A nephew sent these pix for your comments.

[notareus]

Glad u like it Yvsa. japanese blades usually dun come this cheap, especially with all the hada activity on it and sanmai construction. Japanese kitchen cutlery are scarily sharp( especially their yanagiba and deba which is chisel ground to half the already fine edge on one side this construction means that while its very very sharp and hold their edge well, the very fine ones like the yanagiba are not meant for slicing through bones (law of phsics i guess), but it goes thru flesh like nothing, thus they are usually used for sashimi. another negative thing is that most of them rust or patinate so maintaining them is a hassel but the effort is well worth the type of cuts u can get with these type of blades. these are a few polishing pics to bring out the hada. sorry uncle bill, just wanted to show the activities that all, no offense meant.


and here
polishing

 

[Blues]

Great pix and blades, Notareus.

Howard Clark's work is great. (He's a funny SOB too, but that's a different story. )

Thanks for sharing.

Blues

 

[Bill Martino]

Thanks for good and interesting stuff.

 

[Spectre]

I was commenting that the HANDLE might be forged aluminum, a la Dale Sandberg.

 

[Bill Martino]

ok

 

[Black Bear]

Morning all, I really like this one nicely shaped, looks like it would handle quite well too. I believe the handle covering is a much finer cord than paracord, and then coated with tinted and thinned epoxy. It looks a lot like blow gun darts I used to make in the army when things were slow. I would use a piece of conduit for the pipe and welding rod sharpened for the dart. then at the back end wind heavy string around the rod coating it with Permatex(gasket sealer)forming a football shape that would seal to the size of my blow pipe.AHH those were the days.See Ya 1

 

[Bill Martino]

I've made similar blowguns, BB, but my darts were a little different. I used a piece of wood dowel for the body, drilled a hole in the front end for a refashioned nail to fit in, used thin plastic sheet rolled into a cone and glued to dowel. A little light but fast and very accurate unless a strong wind was blowing.

 

[leo2]

Thank you for the pix of the khukuri with the aluminum & paracord handle. The work is by Dale Sandberg. His shop is called "Eight Dollar Mountain Foundry," from Oregon. I don't have the whole web address handy at the moment, I just key EDMF into a search engine and cross my fingers. I just checked the EDMF website this weekend, by chance, and found plenty of good stuff.
Best
Leo

 

[Rusty]

http://www.edmfknives.com/

 

[Bill Martino]

Thanks for good help, Rusty.

 

[Rusty]

Completely new web site since the last time I looked several months ago. Apparently about $40 to put a cast handle on your blade + $8 shipping ( probably higher for heavier khuks.

A WWI bayonet with 16/18" blade, sent in for a D guard handle could be interesting.

Or for those who've wanted a khanjarlis, send them a 20" sirupati to put a D guard handle on?

Most of their whole knives run around $90.

And smatchets with 10" or 11 1/2" blades.

Wonder if they'd sell just the blades? The Bobby James bowie blade looks neat.

Oh well, too many HI's yet to acquire first.

 

[Spectre]

If I get a larger villager, I'll get Dale to put a handle on mine when original fails.

 

[Bill Martino]

Chances are you'll have a hard time making that handle fail. Take a look at the test Chris put his ugly villager thru. That was a partial tang, too. The full length tangs, tho not pretty, are quite strong.