Strange Dirk & Other Knife You Tube Video

[Howling Dingo]

[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.

[Father Bill]

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.

[Howling Dingo]

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.

[bodhran4me]

Google translate gives дмитрий кузнецов as Russian to Dmitry Kuznetsov in English

[Howling Dingo]

Okay I have tracked this guy down with the same name. He is a silversmith in Russia, the dirk and sporran must of been a one off thing?

https://www.instagram.com/alcedo_jewelry/

http://silver-lab.ru/contacts/

About 80% sure this is the same guy..

[Rlail]

Looks a lot like Cold Steels Dirk

[Howling Dingo]

Looks a lot like Cold Steels Dirk

Okay,not really the one in the by "Dmitry Kuznetsov" has decorative metal/silver work on the handle and sheath .Cold steel dirk is much more plain design.The custom knife has file work on the blade.I would say the are very different.

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Cold Steel Dirk

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Custom "Dmitry Kuznetsov"

[Dr Bee]

[QUOTE=Howling Dingo;1381507]

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.

[Howling Dingo]

[QUOTE=Dr Bee;1381722]

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

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[OC Richard]

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).