised, carved lock on the metaphorical prison. Outside looking in was the only way he could restrain the reality. He wondered how much she poured her soul out to the smith to devise such a natural portrayal of the ache in his chest. " You do have an opportunity to implore to my father. Let us not squander an instant longer, my beloved!" "Unless it is determined by combat, how can I swing him out from such an alliance? Your house would now have 2/3rds of the north." Of course, it was true, but he always lamented not taking the gamble. And so did she, as he had to assist her onto her steed. She was so troubled. He watched with stinging eyes as she rode back in the middle of the night to evade detection. It was the last he glimpsed of her. Nat, by brother, I wonder if Purna works/could work with stainless? Seems a harder, stainless steel (less rust & sharpening) would be more ideal for kitchen work. Cool look and intriguing concept.
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Post by mrbadexample on Dec 26, 2021 0:19:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2021 2:30:11 GMT
I think my favorite thing to make has to be lemon pepper wet dry ribs and wedges. I cut my own "ribs" off of a pork lion, coat them, deep fry them, and make my own lemon pepper wet sauce (not sure why they're called ribs if they don't even have a bone). I like a lot of things, breaded pork chops, pizza, lasagna, beef stew, roast beef, and so on. I dunno if I can even pick my fav, but I'm gonna go with the dry ribs. I imitate a sauce I only find at my home town, on my island But I'm also really big on making smash burgers
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2021 2:58:06 GMT
Looks good and could be medieval, served in a tavern! Tbh most my food is bar food haha. I love bar food but don't go to bars anymore
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Post by Murffy on Dec 26, 2021 16:05:14 GMT
I like the overall design of the knife and scabbard - the woman figure is pulled off well - but I've never been taken with heart symbols. Too cutesy. They make it all kind of meh for me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2021 18:15:20 GMT
It's fair for a 21st century person to find heart symbols cutesy, but I think it's clear our ancestors felt differently. These symbols adorned objects used by alpha-male warrior elites to stab and hack through human flesh. There's never been anything cutesy about that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2021 18:41:13 GMT
I always found beauitful imagery to be a nice way to juxtapose the nature of the weapon
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Post by Murffy on Dec 26, 2021 23:24:41 GMT
Interesting to learn the heart symbol goes way back. Still not for me. I think I'd go with flowers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2021 1:05:36 GMT
Flowers are good. Floral designs always look nice an swords.
I once wanted to make a pink katana with a sparkly saya. I just found the idea so appealingly absurd, that this thing even a woman would find too girly for them is capable of slaying a person, and is designed for it. I've also wanted to do a cartoony Halloween theme on a katana for the same reason, absurdity. Even my phoenix king sword is absurd to me
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Post by howler on Dec 27, 2021 1:52:38 GMT
It's fair for a 21st century person to find heart symbols cutesy, but I think it's clear our ancestors felt differently. These symbols adorned objects used by alpha-male warrior elites to stab and hack through human flesh. There's never been anything cutesy about that. Oh Man, talk about a rough and tumble culture, finding stabbing & hacking through human flesh as being "cutesy". Klingons would be viewed as Summer of love hippy vegans by comparison.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2021 6:13:46 GMT
Daaaaaaaamn. That's crazy. I never seen a kitchen knife with such immaculate decorations, not to mention that scabbard. That scabbard man
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2021 18:33:50 GMT
That's beauitful, art man. The most beauitful chefs knife I've ever seen. That scabbard, I don't think a chefs knife ever even had such a nice scabbard in history. Next level design man
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2021 18:44:57 GMT
That is SICK! It turned out slightly different from your original design, but in a way that I think is for the better. It looks so handmade and bespoke. That's so gorgeous.
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Post by skelley on Jan 4, 2022 1:36:11 GMT
Looks real nice! Again, loving the scabbard. I misunderstood the original design though. I thought the interior of the scabbard was exposed by the bars and the locked heart was revealed when the knife was drawn.
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Post by William Swiger on Jan 4, 2022 1:49:55 GMT
Nice!
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Post by alientude on Jan 7, 2022 2:39:55 GMT
Absolutely stunning, both in design and execution.
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