CAK arrived yesterday

[Umi]

Outstanding craftmanship! Its raning today, i will post some pictures when my new boss arrives. I thought i would like the strong curve in my Thamar Tin Chirra more, but this feels great. I cant wait to chop up some invading trees.

 

[Dobe_1]

Waiting for those photos. Congrats.

 

[mtngunr]

The motto here should be "Imagine The Possibilities"

 

[Bawanna]

Outstanding craftmanship! Its raning today, i will post some pictures when my new boss arrives. I thought i would like the strong curve in my Thamar Tin Chirra more, but this feels great. I cant wait to chop up some invading trees.

For certain chores the straighter heavier blade will rule the day. Myself, my primary focus is looking cool at all times and in my case that means old school traditional. The Thamar wins the day everytime. It may not work as well in some instances but I look cooler doing it so that's all that really matters.

Not that I'm the least bit opposed to using all the other blades, certainly all beautiful and I generally try to grab the best option. Most unknowing (not smitten with the khukri fever) would know the difference anyway but I do and now you do.

 

[Seriousbladeno1]

Outstanding craftmanship! Its raning today, i will post some pictures when my new boss arrives. I thought i would like the strong curve in my Thamar Tin Chirra more, but this feels great. I cant wait to chop up some invading trees.

I know how you feel! Congrats to your new blade! CAK Is my favourite and also got one! Post few pics please

 

[T. C. Weston]

The CAK is a magnificent beast. Looking forward to some pics!

 

[Umi]

Ohh My. Magnum is all that and more. Pala is a bear! This knife is bigger than ginormus. Seems im going to have to do some therapy on the sheath, shes greedy or jealous, and wont give me the Magnum. All have to earn some trust. Photos as soon as i get home.

 

[snowwolf]

Ohh My. Magnum is all that and more. Pala is a bear! This knife is bigger than ginormus. Seems im going to have to do some therapy on the sheath, shes greedy or jealous, and wont give me the Magnum. All have to earn some trust. Photos as soon as i get home.

When you wrote sheath wont give the Magnum. It got me thinking.
Maybe you know this already but just in case...

Source
http://www.himalayan-imports.com/SafteyIndex.html

DO - Don't - Or Else

 

[Umi]

TY snow, i am being very carful. Photos didnt post - but i have read the sticky about not putting fingers around the sheath. I hope that wasn't you with the palm or leg frankenstein work.

I will be reading about a tight sheath fix next.

Edit: i see you fixed the pics [emoji106][emoji106]

 

[snowwolf]

I often have problems when I use a link and store the pics locally the [attachment] tag doesn't display properly.

And no, wasn't me who got cut.

I give this advice each time I show a Kuk to friends. Still, many will unsheathe it dangerously regardless.
To a point where I prefer to unsheathe it myself and hand over the kuk to them.

On all the Kuks I own, only one cut thru the leather while pulling it out of the sheathe. I was happy to hold it properly.
But I try to follow the curve of the blade. I guess it could happen easily if someone is pulling straight out while holding the sheathe firmly.

 

[Umi]

Good advice, i will hand them the blade, unsheathing it myself.

After a hour or more polishing, and honing the blade, i eagerly took her outside, to a 3+" tree in need of removal. I practiced the swing slowly, and felt comfortable even magnum would not go thru this. I thought about recording it, saying :
"WATCH THIS!"

I wish i had.

She did not cut thru, but with 4lbs of steel, after cutting better than 1/2 way thru, broke the remaining trunk, then cut in half the head of a cement statue of pan playing his flute. There is hardly no damage to the blade, save a roll less than 1/64". There is a visible mark, but i cant feel it. I would love to show the carnage, but its dark and raining now. I did find a few more victims, same occurrence. Either cuts thru, or breaks the remainder. Magnum always follows thru. I will try bigger stock morrow, ifin ims not too sore.

, Here is Thamar's TC, Magnum AK, and her lil sis CAK.

My arm not long enough for a selfie with MAK

The scar on MAK from pan

The roll on MAK

Polish on MAK showing CAK

CAK still untested

CAK showing the grain of TC

Time to put them away before i have to go in the dog house.

Ill show Pan morrow in daylight, if he dosent come strike me down tonight.

 

[Umi]

I figured out if i loosen the chakma first, Magnum slides right out [emoji106]

 

[Umi]

Most unknowing (not smitten with the khukri fever) would know the difference anyway but I do and now you do.

I have been into knives for 40+ years. Folders, fixed, throwers, and machetes mostly. Havent made any new purchases in close to 10 years, and am known to put a keen edge on friends blades now and then. So This fella gives me a battleMistress that he must have been chopping cinderblocks with. Goes on about how easy to work yet strong the infi steel is blah blah. "Looks like a big kitchen knife to me," and had to get pretty aggressive on it, easy to work or not. That night, i looked up busse's infi, and the first thing to pop up is a utube comparison of his BattleMistress, and a HI CAK. I was immediately "smitten" with HI. Ima guessin yall already done figured that last bit.

Ironically,

Myself, my primary focus is looking cool at all times and in my case that means old school traditional. The Thamar wins the day everytime. It may not work as well in some instances but I look cooler doing it so that's all that matters
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By the time he picks up his BM, i hand him my TTC, saying in crocodile Dundee fashion, "now thats a knife."
Even as dorked out as that sounds, that TCC had me looking smoother than the Fonz.
You should have seen his jaw. It reminded me of the zombies in "I Am Legend." I would be shocked if he dosent have one or more soon.

if it wasn't for him and his Busse BM, myself, and hisself would not have gotten the HI bug, at least not now.

 

[snowwolf]

Thanks for the pics.

Now I'm not sure I understand the whole story.

"She did not cut thru, but with 4lbs of steel, after cutting better than 1/2 way thru, broke the remaining trunk, then cut in half the head of a cement statue of pan playing his flute. "

Was every thing on purpose or the last part was just the blade having fun on its own after you cranked it a little too much?

 

[Umi]

You are correct Sir, on the latter. MAK having fun with my follow thru. The area is overgrown, and i couldnt see the statue, only a little over 2' tall, er, ah, Now a little under 2' tall. [emoji16]

Not having any blades of this mass, I havent experienced this before. Maybe ill put that story in a new thread, so other inexperienced folk might gleam a notion.

 

[snowwolf]

You are correct Sir, on the latter. MAK having fun with my follow thru. The area is overgrown, and i couldnt see the statue, only a little over 2' tall, er, ah, Now a little under 2' tall. [emoji16]

Not having any blades of this mass, I havent experienced this before. Maybe ill put that story in a new thread, so other inexperienced folk might gleam a notion.

Glad you are ok.

Well... I think we all scared ourselves one way or another with our sharp tools. There's few things that can go wrong - bounce back, twist in hand, slide and deviate, etc...
Like every thing else, control comes with experience. You just have to go progressively.

My first Kuk was a 20 inch AK. Beautiful piece but horrible choice to begin with.
So I bought another one (smaller) and easier to handle, then another one, little bit bigger and that was it - The HIKV disease stroke me big time.

 

[mtngunr]

Hey y'all...watch THIS!!!!

If it had been down here, alcohol and loaded firearms would have played into this as an old southern tradition......you had me rolling with the story....funny and told even funnier, ah, the carnage.....yes, swords pretty much do their own thing once they get moving, and what they don't cut, they break. Glad the Magnum only slightly worse for wear....we lack'em tough round these parts....

I will not go on about name brand steels, especially back when introduced except to point out none of the businesses have their own smelting operations, buy off the rack, and maybe do their own heat treat....

I think you have already found out a "primitive" knife shows pretty good to highly hyped....i never kid when i say if i deployed again, it would be with another HI knife over most any of my "name" handforged except in cases of just needing something smaller...they are tough the way a knife needs to be tough in a combat zone, take a lickin' and keep on tickin' rather than kaTINK!, "oh i KNEW i shouldn't have tried that with this knife."

 

[Umi]

Thanks for reading thru, and seeing the humor mtngunr. Im in the south, and there are always loads of weapons around. Luckily i was dead sober. I dont think ill mix MAK and drink until i truly know her. I have too much respect for her, my legs, and hidden lawn art! Pan was a relic in third generation. It had nice detail, and who wouldnt like a effigy to song, drink, dance, and gettin nekkid?!?

I could not get a good pic of pan decapitated in the bush, so i pulled him out.

Been too busy today to wack away, but feel up to it. Maybe ill get in a spell tomorrow.

 

[mtngunr]

Looks more as a cherubic Bacchus and your Magnum warning you against mixing drink with it in a most graphic way....heck of a blade to take on a member of the pantheon without a moment's hesitation....it's a pal you certainly can trust....

 

[Umi]

Wow- i didnt thunk of it that way, now im definitely going to start a new thread. Thanks