Ah, I remember it like it was yesterday...:)

MauiRob

MauiRob

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I just searched the archives to see what my first post was, and when it was. Brought back alot of memories, good and bad. Mostly good:)

Here it is:
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12-28-99

New 20" AK

Uncle Bill,

On my second day of using the 20" AK, and already have blisters on 2 fingers! Not from poor handle design, but more from Chopping madness the big AK produced!
Anyway thanks to you and the Kamis for such a great blade.

Aloha!

Rob
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Anybody else checked out their first posts, or am I just strange
:D Go ahead, you can say it:D

Rob
 
You are strange :D Someone had to say it :):D hehe.

I remember my first post. It didn't make much sense and I don't want to look back. Actually, my posts generally don't make any sense. With this theory, all my old posts would therefore be "literary classics". :p
 
Much more important than the very 1st post and made 10 whole days afterwards!!!!

Although if anyone's interested in the 1st one it can be found here on the 3rd page. Can anyone believe I waited 3 whole days before I made my 1st post after registering?:D

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=975533#post975533

Yes!!! I got mine today.

I had just laid down for a nap,of all days to be kind of down.:(
Anyways I had just dozed off and there was a tap at the door. I knew who and what that was!!:)
I liked to have stumbled over my feet getting there.

I was patient also.After unwrapping and checking out the fine scabbard I pulled out the chakma and karda,not bad,the chakma was sharp on the end.I pulled out the 15" Ang Khola payng attention to all the warnings and what a knife!!

After fondleing it and looking at the differences between it and my old India Kukri I took it out back.It does the job well.
Now guys get this.
I really wanted an 18" Ang Khola.
Bill went ahead and sent me this one to see how I would like it.
It is everything that I expected.
It is a little bit light for me as I am pretty good sized.:)

My Sweety came home and I was showing it to her and the differences between it and the old India one. I told her I liked it,but really wanted the 18" one.
"She said what will you do with this one."
I said."I thought I would give it to you." as she was standing there holding it with a smirky smile.:)
She said."ALLRIGHT !! "

Uncle Bill I will be wanting an 18" Ang Khola after the first of next month when my check gets here.In the meantime I will "borrow" Barbies knife.:)


Thanks much Uncle Bill !!
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Yvsa

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05-27-1999 05:18 PM

And here's the thread when I got my famous 18" AK.;)
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=977203#post977203

It was a lot longer time than I remember and reading the old posts made me stop and think that I did start collecting early
on.:rolleyes:
I had forgotten that I got my Hanuman Special before I got my AK!!!!
 
This is from 8/16/99, just after getting my first khuk:
16.5" Village Sirupati
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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Originally posted by Bill Martino
Interesting to go back.
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For anyone who's interested you can read Uncle Bill's 1st post here on Bladeforums.com.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=125156

On the 17th of this month it will mark my 2 year, 6 month anniversary at Bladeforums and H.I.
I wish now that I had kept a journal on my H.I.Khukuri purchaseing, but I didn't and I'm way to lazy to go back and check to see when I got each one of my 30 some odd H.I.Khukuri's.
Something all you younger guys and new members might consider doing just in case you hang out here as long as some of us old timers have.;)

In the 2 years and 6 months I have came from being a new customer to proudly being one of Uncle Bill's Bro's.
Bro and Yangdu have now stayed at our place twice and are always welcome here, even if we're not at home and off cruisein' around the US at our kid's place's.
We can always leave a key with the neighbor's if we know they're gonna be here when we aren't.:)
Not many people have that privelige, even some of the rest of Barb's and my family that are close blood kin.;)
Rusty our younger and smaller Bro has been around the H.I.Forum longer than I have.
There's also a few others that were here before me as well. Cliff Stamp being one.
There's been a lot of great guys come and go and sometimes after a long absence still comes by occasionally to say, "Hello.":)

This forum and the company here has been a real boon for me. The forum keeps me company on days that I can't be about the things I would wish. And out of the 4,055 posts I have made, counting this one, the majority have been made here.
That's scary as wordy as I tend to be and especially with an over abundance of smilies.:D
(Really!!!! I do know how I am!!!!!!!:rolleyes: :p )
(Not many people besides me know that you can safely use 9 smilies without blowing the bot's mind, or yet again I may just have special privliges.;-) )

This thread that Rob so thoughtfully started has gotten me to thinking it would be really wonderful if all the old forumites that used to hang here almost as much as I do now would come by and at least say, "Hello." I believe it would make for a great thread!!!!

The forum here and across the trail so to speak have wonderful archives crammed full of information and beautiful pix of some dayumed pretty khukuris.
Well worth reading!!!!

If one could somehow magically gather all of the posts, including the archives, in both forums and compile them into a book it may even somewhat compare with the book John Powell is trying to write in what time he has.
Perhaps if I dare, and I do,:p a magical book made from all the forum posts and John's book would compliment and enrich one and
another.:D
I'm really proud to be allowed to hang out here with most of the best forumites on bladeforums!!!!
Y'all have enriched my life........
 
it would be really wonderful if all the old forumites that used to hang here almost as much as I do now would come by and at least say, "Hello." I believe it would make for a great thread!!!!
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I second that idea. Yvsa, do you think a thread titled something like "calling all original HI forumites", or something along those lines would get them back? Maybe we'd have to email some that don't browse the forum anymore. At any rate, I think it would be great. I miss those guys. OH! My 2 year anniversary on HI forum will be coming up on December 28, 2001!! I would accept that khukuri that John Powell posted most recently as a present;) :p JUST KIDDING! I've seen what can happen when people post stuff like that in the
past:eek:

BTW, in case anyone out there is adding up the dates, I had an identity crises when I first moved to Maine and changed my screen name to RobP. or something like that. I then realized that alot of folks didn't know who the heck I was. I lost my original Dec.1999 registration date:( ;)
 
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