Traditional Craftsmanship of Bao'an Knife

Security waist knife is the traditional handicraft of the craftsmen of the security ethnic group, it is said that there has been a history of more than 140 years so far, it can be used as a portable living utensils, but also unique, ornamental decorations for enjoyment. Therefore, for a long time by the northwest region of Tibet, Mongolia, security and other ethnic people's favorite. The Baoan belt knife is exquisite and chic. The body of the knife is forged from high-quality steel, then quenched and polished to a sharp, recognizable light. Knife handle with cow horn, red copper, brass, aluminum stacking, and then by filing molding, it seems that the layers of interlaced, as if stacking gold stacking silver, strange and beautiful. Sheath internal wooden, outside with brass or red copper package, copper shell and then decorated with dragons, animals or flowers and plants, the name of "a dragon", "a branch of the plum", etc., different styles, delicate and clear. Sheath with a ring, can be hung on the waist through the rope. Waist knife with a sheath full length is generally 5 ~ 7 inches, there are longer or shorter, mostly a sheath a knife. There is also a sheath two knives, known as "double knife", more chic. Security belt knife color varieties, now up to more than 30 kinds of, such as "Shiso Jin", "sword head", "copper flat sheath", "fine Luo ", "double Luo", "a plain white", "watermelon head", "rounded corner full handle "and so on, a wide variety of styles, and compete with the strange and ingenious.