April

[John Powell]

a nice janawar katne c1880-1920 with gold wash designs on a blued blade, bone lozenges inset on the walnut grip in a well carved and decorated scabbard. 26.5" 2lbs 4oz

 

[Mr.BadExample]

Wow, that's a real beauty!

 

[Thomas Linton]

Handsome blade, John.

 

[Dave Rishar]

Image set as wallpaper, John. Thanks for the pic.

 

[etp777]

Absolutely gorgeous, both the khuk an the scabbard. Perfect picture to offset birthday of one ugly mug this month. Namely, mine.

 

[Svashtar]

Beautiful blade John! The level of work that went into that is astounding. I can only imagine what it must have looked like at the turn of the century; must have been spectacular. I wonder really if there is anyone today still doing that high level of custom work on khuks?

Thanks for sharing.

Norm

 

[Ad Astra]

JP, your calendar artwork is the best.

Thanks again.


Ad Astra

 

[DannyinJapan]

it looks sirupati-ish.... how do you tell the difference?

 

[Howard Wallace]

it looks sirupati-ish.... how do you tell the difference?

Sirupati is like Twiggy. This one is more like Marilyn.