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From 11/12 DOD.
Wow, what a good feel in the hand. A good hearty feel, not heavy though. Fine balance and well put together.
I wonder if Sir Wharncliffe ever traveled to the Gool region in Nepal. I can't imagine what a hand forged, high and tight knife like this would run domestically. Holly picked this beauty as she remembered this design is good for carving and whittling. I used it to carve some designs on the top of some walking staffs for xmas. ( ok...I broke the last digi camera
and I am buying Holly a new one for xmas, there will eventually be pics...sorry )
The surprise came when I was up on the roof making some shingle repairs before the white hell that is western new york snow arrives in force. I forgot my shingle cutter on the ground, and being the lazy person I am I used my new Bura Gool-cliffe to cut tar paper and score some hi quality shingles. I thought i'd have to score and bend em, but it just cut right through em. With the out of the triangle-box edge. No dulling, went back to carving later. :thumbup:
Hol also squirreled away the wonderful grand Baby Chit from the other day DOD for our youngest daughter( she already absolutely loves the kagan katne mom gave her, she helps me skin the varmints we hunt so she's a real knife user )
Seems to be some sort of family addiction developing.
Also (hoping it's not sacriligious), I was repairing some fencing where our kids ride horses and I use the cho on my WWII 17" to snap fence wire, worked better than those silly bayonet-scabbard deelies.
Light and Thanks to all here,
mark
Wow, what a good feel in the hand. A good hearty feel, not heavy though. Fine balance and well put together.
I wonder if Sir Wharncliffe ever traveled to the Gool region in Nepal. I can't imagine what a hand forged, high and tight knife like this would run domestically. Holly picked this beauty as she remembered this design is good for carving and whittling. I used it to carve some designs on the top of some walking staffs for xmas. ( ok...I broke the last digi camera
and I am buying Holly a new one for xmas, there will eventually be pics...sorry )The surprise came when I was up on the roof making some shingle repairs before the white hell that is western new york snow arrives in force. I forgot my shingle cutter on the ground, and being the lazy person I am I used my new Bura Gool-cliffe to cut tar paper and score some hi quality shingles. I thought i'd have to score and bend em, but it just cut right through em. With the out of the triangle-box edge. No dulling, went back to carving later. :thumbup:
Hol also squirreled away the wonderful grand Baby Chit from the other day DOD for our youngest daughter( she already absolutely loves the kagan katne mom gave her, she helps me skin the varmints we hunt so she's a real knife user )
Seems to be some sort of family addiction developing.
Also (hoping it's not sacriligious), I was repairing some fencing where our kids ride horses and I use the cho on my WWII 17" to snap fence wire, worked better than those silly bayonet-scabbard deelies.
Light and Thanks to all here,
mark
