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[Mok]

Well send it over when you're ready. LJM Chinese-chop Autobody Shop does custom modifications and helps you get the chop of your dreams! Satisfaction guaranteed! Trust your chop with us and book your appointment now!

You truly are a man of diverse talents!!

[Liang Jieming]

"Ughhh.... you want me to bring straws? Easier to suck if I provide straws..."


Kekeke just kidding. Sure! I'll buy drinks. I need to go get tickets first... totally slipped my mind yesterday eventhough I was at Raffles Place.

[fcharton]

"Chops" are read up to down then right to left. How many characters total is kosher?

Depends, many chops have three, LJM style : a larger surname on the right (except if your surname is a two character one, of course) and two on the left column for your first name (except if your first name has one character...). On the other hand, in this design, the family name character is stretched (ie ceases to be square shaped, as well-behaved characters should be). Some stamp carvers add the character 印 (seal), sometimes on the right column (under the surname), sometimes on the left (in which case the first name is spread on the two columns). I have a couple of stamps, of all sizes and with various 'interpretations' of my name, with 2, 3 and 4 characters,. My favourite, which I used as an ex-libris, is a two character one.

Finally, you have those with your western name and a transcription in meaningless characters next to it...

And of course, you have chops with a motto, and not your name (such a my avatar), which can be much longer.

Francois

Edited by fcharton, 04 August 2006 - 03:08 AM.

[Centaur]

"Ughhh.... you want me to bring straws? Easier to suck if I provide straws..."
Kekeke just kidding. Sure! I'll buy drinks. I need to go get tickets first... totally slipped my mind yesterday eventhough I was at Raffles Place.

No tickets and you will have to sit outside like a good little boy, and wait for us.

[Mok]

Depends, many chops have three, LJM style : a larger surname on the right (except if your surname is a two character one, of course) and two on the left column for your first name (except if your first name has one character...). On the other hand, in this design, the family name character is stretched (ie ceases to be square shapes, as good characters should be). Some stamp carvers add the character 印 (seal), sometimes on the right column (under the surname), sometimes on the left (in which case the first name is spread on the two columns). I have a couple of stamps, of all sizes and with various 'interpretations' of my name, with 2, 3 and 4 characters,. My favourite, which I used as an ex-libris, is a two character one.

Finally, you have those with your western name and a transcription in meaningless characters next to it...

And of course, you have chops with a motto, and not your name (such a my avatar), which can be much longer.

Francois

Mine is LJM's style, albeit 'dombalek'.

"Ughhh.... you want me to bring straws? Easier to suck if I provide straws..."
Kekeke just kidding. Sure! I'll buy drinks. I need to go get tickets first... totally slipped my mind yesterday eventhough I was at Raffles Place.

I don't take alcohol, so it'd be cheaper for me?

[Liang Jieming]

Mine is LJM's style, albeit 'dombalek'.
I don't take alcohol, so it'd be cheaper for me?

Errr... let me try and give a translation for Francois' and WangEnlai's benefit.

"dombalek" in Singapore-speak means "reversed". It is a corruption of the Malay word "Terbalik".

[Centaur]

Mine's with two characters... pretty tiny one too. Bought the stone from Japan and had it carved in Singapore. Used it for my cheques, but recently banks rejected it, because of the electronic reading of cheques. They could not accomodate the seal, and so it kind of 'white elephant' for the moment. I am sure I find some use for it.

[Mok]

Errr... let me try and give a translation for Francois' and WangEnlai's benefit.

"dombalek" in Singapore-speak means "reversed". It is a corruption of the Malay word "Terbalik".

LOL...forgot there were non-Sporeans here.

[Mok]

Mine's with two characters... pretty tiny one too. Bought the stone from Japan and had it carved in Singapore. Used it for my cheques, but recently banks rejected it, because of the electronic reading of cheques. They could not accomodate the seal, and so it kind of 'white elephant' for the moment. I am sure I find some use for it.

Really? You can use it for cheques?? Or rather, could?

Mine's with two characters... pretty tiny one too. Bought the stone from Japan and had it carved in Singapore. Used it for my cheques, but recently banks rejected it, because of the electronic reading of cheques. They could not accomodate the seal, and so it kind of 'white elephant' for the moment. I am sure I find some use for it.

Really? You can use it for cheques?? Or rather, could?

[WangEnlai]

LOL...forgot there were non-Sporeans here.

Singaporeacentric?

[fcharton]

Mine's with two characters... pretty tiny one too. Bought the stone from Japan and had it carved in Singapore. Used it for my cheques, but recently banks rejected it, because of the electronic reading of cheques. They could not accomodate the seal, and so it kind of 'white elephant' for the moment. I am sure I find some use for it.

Mark your books with it...

[Centaur]

Really? You can use it for cheques?? Or rather, could?

Yeah, I did, that was some time ago. In the past, some businessmen don't know how to read and write, the seal becomes their signature. Some had marked a cross on the signature line, so the seal was an improvement. It was an accepted practise till they went electronic with cheques.

Edited by Centaur, 04 August 2006 - 03:21 AM.

[Mok]

Singaporeacentric?

Whoops! Uh oh.

Mark your books with it...

I do.

[Liang Jieming]

My red chop was made in Guangzhou but I have another one made of white/beige marble which I carved myself from a piece from a construction site.

[Centaur]

Mark your books with it...

Thanks, that's a pretty nifty idea.