Day of the Dead Knife engraving

[andrewoval]

I never thought i would have a client send a knife to coop for photos this soon in my engraving career. The theme is "Dias de los muertos" aka Day of the dead.

 

[willy]

Wow.
Thanks for sharing.
willy

 

[JJ Roberts]

Andrew,Thanks for sharing,the client well be pleased, Day of the Dead that is a different theme. Keep up the good work. J.J.

 

[Titian]

Awesome work.
I love it.

 

[mrthe]

Thank you for show it,very nice knife,wich material are the bolster?

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Looks nice indeed. Curious about the material of the bolster too

arnaud

 

[andrewoval]

Thanks for the compliments guys. The side material was bronze, this knife was about a solid pound in weight.

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Thanks for the info.

I do know the difference between bronze and brass. But it is a bit difficult to translate using Google.

Over here we have brons and yellow copper.

Bronze = brons = copper and tin
Brass = yellow copper = copper and zinc

arnaud

 

[Donny]

Here in Arizona that knife would go over VERY well!!!!

Donny

 

[monk]

a strange marrige of design. quite elegant to look at, i must say.

 

[JJ Roberts]

Monk,The design is not that strange,Day of the Dead is a holiday celebated in Mexico by the Mexican people were they set aside a day to put flowers on the graves of there loved ones.J.J.

 

[Peter E]

I saw that on a knife forum where Chuck posts. VERY nice design and well done.

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

J.J. thanks for the info. I suppose they have more holidays than I know about. Over here we have two holidays to celebrate the dead, allerheiligen en allerzielen. (all saint and all souls)

arnaud

 

[mrthe]

Arnaud just because i'm curious because i was born in the day that in Italy we celebrate the day of the Death ( Cool!!!) that is the 2 of november the 1 of november is all saints , but we not celebrate death in this day... well... in Belgium wich days are all saints snd all souls?

P.S.
In USA you don't have a day of the death?

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

mrthe, same here, 1 nov. is all saints, 2 nov is all souls.
of course we have same hollidays, as the Vatican too ruled here. It still does but a bit less now a days.

arnaud