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23rd July 2007, 07:40 PM
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Blast!!!.. I 'm about to go to bed. But your pics might yield me another sleepless night
 Fisrt of all, please accept my sincerely thanks for sharing these precious pics. And please turn on Thai encoding in your browser. The inscription 's in old words. Many are not in used. Petchaburi is a province name, 80 miles south of Bangkok มีดเง้าปังโตดำไทยปลายเจ๊ก is a polearm blade (Ngao/เง้า/ง้าว, Naginata style) with Thai (ไทย) handle (ดำ/ด้ำ/ด้าม) which, in this case might refers to either blade body, pole or tang) and Chinese (เจ๊ก) end/tip (ปลาย) ระดิงหัวเสียบสวน : Totally no idea for ระดิง but my expert friends might heard it. หัวเสียบสวน might refer to its tip หัว/Hua/head,tip เสียบ/Siab/push สวน/Suan/ adv. against, n. garden  มีดตอกกลาง is the easiest one, central style rattan shredder มีด/mead/knife ตอก/tok/n. rattan กลาง/klang/central น้ำวน means whirlpool, I have no idea, refer to tip shape, perhaps. IMHO: these are models for one who was tried to archive styles of Thai knives. Again, this collection 's very valueable for us. Many many thanks for sharing. 
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23rd July 2007, 10:08 PM
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My pleasure!
Thank you for the translations. I made fairly detailed measurements and individual photos of the larger blades, and of a couple representative small ones. I will post the full pictures and measurements of the ones with the writing which I posted here. I plan to create a page on my web-site dedicated to this little collection, with all the photos and measurements that I took. Seeing the whole blade will probably make the descriptions make fore sense ("whirlpool" may refer to a whorled protrusion near the tip, as seen, for example, on the middle blade of the second photo). |
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24th July 2007, 12:47 AM
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More photos
Here are photos of the full blades of the details posted above. The measurements (in cm) are as follows (NB: "tip" spine width is taken 1 cm back from the tip itself):
First: blade length - 46.1 widest span (edge to spine) - 9.3/10.1 (first/second "peaks" from tang) tang length - 12.5 spine width at tang - 0.9 span width at tip - 0.2 Second: blade length - 56.5 widest span (edge to spine) - 7.9 tang length - 11.6 spine width at tang - 1.0 span width at tip - 0.2 Third: blade length - 32.6 widest span (edge to spine) - 5.1 tang length - 7.7 spine width at tang - 0.8 span width at tip - 0.2 Fourth: no detailed measurements take, but it is small, about 16 cm in length Fifth: blade length - 38.2 widest span (edge to spine) - 9.5 tang length - 11.1 spine width at tang - 0.9 span width at tip - 0.3 |
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24th July 2007, 12:59 AM
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Here is a group picture of the last tray of blades, to show the variety of shapes. to give an idea of scale, the blade at the bottom of this tray is the first in the series above, which is 46.1 cm long.
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24th July 2007, 02:53 PM
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Wow great set of shapes . I few of the shorter shapes are similar to utilitarian blades I've seen in Burma but many are quite weird and interesting .
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24th July 2007, 03:48 PM
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I forgot to translate the 3rd item, มีดโต้ลาว / Lao's chopper
มีด/mead/knife โต้/Toe/Dao or chopper ลาว/Lao/Lao people Alaung_Hpaya, these designs are very regional and most of them are also weird to me.  That because they are so utilitarian type that they rarely went to museum. 
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21st May 2010, 04:56 AM
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A "Wall Catalog" in a folk shop.
    
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