Bought me a dha

bargs said:
thems nice blades everybody,passed up one of these at a flea market,didnt know what it was,i do know..still searchin for a enep too.
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i'd like to come across an enep too. HI makes (or made) a nice copy of a hmong knife that was made by a vietnamese forumite here, i'd love one! it's similar to the enep.

HI 'Friendship knife'

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I'm tempted to buy an enep blade (and maybe a Latin machete. And an etoh) from Aranyik (the person not the town) and throw a handle on it myself, but it sounds like he'll be selling complete ones in the coming months.
 
would anyone like to organize a robbery of kronk?-- kronk just bring yourself and your entire knife collection to this abandoned parking lot....

also is there any reputable dealer of aranyik steel akin to HI ? or do you have to pretty much go yourself to get a legit blade?
 
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There is, but I shant link to a non-Blade Forums authorized seller as I don't want be smoted (smited? smitten?) by the forums gods. They don't sell dhas or other weapons as far as I know, just machete and khukri style outdoor tools. They do sell a Latin Machete which looks similar to a dha from a distance.

Keep in mind dhas have super tiny tangs, small even by hidden tang standards. So don't expect to use it for clearing brush or anything like that. It sounds like the blacksmiths are happy to make you one with a bigger tang like they did for Kronckew though.
 
yeah its just a really great architecture to the blade and scabbard, I really like, I am trying to talk auntie into getting kamis to make a HI version, because I really really like the traditional style, dont really want a aranyik machete and since I already trust kamis would just like them to do it .

Plus i dont travel as animals and business demand me never leaving town, so again, the trust thing, even if I found someone willing to sell a "dha" i could never depend on them like I can HI. other than antiques of course, but those are pretty damn expensive, even if very pretty
 
Gehazi said:
would anyone like to organize a robbery of kronk?-...
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WARNING LABEL:
Please be advised that my premises may contain nuts. anyone entering without invitation may be consumed by wild animals.
or the resident human. hidden trip hazards abound and anyone falling may land on a sharp pointy object. a sharp pointy object may land on you at any time.
anyone bleeding on the premises may be charged for forensic clean-up and disposal of extraneous severed body parts.

also be advised the local sheriff is a cousin, the judge is my bother, and the prosecutor is my son. the last car thief in our county got life for stealing a car. the judge wanted to hang him, as it was his car, but we talked him into leniency. didn't help tho. he committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. we're still tryin' to figure out how he did it with his hands and feet handcuffed behind his back. ah, well THAT didn't matter either, as he'd made sure of it by shooting himself in the back with a shotgun from 20 ft. away, managed that without leaven any finger prints too.

p.s. - watch out for the clamores. and yes, that is det cord runnin in the ditches alongside the road, justincase anyone has any ideas of ambushin' from there.

good luck, y'all. gotta go now. the lion is hungry and his food is screaming. might wake up the neighbors if there were any within 20 miles. there ain't. just trees, bottomless lakes and lots of swamp and water moccasins. no allygators tho. the piranha et them all. even the dire wolves won't go in the water no more after they et the sabre tooth.
 
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my cozun daarb from aranyik tangs:

the larger one:
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the smaller one:
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mr. cozun had them make the smaller one with two pins, it was the first one they made like that. now a std. option, or it was. he seems to have gone out of business. aranyik is still there tho ;)
 
kronckew said:
WARNING LABEL:
Please be advised that my premises may contain nuts. anyone entering without invitation may be consumed by wild animals.
or the resident human. hidden trip hazards abound and anyone falling may land on a sharp pointy object. a sharp pointy object may land on you at any time.
anyone bleeding on the premises may be charged for forensic clean-up and disposal of extraneous severed body parts.

also be advised the local sheriff is a cousin, the judge is my bother, and the prosecutor is my son. the last car thief in our county got life for stealing a car. the judge wanted to hang him, as it was his car, but we talked him into leniency. didn't help tho. he committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. we're still tryin' to figure out how he did it with his hands and feet handcuffed behind his back. ah, well THAT didn't matter either, as he'd made sure of it by shooting himself in the back with a shotgun from 20 ft. away, managed that without leaven any finger prints too.

p.s. - watch out for the clamores. and yes, that is det cord runnin in the ditches alongside the road, justincase anyone has any ideas of ambushin' from there.

good luck, y'all. gotta go now. the lion is hungry and his food is screaming. might wake up the neighbors if there were any within 20 miles. there ain't. just trees, bottomless lakes and lots of swamp and water moccasins. no allygators tho. the piranha et them all. even the dire wolves won't go in the water no more after they et the sabre tooth.
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This post just absolutely made my day. I'm smiling ear to ear with all 6 of my teeth a showing.

Gehazi, I know I offered to ride with ya on this venture but now.......well I'm out!!!! Best of luck to ya, and do be watching that det cord.

I would be on board with a prearranged nice show and tell afternoon provided we do it on neutral ground. I don't want to even take a chance of kronckew forgetting to turn something off or forgetting some man eating animal. And if I see handcuffs I'm runnning (well rolling) for my life......................
 
there is very little that a pound of c4 won't cure. the heck with gibbs' rules. kroncke's rule no. 1 is "walk softly and carry a big knife". (teddy roosevelt made me do it)

any resemblance between me and teddy is a pure coinkydense.
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besides, this is the guy we outta go after: Mark Bowditch's DHA research ref. site
(he is NOT a vendor) i am but a minor member of the dhafia, he is the godfather.

p.s. - click the photos on his index for full info on each sword. some of these will blow your mind.
scroll to the bottom for some links to other parts with narrative.
 
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it's amazing what good plastic surgeons can do nowadays. i couldn't afford a good one.
my dogs love me tho. my ex wives could only stand so much.
 
this is exactly why i wanted kronk to bring his entire collection to an abandoned parking lot omg

totally with you on a dha hiest of the man himself , bam its on, lake's half dozen-- seriously though, dha blades are fascinating, the whole blade culture of indonesia is pretty amazing
 
Man I was just starting to feel like I knew a little about Khukris and now dha's! Those are sweet blades and plenty of them. If yall dont hear from me for a while you know where I am! They're choppers too?
Im with ya Gehazi. If we come bearing gifts of steel and baskets of meat maybe he will call of the Dire wolves at least?

kronckew said:
there is very little that a pound of c4 won't cure. the heck with gibbs' rules. kroncke's rule no. 1 is "walk softly and carry a big knife". (teddy roosevelt made me do it)

any resemblance between me and teddy is a pure coinkydense.
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besides, this is the guy we outta go after: Mark Bowditch's DHA research ref. site
(he is NOT a vendor) i am but a minor member of the dhafia, he is the godfather.

p.s. - click the photos on his index for full info on each sword. some of these will blow your mind.
scroll to the bottom for some links to other parts with narrative.
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ndoghouse said:
... If we come bearing gifts of steel and baskets of meat maybe he will call of the Dire wolves at least?
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possible. actually i'm in between dire wolves at the moment, hoping to get a new one for the pack in january. not much i can do about the piranha tho, so no splashing in puddles.
 
ndoghouse said:
Man I was just starting to feel like I knew a little about Khukris and now dha's! Those are sweet blades and plenty of them. If yall dont hear from me for a while you know where I am! They're choppers too?
Im with ya Gehazi. If we come bearing gifts of steel and baskets of meat maybe he will call of the Dire wolves at least?
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Before you go ndog ya might remind your missus about leaving me your Giant Chitlangi. I of course wish no violent or painful death upon you but if your going into the lions den, it's something maybe she should know. Ya know?
I wish you the best and pictures if you live.
 
I fully support moats and bridges as well as packs of semi wild animals to defend a hold.
 
I really don't know anything about the Dha. The Brits issued a "Dha" during WWII, but for all intents and purposes it appeared to be a squared off machete. The native Dha seem like a wide-ish, yet still slender bladed sword. I found this bit of Dha trivia in a book called SPEARHEAD, which is a complete history of Merrill's Marauder Rangers. They fought in WWII Burma working with Gurkhas and Katchins. The Marauders were issued British Mk. II khukuri, being the only American military unit I know of being issued khukuri. They found the khukuri more useful than a machete, but both inferior to the Dha.

The book had this to say:
SPEARHEAD pg. 756, Appendix IV “Notes on Jungle Warfare”
“8. In the jungle a kukri or machete is about fifty percent as useful as the dah.”
 
those long hafted ones I have seen called "Siamese Dharb" I am guessing Dharb is just a variant on the Dha word for knife. I mainly see dha in reference to the small knives and the longer hafted "temple swords" I see called "dharb, dhaw" -- but still , really amazing blade culture in the archipeligo, been researching the ancient history and its pretty cool, I wonder how much influence islam had on the animistic culture, or how much of the steel working and blade spirit ideas were around before the muslims, or if they came with the concept of magic that existed in medieval islam , that is the magic of words and numbers "names of god"

very cool stuff, really appreciate the OP , I have found a whole new habit.
 
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