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26th December 19, 06:05 PM
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Strange Dirk & Other Knife You Tube Video
Okay I found this video on You Tube have watched it three times now. I find it kind of strange but kind of interesting at the same time. I was keen to hear what you guys think of think of it.
So at first it looks like footage taken by some tourist in a shop in the Royal mile . But the second part of the video is footage of the dirk be constructed and plans. Note the video is tagged at Edinburgh castle which seems a tad off.
https://youtu.be/bhlOxFmqQ98
Channel is called "дмитрий кузнецов" and is the only video that has been uploaded. So I say nice work on both the knifes and the sporran.
I am not sure about small knife seems too big for a sgian-dubh and has a belt sheath with a frog. Perhaps it is meant to be a sgian-dearg not a sgian-dubh? Some kind of clan crest on the dirk,Fraser maybe?
Video is very short on any kind of info and more of a personal record than anything else. I am guessing a Greek knifemaker made this for a local Scot? He shows some good crafting skills but rather poor film making skills.
Last edited by Howling Dingo; 26th December 19 at 06:19 PM.
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26th December 19, 06:26 PM
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Seems to be a talented metal worker/bladesmith in Russia.
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26th December 19, 06:49 PM
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[QUOTE=Luke MacGillie;1381506]Seems to be a talented metal worker/bladesmith in Russia.[/QUOTE
Yes more likely to be Russian than Greek both alphabets are similar to me. Profile photo shows a man at a table with a haggis and a bottle of Glenfiddich.
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26th December 19, 07:06 PM
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 Originally Posted by Howling Dingo
Originally Posted by Luke MacGillie
Seems to be a talented metal worker/bladesmith in Russia.
Profile photo shows a man at a table with a haggis and a bottle of Glenfiddich.
Well then, definitely Russian.
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26th December 19, 07:58 PM
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I done a bit of knife making myself and is a lot of skill and time to pull this off to this level. Just seems like a lack of info on this guy and curious what the story is.
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27th December 19, 03:56 PM
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Google translate gives дмитрий кузнецов as Russian to Dmitry Kuznetsov in English
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5th January 20, 07:53 AM
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[QUOTE=Howling Dingo;1381507]
Originally Posted by Luke MacGillie
Seems to be a talented metal worker/bladesmith in Russia.[/QUOTE
Yes more likely to be Russian than Greek both alphabets are similar to me. Profile photo shows a man at a table with a haggis and a bottle of Glenfiddich.
I know very little about Russian or about the metallurgy and other skills required to make sgians, dirks, etc, but at one time of my life I studied ancient Greek so intensely that I was beginning to think in it. Please be assured those characters are not Greek.
As for haggis and Glenfiddich, these delicacies are best enjoyed separately: I would have Glenfiddich, then haggis, then more Glenfiddich - but that's just me, it's not a strict rule of any kind.
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5th January 20, 02:52 PM
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[QUOTE=Dr Bee;1381722]
Originally Posted by Howling Dingo
I know very little about Russian or about the metallurgy and other skills required to make sgians, dirks, etc, but at one time of my life I studied ancient Greek so intensely that I was beginning to think in it. Please be assured those characters are not Greek.
As for haggis and Glenfiddich, these delicacies are best enjoyed separately: I would have Glenfiddich, then haggis, then more Glenfiddich - but that's just me, it's not a strict rule of any kind.
I think we have established the name is Russian not Greek.But that's for you help as there are few things too go on with this bloke.
Again for me both alphabets look kind of the same to me. Seems like a lot an of art and crafts coming out of the old USSR states. For years the state blocked or controlled a lot of these kind of things. Now folk are enjoying there new found freedom.
Yes haggis then Glenfiddich but not at the same time, I am with you there,mate.! I store my Glenfiddich in my sporran in between munching on my haggis
haggis.jpg
Last edited by Howling Dingo; 6th January 20 at 07:08 PM.
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6th January 20, 02:43 PM
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About alphabets, the name shown is in the Cyrillic alphabet which is used in a number of countries for a number of languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabets
I learned the alphabet in the course of learning about Bulgaria. It comes in handy due to news videos often having a streaming of Cyrillic going across the bottom, or in the oddest times like when they go on a Russian space station in the film Gravity and I can read the signage (the words being the same scientific words we use, borrowed from Greek and Latin).
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