[lovegbt]

In order to clip the steel whole handicraft creation this knife,
All grow 30 CMs,
The knife blade grows 17 CMs.
Knife blade breadth 2.4 CMs,
Thick 4.8 MMs,
The edgy degree of hardness is in 58-60 degrees.
http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=77612&stc=1&d=1209797137

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=77613&stc=1&d=1209797137

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[lovegbt]

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=77617&stc=1&d=1209797312

[sixgunner455]

Very nice!

[CWL]

Who makes your knives?

[Thernlund]

That is sweeeet!


-T.

[Indifferent]

Chop Sticks!
woohoo!

[hso]

What is the handle material? Horn?

[CZ.22]

Edgy degree of hardness.
With all due respect, lovegbt, your translation program produces some funny quotes.
That is a beautiful knife. I'm normally not a huge fan of Eastern styled blades, but I'd be proud to own it.
What steel is it made of, besides having a Rockwell hardness of 58-60?
Also, those chopsticks are nice.
(If, unlike me, you able to use chopsticks, but the knifee wouldn't look quite as cool with a Spork next to it)
Seriously beautiful knife. Being made in China isn't neccessarily a bad thing.
Darn, I want one of them.
What are the weapon laws like in China? You can't own guns, can you?
(You are in China, aren't you?)

[wuchak]

simply beautiful!

[James T Thomas]

My guess is Iranian or Sikh blade.

Convex grind; which I like.

That is fascinating.

Cultural education and exposure over the internet.

[sm]

Very nice!

Is that handle enamel and the sheath and chopsticks sterling silver?

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

[Pax Jordana]

Round here we call that a Hobo Kit :)

But hey, if it ain't broke..!

Lovegbt is your stuff for sale or are you just bragging?

[JShirley]

That is...awesome. If I had the funds, I'd be waving them to buy that knife.

love, that knife blade looks longer to me than 17CMs.

John

[CWL]

My guess is Iranian or Sikh blade.

This is a fancy model of something that used to be standard 'kit' in Asia.
I wish I could remember where I've seen them before, chopsticks and all. Possibly a Chinese minority knife, Uighir? Shan?

[lovegbt]

Isn't argent
The chopsticks are cupreous

Only 1

[lovegbt]

You feel should price how much?

[JShirley]

love,

Without handling the knife, it's hard to say how much the people here think it should be. If it is as nice as it looks in the pictures, it could be fairly expensive.

HOW expensive could depend on whether the knife is made in a factory, or by hand.

John

[hso]

Looks to be horn for the black on the handle while the blade is a traditional Chinese pattern.

What is the white metal in the handle? I looks to be contrasted with Cu.

[sm]

Granted I am as dumb as a brick ...

I still say the handle is fine metal, such as sterling silver, brass, with enameling.
I will even venture to say some gold is used, or at least gold plating.

Very nice whatever it is, and my sincerest compliments as the craftsmanship really shows.

[igpoobah]

Sweeeet; built in chopstick holsters!

[gb6491]

I believe that set is a rendition of an early Chinese (or country under Chinese influence - Tibet to Mongolia) Trousse. Very nicely done, I might add.
Regards,
Greg

[pbhome71]

I like Lovegbt's posts. He shows some very nice pieces.

Thanks for sharing.

-Pat

[Jason_G]

Isn't argent
The chopsticks are cupreous

Only 1
So the chopsticks are not silver, but copper? They don't look like copper to me. Bad translation?

Jason

[quatin]

Ni de dao shi yao mai ma?

[lovegbt]

en shi de
shi yao mai diao
你有兴趣吗？

[p35]

Kind of an Asian seax- I like it!

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

As usual, very beautiful knife!

[quatin]

Ni ke yi mai dao mei guo?

[TimboKhan]

你使這些刀您自己？我們如何能購買他們呢？我使用Google翻譯，希望這使您更容易！

[ArfinGreebly]

Y'know, since most of us are primarily English-reading yokels, it might be considered good manners to add an English translation -- or at least a summary -- of the limericks y'all are trading back and forth.

C'mon, now, share with the rest of the class.

[The Tourist]

Puzzled

So was I. I figured it was something good. So here's what I did.

I copied it and pasted it to WordPerfect. Then I painfully backed out all of the "?" marks that appeared between the symbols. Then I changed the font to the biggest I could get.

I have no scanner, so I photographed the copy, downloaded it to PhotoBucket and e-mailed it to my cousin Alan. Yes, that cousin. I thought he read Chinese, he worked there once.

He couldn't read it, so he showed it to his driver, an unpleasant little man that used to drive for the mafia during the 1950's. He woke him up...(yikes)

The driver says that the message simply asks if the owner made the knives and how much they cost.

That's all folks.

[CWL]

This translation is more accurate:

Ni ke yi mai dao mei guo?

Are you able to sell knife (to) America?
Ni = You
ke yi = able to
mai = sell
dao = knife
mei guo = America


你使這些刀您自己？我們如何能購買他們呢？我使用Google翻譯，希望這使您更容易！

Did you make this knife? How can we buy them?

I am using Google Translator, hope it makes this easier for you to read!

[The Tourist]

hope it makes this easier

Sure, now you tell me...

[TimboKhan]

hehe.. Sorry Arf. I was just using google translator, but backwards. I did an english to chinese translation and just cut and pasted.

CWL decoded my message exactly as it was written! All hail Google.

[lovegbt]

呵呵
大家好啊
我又回来了

刀子终于到我手里了，但是，好像不是那么锋利的

我想，可能是我的方法不对

[The Tourist]

您必须發現使用日本方法的磨削器。

[lovegbt]

您必须發現使用日本方法的磨削器?????
what?

[The Tourist]

You stated that you didn't know if the edge was sharp on this Chinese knife.

I responded that you should seek out the methods of a Japanese sharpener.

[Jason_G]

我仍試圖弄清楚什麼筷子製成的。其中的翻譯說，銅，但他們並不期望得到銅。

他們是鍍金？

I'm still trying to figure out what the chopsticks are made of. One of the translations said copper, but they don't look to be copper.

Are they plated?

Jason

[kungfucowboy]

duibuqi wo de dianao bu hui da hanzi. wo de zhongwen ye bu tai hao. ni de daozi hen hao kan. wo xianzai zai qingdao. ni zai shenme chengshi? yaoshi ni jia bu tai yuan wo hen xiang guo lai kankan ni mai de daozi. keyi ma?

ni you mei you gongjian? keyi zai zhonguo mai ma?

[JohnKSa]

Just an FYI.

If you're using a machine translator, you can often "check" the result by translating it back into your own language.

If what you get doesn't make sense to you, adjust the wording and try again.

You can also try using two different machine translators for the process.

If you can translate something into a foreign language, translate that result back into your own language and have something that is reasonably clear then the odds are pretty good that it will also make sense in the foreign language.

[kamagong]

Nice knife.

The chopsticks look like brass. Now I like brass, and it has its uses, but I would never use brass chopsticks. Brass often leaves a smell on your hands after you handle it, and I wouldn't be surprised if brass left a strange taste in your mouth. Still, the whole package is quite handsome.

[lovegbt]

kungfucowboy
wo li qing dao hen yuan
wo zai da xi bei
xinjiang wulumuqi

dan shi zai zhong guo de hua

wo ke yi gei ni kan shi pin 视频

[lovegbt]

hello

[22-rimfire]

Looks like an Asian Hobo knife to me. :) Pretty blade.

[Pax Jordana]

lovegbt, we're all waiting for you to show us more cool knives!

[CWL]

Just to follow-up, this knife is an excellent example of a Tibetan-pattern cavalry or campaign knife.

Perhaps most people weren't aware of it but for most of Tibet's history, they were quite a warlike people and were famous for their cavalry. (it was only the last 2 centuries that Buddhism became prevalent)

Another bit of useless trivia: lead was so rare/expensive in Tibet that silver was commonly used for bullets until the modern age.