Bawanna
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Pretty quiet round here of late, thought I'd share the bounty of a conspiracy conspired by my wife and Yangdu.
Wife who is very good at thinking up great Christmas gifts acted like she was stuck (a façade I should have seen right through) but I told her if she was stuck and really wanted an idea, just send whatever you want to spend to Yangdu and have her send something. She asked which one, told her it don't matter none at all, it'll be good no matter what it might be.
Well about 3 weeks ago I got a nice Foxy Folly sent from Auntie and inside was another knife but had Irene (my wife's) name on it. So I gave it to her unopened but she refused to open it. Said she'd wait till Christmas, I told her no need for that, just open it but she wouldn't budge. I was dying with anticipation (for her of course) since I couldn't really tell through the paper what it was. Tried the whole time to get her to open it to no avail.
Well come Christmas morning lo and behold I unwrap a package that I didn't even recognize as a khuk, used to the triangle box I guess. Well I get the wrapping paper off and I see the newspaper and it's still got Irene's name on it. So I said I wasn't opening it, it was for her, she ordered me to do so.
Well this is what was inside.
Thankfully since I been a wanting a Tamang badly for some time, she told me it was actually for me and she had spoke to Auntie on the phone, she didn't specify a Tamang so that must have been Santa Yangdu's idea, I suspect she knew I been a wanting one.
This is a sweet sweet knife, perfect in every way, very sharp, slim handle made for my hand, no modification needed in the least.
She's just under 17" and 19.67 ounces on me relatively new digital scale. Light and fast.
Well I was struck down the Christmas eve day with a bad cold, I think my mom who was over the 22nd gave it to me, kind of a rough feel lousy Christmas but not enough to keep me from watching the granddaughter who had a blast.
So today still feeling pretty lousy I was just kind of tinkering and thought I'd give the Tamang my usual new attention. Oiling and such.
Remembering a thread about the waxy feel on some handles of which this was one for sure I decided rather than just sanding a bit and oiling I'd try to thoroughly remove the polishing compound which I suspected was the culprit.
I used Birchwood Casey Cleaner Degreaser, mostly cause I had it around and hardly ever use it. I'm happy to report it worked very well. It took away all the polishing compound and actually raised the grain of the wood again, requiring just a tiny bit of sanding. Between the Cleaner and the sanding it removed most of the discoloration, leaving the handle pretty blonde.
Then I simply gave it the linseed oil treatment and went into my happy dance.
I really love the look of this knife, quite handsome, feels a bit like a KLVUK which is mighty fine as we all know. Kind of stylish.
I also found that the sheath was really tight just in one little spot in the in and out process so completely throwing caution to the wind I took a page from Ndog's biography and pulled the top of the leather out of the sheath, I removed a little piece of the leather on the back strap, just a little bitty piece, and stuffed it back down inside, no glue or anything and now it's perfect, slides in and out just right, this whole process took probably about 3 minutes. I wanted to do it because it was rubbing on the black forge and I didn't want to rub any more of that off since I think it looks really swell.
Needless to say I was quite the happy camper and wish to thank Santa Yangdu and my wife for sneaking and conniving behind my back.
Almost can't wait to get back to work so I can show it off but really not all that bad, another week off would be really nice but not in the cards.
Wife who is very good at thinking up great Christmas gifts acted like she was stuck (a façade I should have seen right through) but I told her if she was stuck and really wanted an idea, just send whatever you want to spend to Yangdu and have her send something. She asked which one, told her it don't matter none at all, it'll be good no matter what it might be.
Well about 3 weeks ago I got a nice Foxy Folly sent from Auntie and inside was another knife but had Irene (my wife's) name on it. So I gave it to her unopened but she refused to open it. Said she'd wait till Christmas, I told her no need for that, just open it but she wouldn't budge. I was dying with anticipation (for her of course) since I couldn't really tell through the paper what it was. Tried the whole time to get her to open it to no avail.
Well come Christmas morning lo and behold I unwrap a package that I didn't even recognize as a khuk, used to the triangle box I guess. Well I get the wrapping paper off and I see the newspaper and it's still got Irene's name on it. So I said I wasn't opening it, it was for her, she ordered me to do so.
Well this is what was inside.
Thankfully since I been a wanting a Tamang badly for some time, she told me it was actually for me and she had spoke to Auntie on the phone, she didn't specify a Tamang so that must have been Santa Yangdu's idea, I suspect she knew I been a wanting one.
This is a sweet sweet knife, perfect in every way, very sharp, slim handle made for my hand, no modification needed in the least.
She's just under 17" and 19.67 ounces on me relatively new digital scale. Light and fast.
Well I was struck down the Christmas eve day with a bad cold, I think my mom who was over the 22nd gave it to me, kind of a rough feel lousy Christmas but not enough to keep me from watching the granddaughter who had a blast.
So today still feeling pretty lousy I was just kind of tinkering and thought I'd give the Tamang my usual new attention. Oiling and such.
Remembering a thread about the waxy feel on some handles of which this was one for sure I decided rather than just sanding a bit and oiling I'd try to thoroughly remove the polishing compound which I suspected was the culprit.
I used Birchwood Casey Cleaner Degreaser, mostly cause I had it around and hardly ever use it. I'm happy to report it worked very well. It took away all the polishing compound and actually raised the grain of the wood again, requiring just a tiny bit of sanding. Between the Cleaner and the sanding it removed most of the discoloration, leaving the handle pretty blonde.
Then I simply gave it the linseed oil treatment and went into my happy dance.
I really love the look of this knife, quite handsome, feels a bit like a KLVUK which is mighty fine as we all know. Kind of stylish.
I also found that the sheath was really tight just in one little spot in the in and out process so completely throwing caution to the wind I took a page from Ndog's biography and pulled the top of the leather out of the sheath, I removed a little piece of the leather on the back strap, just a little bitty piece, and stuffed it back down inside, no glue or anything and now it's perfect, slides in and out just right, this whole process took probably about 3 minutes. I wanted to do it because it was rubbing on the black forge and I didn't want to rub any more of that off since I think it looks really swell.
Needless to say I was quite the happy camper and wish to thank Santa Yangdu and my wife for sneaking and conniving behind my back.
Almost can't wait to get back to work so I can show it off but really not all that bad, another week off would be really nice but not in the cards.
