Chair chopping chipped chopper! Chakma challenged

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thombrogan

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We had a broken glider and I had only one of my khukuris, the 15" horn-handled Ang Khola, sharp enough to safely sliver my thumbnails.

We received a letter from our HMO saying that they weren't covering the anesthesia for my wife's emergency C-section because it was performed out of state (Live in NH, my HMO's in MA. BTW, I don't care if my insurance company is gay; it bothers me that it's cheap). So, in a fit of rage, I vacuumed the house and then took the broken glider down the hill to chop it up and place in our very long term compost pile.

Lemme tell ya: Junk made in Taiwan is not junk. Even when it's junk! The angle of my AK's edge was probably a sturdy 15-20 degrees and formed by using a 100 grit waterstone and polished with some .5 micron lapping film on a foam-taped block of wood. Evidently, that's too thin for laminated wood and the accompanying screws.

The chair died (strangely, I chopped faster and more accurately when exhausted; must've been the anger having already left me), but my khukuri needs extensive resharpening. The chakma did its best, but more needs to be done.

Moral to the story:
Destroying old chairs with a khukuri is fun!
 
Delta does devine duty doing de-dulling dirty deed done destroyers!
 
Enraged by equine excrement exemplar engaged exported effects en emergency exercises ?
 
The letter C, the letter D, the letter E... I'm begining to see a pattern here, and the next letter in the sequence is a definite no no.

For those who wish to be a bit risque, I just got email that Mustang Range is opening on June 12th.

Mustang Range
 
Fully fortified From Frothy foamed filth our figure fragmented fine furniture from far fields. forewarn fine forum?

Fatigued From Flinging Foul Fragments Forum's Fellow forewarned fine forum "Foresight forebears furniture's fostering failure from finis."

I like the second one better
 
For friendly fortune find fixable furniture for fending off forgetable fiends.
 
Must be the stuffed cabbage rolls...I've just been burping and farting... ;-)
 
Nasty said:
Must be the stuffed cabbage rolls...I've just been burping and farting... ;-)
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Could be.:D Tonight it was a roasted fresh pork shoulder with smashed taters, gravy, pickled beets, black olives and apple sauce.

And Barb bought the first edition of Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King for watching later.:D :cool:
We miss y'all Bro.:(
 
It irks me that Inyone in imitation of Iron Wheel or InJapanDanny would initiate incoming ideas in identical initial icons!
 
Nasty? Where did your folks come from to have recipes for toltott kaposta?

I hope those recipes were handed down from generation to generation and not taken out of some Betty Crocker type cookbook. If so, stick them up here so we can enjoy them too! It's not nice to hold out on your friends, understand?
 
DIJ,

Are you saying that you invented the alliteration? Thanks!

Nasty,

This Delta of which you speak... ...do you need to do anything to keep it from overheating the blade? In the videos, Dan seems to be sprinkling khukuris with water. Is that good horsesense or just a KamiKoster ritual?
 
Rusty said:
Nasty? Where did your folks come from to have recipes for toltott kaposta?QUOTE]Little Bro, these were homemade by Barb who did her usual bang up job. That's the reason for the roast pork tonight. We ate cabbage rolls 4 times in a row, just not for breakfast, although that would've been alright.:D ;)
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Yvsa - Ya'll can't be missing us too much, Bev and I have done nothing but talk about our visit and the great things you have both added to our lives. You *know* we'll be back physically...but we're still there every in other way!

Rusty - My family is English on my Dad's side, thus mostly boiled meat. My Mom's side though, includes Hungarian, Slovak and Gypsy so I was raised with all kinds of delicious foods! My good luck recently with the cabbage rolls is that Yvsa's *Darling* wife Barb has some Polish in her ancestry! For those who wonder, *yes*...she can cook to raise the barn! The next time you visit, try begging a bit Rusty... ;-)

Thombrogan - The Delta is a sort of hobbyist version of the professional level equipment Dan uses. I could overheat the blades, but with a gentle touch keep them cool. Occasionally, especially when working on reshaping a karda for example, I *do* quench as there is less metal to act as a heatsink and I don't want to mess up the heat treat nor melt the laha. If I were giving directions as Dan does, I would also emphasize the need to quench as he does. HE *is* correct...it takes just that little bit too warm to anneal (soften) the metal.

Bruise - Nothing to say, but *did* want to acknowledge that you're here! :-)
 
Let's see...Yvsa already did the H's, so that leaves me to take up the slack for Ferrous...

I...uh...I...um...Ill informed if iliterate idiots irrespectivley illustrate illustrious ire in ink.
 
Danny's discursive diatribe--delightful! Deviant diphthongs, didactic dactyls, dendritic dialectics, dapper diction, Dionysian dissonance, dystopian deductions--dude...

--Josh
 
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