burnisher, sharpening

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Hi everyone my name is Anthony and I bought an Ang Khola in August. Needless to say it was a great investment. My questions is, How do you use the burnisher? and what kinds of sharpening stone(s) do you guys carry for the occasional ding/dullness?
 
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Just bringing this back up for new Khukuri owners.
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Also wanted to let y'all know I finally finished my round leather mounted dowel strop.
I had a 1" dowel left over from some project and I had some old very rough back split leather.I cut a piece of the leather to fit around the dowel and a good foot long.I glued it around the dowel and then rubbed it down with some buffing compound.
I can now say ALL my Khukuris are "Full body shiver" sharp.
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It really does work nice on the recurve.

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Cornbread ain't s'possed ta be sweet!....Dagnabit gurl,whut did they teach you way up north in ....
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[This message has been edited by Yvsa (edited 21 September 1999).]
 
Hey, Yvsa, maybe after I get my 58 1/2" two hander blueprinted I'll send it your way for the final touch for the 45" double-edged blade. This is the one where I put the tip in the dirt and then have to stretch tippy-toe to hook my nose over the pommel. I'm 5'4" and it's 4'10 1/2". I'm sure you could do it in no time at all - there's only 90" to put the ultimate edge on. LOL
 
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Day-um Rusty.
LMAO.I had to go get my tape
measure.
A two handed 58 1/2" Suh-ward.With a 45" d'ble edged blade.How wide is she and how far down is she fullered?
One fuller or multiple fullers?

Well bein a good Okie an an Indin I think we can fix y'all right up.
I can still get powder poles up around Spavinaw and Eucha I think.
Then a stop at Midcontinent Leather fer some goot hide and I think we can fix ya up with a strop suitable fer such a beautiful lady.

Ye know if she wuz much tallerer and ye wuz nose to nose ya wuld have yer toes in (it) and if ye wuz toes to toes.....VBESEG.

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Cornbread ain't s'possed ta be sweet!....Dagnabit gurl,whut did they teach you way up north in ....;) hehehe.


 
Yvsa, go to

1) My Two Hander - go to: http://stores.mindspring.com/cgi-bin/www11650.storefront
Click on Swords and Daggers
Click on Swords
Click 3 or 4 more times til you get to the 40's - the Ravenna is #42, second from top of page.

2) My Hand-and-a-half - go to:
http://christianfletcher.com/html/clothesset.html
Click on Del Tin Swords. When that has loaded, click on 14th century. The second from the top will be DT2142/Hand-and-a-half. Click on the "Hand-and-a-half" for more info.

The two hander was made in India. Blade diamond shaped, no fuller. Edges need to be trued, guard is brass underneath black paint.
Pommel is steel under black paint. Handle wide and flat on sides. True the blade, polish brass guard, slim down and rewrap handle, and brown the pommel. Lot of work, but can be salvaged. Think of 4 Roses or Old Crow whiskey.

The Hand-and-a-half is an Italian Del Tin. Fitted like a Colt Python. Think of Hennessey VSOP Reserve Cognac or a single malt Scotch.

Sorry, Uncle Bill, I'm trying to persuade myself to appreciate what I already have til the start of next month. Switch my membership from the Khukuri of the Week Club to the Khukuri of the Month Club.

Oh yes, Yvsa, almost forgot... I'm 5'4" tall, the 2 hander is 4'10 1/2" tall, and my wife is 4'11 1/2" tall. Just something to think about.

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Thanks Rusty.I will go look.I have seen the hand and a half when we was talkin about those ones Uncle keeps ignoreing us about.vbeg.

Dave K:
I have always found the God(s) to be so.;-§)
I only think that powder poles may still be availible up in that area of Okla.They used to do a lot of quarry work and mining up around those areas.The pwder poles were used to push the dynamite into the drilled holes for cutting the rock.A Black locust pole some 25 foot long is something to behold.
One that long was about 1 1/4" in dia.Many of the good Indin folk up around there use 'em for "Gig" handles and to push the flat bottomed skiffs along the crystal clear streams that still run there.
Giging fish is still legal here for all the rough fish like carp,buffalo,suckers,all flathead catfish,and Blue catfish over 5 Lbs.
There was one taken up at what is called "The Blue Hole" on Saline Creek that went a tad over 120 Lbs.
Wehave a sucker fish here that in the clear streams where they live are to die for.
I would rather have one of them fried up nice and brown than any Rainbow trout I ever et.
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Cornbread ain't s'possed ta be sweet!....Dagnabit gurl,whut did they teach you way up north in ....;) hehehe.


 
I've been away a long time, Yvsa. I have not heard that expression "gigging fish" for I'll bet 30 years. It was legal just about everywhere when I was a kid -- or at least I didn't know any better at the time.

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Himalayan Imports Website
http://members.aol.com/himimp/index.html
 
I`m a powder monkey.Mine are marked off with elec.tape in feet.For gigging,I use a different thing,powder will work for that as well.Thank you Alfred Nobel for making my life easier.I`d be poor indeed without dynamite.

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Ghostsir:
Are you that fellow I keep hearing about that took the Game Warden fishing and handed him a stick of dynamite with the fuse lit on the cap and asked him if he was gonna talk or if he was gonna ........
fish? (vbeseg)

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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
Cornbread ain't s'possed ta be sweet!....Dagnabit gurl,whut did they teach you way up north in ....;) hehehe.


 
What is the sucker fish's name english/latin?
Pyramid Lake has the cui ui, which is a sucker. I know the Pyramid Paiutes used to eat them as well as the Lahontan Cutthroat. Then in the early part of the century they commercial fished the whole thing about out. One tackle shop around here has the jaws of a German Brown at least 7" or 8" wide. Walker Lake used to be good for big fish, but it's too salty for fish except the upper half. I don't think they've taken anything bigger than 5 or 6 pounds in over 20 years.
 
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Rusty the only thing I have heard them called is suckers.The local fishermen have a name for them too,but I ain't gonna write it here.

When we lived in Montana in '46,'47 there were trout in the little creeks running across the pastures.
I caught my first one out of a creek that was maybe 5 foot wide at its widest and many places I could jump it.There was a big creek that ran behind our place.The people down the road had a room built out over it and had a wire box the would lower into the creek for use as a icebox.

The man that lived up the road and across the big creek had a fox farm.
He had a very nice butchering room and cold storage.I went over there one day on anerrand for mom and Lucky was out at the butcher shop.
I went in and had a terrible scare.
He always got his animal and his wifes during hunting season,that's why he was called lucky.He had been bear hunting and that's what he had layed out on this huge butcher block.It looked like a big headless man laying there without his hands and feet too.
We fished the upper and lower Gallatin and I think the Missouri?
There was another river too,but I don't remember its name.Oh,I think it was the Three Forks River.I was pretty young.
We trailed one another up and down the banks by the mounds of suckers laying on the bank.

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Cornbread ain't s'possed ta be sweet!....Dagnabit gurl,whut did they teach you way up north in ....;) hehehe.


 
Yvsa - couple of years back we had some BIG goings on at the dump when they discovered a body. After a while, someone figured out it wasn't a human body, but a bear. The local taxidermist had mounted one, then taken the bones out to the dump and you can guess what hit the fan. As I recall, it was a pompous jerk who did the investigating for the Sheriff's Office at the time and always took himself so seriously that ended up with egg on his face.
 
We have a fish we call suckers where I live, too, but most people don't eat them.... Last spring a local fellow noticed a little brook was full of enormous suckers -- they swam up the brook from the lake to spawn, I guess. There were so many of them it seemed like there were more fish than water in that little brook, and seeing all those big fish excited his predatory instincts and he lashed his khukuri to a stick to make a fish spear. (See -- I can stay on topic! Not like some people around here....
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) He speared the suckers and threw them into a pile beside the brook, and his cries of triumph at each fish he speared attracted more people, who also lashed their khukuris to sticks and began spearing suckers themselves. (Okay, I admit it, we didn't all have khukuris -- but we used knives! So I'm almost on topic ... a bowie knife is almost a khukuri ... just imagine a khukuri that got straightened out by accident somehow, and acquired a sharp back edge when the owner tried to sharpen it after one too many glasses of Khukuri Rum ...) Their cries of triumph attracted even more spear-fisherman, and soon the whole town was at it.

By the end of the day we had piles of fish we couldn't believe! But what to do with them? We tried frying them ... they tasted terrible. We tried baking them, roasting them, broiling them, poaching them ... poached sucker wasn't as bad as the others, but that was about all anybody could say in favor of poaching.... Finally Old Mrs. Spooner said when she was a girl she had heard sucker was a good eating fish if you cooked it right -- she had heard the way to cook it was to take the fish whole, don't even clean it, and pack it in cow manure at least an inch (25mm) thick and put it in the hot coals of a campfire for about an hour, and the cow manure would absorb all the bad taste and when the cow manure was as hard as a rock the fish was ready to eat; just rake it out of the fire and bash at the hardened manure with a hammer or a rock or the pommel of your bowie knife^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H khukuri and it would fall all to pieces and reveal the succulent fish inside.

Well, to tell you the truth, even cooked that way the suckers weren't really what you would call edible ... but the cow manure wasn't bad at all!

-Cougar Allen :{)

P.S. I have set up a sophisticated filter program to bounce all mailbombs for the next few days, so don't even bother trying....

-Cougar :{)
 
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