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Yvsa

Yvsa

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I registered on bladeforums.com on May 18,1999.I didn't know anything abut a Kuhkuri at that time.I still don't know anything about them.I always find the more I learn the less I know.
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Since that time I have become the proud possessor of a

1 - 15" Ang Khola,my wifes.
2 - 18" " " ,mine
3 - Hanuman with WW II blade.
4 - 18th Century
5 - 17" Village Sirupati
6 - 16" Village Dhankuta.

On order.
1 - Ganga Ram
2 - Special 9" that many of us ordered
3 - 3 of the little paper cutters.

Want? - Do I have to explain this one? No,seriously!
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I would like to have a 12" Chainpuri with engraving in a special scabbard.I am not sure about the engraving.
I could go for something special like a stately Bison (I don't like that word,but to clarify from the other Buffalo.
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) or an Elk Stag with a large rack.
I really think that in keeping with tradition that the traditional engraving would be best with maybe my Cherokee name Red Buffalo on it.

What do you guys think? How would you go?

What is on your wish list?
Any fancy ones?

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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.



[This message has been edited by Yvsa (edited 23 August 1999).]
 
How did you become a senior member so fast? You must post like ten messages a day!

 
Yvsa, I'm working on an elk stag grip on a villager which will have a silver and gold plated medallion as a buttplate. Incidentally, the elk stag has been taken down to the layer under the rough, colored outside, making it look similar to fossil ivory. I've also found that saving the stag powder filed off and using regular superglue, you can fill any holes or cracks alost invisibly.
 
I am similarly afflicted Yvsa. Basically, I want 1 of each. Since February (when I barely knew what a khurkri was!) I have collected 5. My favorite is my 15" AK but I really want an 18" AK with the "ideal hardness" like yours. I have limited myself to 5 for monetary reasons, not out of desire. I am going to start saving for that 18".

The horn handle with some engraving sounds great! Maybe add a silver bolster and buttcap and a splash of tourquois and you would really have something!!!

Uncle Bill, I assume that a stag would not present any problems for the Newari engravers. If I provided them with a picture of my family crest do you think they could duplicate it? Shame on you Yvsa for starting "evil" thoughts about engraving and horn handles!
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Mike
 
We can come close to about anything you want. Notice I say close!

The time to place any special orders will be when Kami is here. Person to person communications work so much better. When we are sure exactly what you want and all parties agree and understand what is to be done Kami can take the orders back with him and get the job done. Trying to do it over the phone and via express mail, sending sketches and snapshots sometimes just doesn't work.

Uncle Bill
 
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Don:
It seemed like it took me forever to make that 100th post.It just added another word to the title as far as I am concerned.It sure didn't make my posts any more enlighteneing,probably not any wordier either.However I notice that some senior members talk a lot more than others.It sure doesn't make them any more credible.Especially mine.
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PS.I looked at your profile and you have been registered for a month and have 65 posts.That's about the same rate I had I think.You have 35 posts to go and then you can talk as much as me and some others.
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Mike:
I want the engraving done on the blade.I have a watercolor af a Proud old Bull Buffalo standing on one of those eroded banks like you see in many of the drier parts of the midwest.He is standing there so proud with his tail at a juanty little angle and there is a bunch of well satisfied looking cow on a hill behind him.I think it might be neat to immortalize him in steel.
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Either him or a Stately Elk Stag standing on a hill like the add for the HArtford Insurance Co.
Now you can really get shook up.LOLOL.

Rusty:
I think I know what you have in mind.
That ,Will knock everyones socks off.
I have a bit of whitetail deer antler like I have never seen before.It is extremley smmoth even down around the base.It reminds me of what I think Uncle talks about with the little Nepal deer and the antler looking like ivory.This sure does and it isn't porous like most antler in the center.I am anxious to see your efforts for sure now!!

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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
The civilized man sleeps behind locked doors in the city while the naked savage sleeps (with a knife) in a open hut in the jungle.



[This message has been edited by Yvsa (edited 23 August 1999).]
 
Neat thing about superglue is drill a big hole and then go in from the inside and squirt it around, and it'll get sucked up into the porous part and reinforce it.

Plus, when you're working on the outside part and you go a bit too deep and hit the porous part, go just a bit deeper, put a bit of glue on, build up with powdered antler filed off earlier, and add more regular superglue on top to solidify it. Let dry, sand down, no hole, no porous part, no can tell it wasn't that way to start with.

And if you think I'm going to leave the butt round, epoxy the medallion on as a buttplate, and file the antler down to match, you got it. Not true traditional on top of handle, but looks close to traditional on bottom of handle.
 
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