- Joined
- Jul 22, 1999
- Messages
- 187
I was chopping through a 1 1/8" dowel yesterday with my 16.5" villager Sirupati, when I screwed up, taking a strip of skin from the side of my left index finger, from the first knuckle to the fingernail, about 1/8" wide, neat and clean as you could ask for. It didn't get into the meat but it's deep and wide enough that I will have another interesting scar - and like all the others, the story that goes with it is 'I was dumb and lucky'.
Sharpening has been interesting - the blade is so thick and the edge is so long and complex. I am still working it out, but I think I did manage to improve slightly on the edge it shipped with. It does not yet shave, but it's sharp enough to slice rather than tear my skin.
Olive oil, everybody says. We have one of those refillable spray bottles that you pump to pressurize and then they work like an aerosol. Very handy for olive oil wether cooking or coating a knife. It does slick up the scabbard nicely, as people have mentioned.
Altogether a very nice knife, and impressed the heck out of everyone in the Scappoose post office when I picked it up (I had to open it right there, see ... in case it was damaged in shipping ... right).
The villager does not have perfect finish, but it's not loose anywhere. There is some visible solder and epoxy (what the heck IS that stuff, anyway? Bill? Kami Sherpa? anybody know?) and the horn handle has some little flaws, more in the material than the workmanship. Grind marks on the blade are plainly visible. In short, it's a tool, not a museum piece, and the functioning part works fine.
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Jeff Paulsen
Sharpening has been interesting - the blade is so thick and the edge is so long and complex. I am still working it out, but I think I did manage to improve slightly on the edge it shipped with. It does not yet shave, but it's sharp enough to slice rather than tear my skin.
Olive oil, everybody says. We have one of those refillable spray bottles that you pump to pressurize and then they work like an aerosol. Very handy for olive oil wether cooking or coating a knife. It does slick up the scabbard nicely, as people have mentioned.
Altogether a very nice knife, and impressed the heck out of everyone in the Scappoose post office when I picked it up (I had to open it right there, see ... in case it was damaged in shipping ... right).
The villager does not have perfect finish, but it's not loose anywhere. There is some visible solder and epoxy (what the heck IS that stuff, anyway? Bill? Kami Sherpa? anybody know?) and the horn handle has some little flaws, more in the material than the workmanship. Grind marks on the blade are plainly visible. In short, it's a tool, not a museum piece, and the functioning part works fine.
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Jeff Paulsen
