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In Ermitage, San Petersburg in Russia started new exhibition of modern weapon artists. this is not about weapons themselves but about the art on weapons.
here is the website. have fun.
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/what-s-on/temp_exh/2016/gunsmiths/?lng=ru
>>30309900
btw that knife art costs around 200 000 dollars.
Neato.
>>30309914
>>30309886
here the count until exhibition
http://kudago.com/spb/event/vystavka-stil-obraz-garmoniya-mastera-oruzhejniki-/
company which organized the whole thing
http://www.mezhov.info/
>>30310010
>>30310029
>>30310010
Oh shit that's the sex.
>>30310056
those are real and rare materials. silver, gold, stone gems and so on..
there is a master in South Russia who is the only in the world who learned how to smith the shit into the steel a way so it bend in Damask. he once made an apple shape mixture inside of the steel block. they than just cut it in half and he got paid shit load of money not to make a knife out of it. some japanese bought it for half million, polished it and has it now in his private exhibition.
all i see is garbage
>>30310151
All this shit looks like expensive mall ninja garbage.
>>30310177
>>30310151
>>30310162
we alien artifact now
>>30310196
>>30309886
That is an absolute masterpiece
>>30310210
>>30310236
>>30310251
>>30310265
>>30310251
>>30310236
Looks like something an officer cadet in Battlestar Galactica would wear
>>30310281
>>30310251
This is one of the most soviet looking things I've ever seen.
>>30310281
btw the knife cross unfolds when you hold fest in your hand. looks very epic.
>>30310301
it isnt. but it is in style of soviet symbolism. btw. very close to the italian fascism symbolism style.
>>30310038
I wonder of it fits in a vagoo.
>>30310038
Nice to see the blade shape and pattern welding working together somewhat at least. Too often (looking at you, knife in >>30310127 , though we've certainly seen worse) the pattern end sup working more as dazzle camouflage.
As for these things overall, while there's a lot of neat details to be seen, and overall good craftsmanship I guess, it usually end sup being, well, not quite my cup of tea. A bit overdone, treating the base object as little but a canvas, instead of letting the knife be a knife first and foremost.
Then again, with a really high end and crafted knife, odds may be that it isn't going to see any use anyway, so when you're not trying to replicate a historical artefact or anything like that vaguely the knife-shaped sculpture might perhaps be the most honest one after all.
>>30310127
I'm not sure how that'd differ form mosaic damascus in general, but I'm not entirely sure what it is he's suppsoed to have done beyond having the apple appear either, so... And perhaps gaudy is how the customer base prefers it. Smith's gotta eat.
here comes that most freaking star wars knife.
>>30310350
>>30310323
Oh I know they're all modern, but some of them absolutely look the part.
>>30310329
Idk what the fuck this is but my dick is diamonds
>>30309886
>https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/what-s-on/temp_exh/2016/gunsmiths/?lng=ru
>>30310401
its a way how you burn steel surface. was used in the middle ages to decorate the armor and weapons. sadly almost lost art. also it goes away with a time due oxidation.
>>30310301
Yeah, it's like from a soviet future that never was.
some shit for daily use.
Oh, this was a neat one.
>>30310401
Mosaic damascus blades made by Mattias Styrefors. IIRC he gets the colours form using steel with varying nickel content (up to pure nickel) and then heat bluing the entire thing, with different compositions taking on different colours.
His site: http://www.styrefors.com/
Some blades for sale: http://www.thegoodstuffshop.dk/group.asp?group=3607&lang=uk
>>30310448
apparently they fixed japans weapons for them.
>>30310472
ok that was made for sure for some american oligarch to be show in new york as "russian art" hehe..
like this one. very hilarious idea and well made.
>>30310426
>>30310301
It's literally called "Everyone Remembers Soviet Union"
>>30310472
Sexiest axe I've ever seen.
>>30310472
From the Earth where the Russian invasion of Japan ended WW2.
>>30310501
Then they did a great job of expressing their intention through the art.
in asia was tradition to make ceremonial or luxury chopsticks. the tradition survived only in Russian siberia, mongolia and some part of China. the wealthy mongol always has own set of very well made Chopsticks or "dining set" which usually includes small knife and chopsticks to eat meat and noodles. i remember seeing a report of some very old mongolian artist who did nothing beside luxury chopsticks.
btw. people from ex soviet union has the tradition to have a knife as a decoration in their room. it comes from war and russian royals having weapons on the walls. later ordinary people put the knifes of own as a deco. soviet union had tradition to give "honor weapons" as a award in millitary victories or for long and hard work. i met once russian, who had a dager given to his granddad by tzar, dagger given to him again by soviets during the citizen war, then one to his father in ww2 and one very beautifully knife given to him by Russian goverment for chechen war.
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>>30309914
I wonder if the guy doing the makarov knfe ever finished it
>>30310251
Gorgeous. Not sure about the two little golden stars but still wonderful.
>>30310323
>in style of soviet symbolism
I think you mean Constructivism
>>30311252
I dunno, because you fucks DDOS'd him or whatever and scared him off...
>>30310472
What kind of hammer is that the bottom
>>30311911
It is a Horadric Malus
>>30309914
Where did this come from?
I was sad to not see any fancy guns.
>>30309914
>2016
>not having a spare magazine for your Mak in your knife handle.
JUST FUCK MY WALLET UP DESU
>>30309913
Daario Nahares, is that you?
>>30310177
>>30310196
This one is genuinely beautiful. Simple but elegant.
>>30310686
How are those knives called? My wife is half-Japanese and I've always wanted to get a fancy one of those for her. Maybe a little longer though.
>>30317631
tanto
>>30309914
Which came first?
