Completed Bowie model pic?

Yvsa

Yvsa

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Well here it is, such as it is. I didn't get as good a do on this one because I was too lazy to scan it over until I could make it match perfectly. I got lucky the 1st time and yet still scanned it twice.
The blade is a little off due to not having the blade straight with the yardstick and then me getting it about a 1/4" off. Oh well, it's done at long last anyway!!!!!!!:)

Perhaps by this time next week it will be on it's way to Reno. I still have to get some hard copy pix of it myself and then wrap it for the X-mas Demolition Derby Rush.
Then hand carry it to the PO for mailing. I can probably talk Barb into doing that for me.
Uncle Bill has already said it may be a while before we get any Specials made so he can get some inventory built up. I think we sometimes forget that Uncle Bill does have other customers and that this might just be a hectic time of year for him.
I know I do, I sometimes think of H.I. as my place to get really nice custom made knives made for just the pattern itself.
What more could a man ask for? :D

Bro when the model gets to you let me know what you think about it if you will please.
I would like to see a pic or 2 of it together with say a 20" AK or Sirupati for comparrison if you don't mind using the old junk camera for us poor deprived and depraved people....;)
 
Wow, you are some woodchuck :) I look forward to seeing a working model. That looks like a fine companion to my sidehammer muzzleloader. Have to wait and see what the kamis come up with.

Ryan
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino
Why don't we just sell the models?
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Bro the models would cost to dayumed much because of the amount of hours in one. Hay'ull it would be as much as a custom and still wouldn't cut anything except soft butter which it should have excellent penetration in.;)

It's easier to cut out a pattern and glue pieces on as needed instead of making a model just like the knife will be made.
BUT there is something to be said for the accuracy in the finished model.:D

Amd don't give Barb any ideas. She said the model was too pretty to send to a dirty old shop where the kamis were liable to break the point off anyways.:rolleyes: :p ;)
 
I hope the Kami's can get the Scagel-style balance in the steel. I have handled one and it is incredible. This is a must have for me!

Thanks for the hard work Yvsa!

Patrick Mc
 
...and certainly not a nag, or anything like that (HEE) but the Post Office will open in two hours and four minutes :D and you're still eating breakfast :rolleyes:
 
I loved it in wood, but NOW:D Beautiful!!!

One suggestion for shipping this Uncle Bill and Yvsa:

Maybe include a thin piece of wood on at least one side of box(whole length)and some stryofoam (hard)on the tip end inside the box. That way they can't break it in two(which the kamis would make into a handle with a stubby flatended blade and a scagel style chakma!;) :p ) The styrofoam might keep the tip from penetrating the box---wait a small square of wood to the outside of the box behind the styrofoam should do it.

GEEZ! You'd think you were shipping my daughter by how worried I'm getting about this:o ;)
 
...(I'm still on the first cup of coffee and the AM meds haven't had time to kick in)...what if the kamis are as impressed with the model as we are....what will the first ones out look like with a cho???:rolleyes:
 
Good advice on the packing, Rob.

The notorious YCS blunt awl model arrived at BirGorkha without damage and the first few awls came in just fine. Then the model got damaged by some kami and ever since the awl has come in blunt -- purposely so!!!

I'm hoping this model does not suffer the same fate.
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino
It's a slicer and dicer, for sure.
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Guys it sure should oughta be!!!!!!!

One day when I was walking out at the Tulsa Zoo I was feeling pretty good, this has been a couple, 3 years ago or so, but I still chuckle over it....,
anyway...
I was hungry, not something I am often during the day, but this particular day I was, actually extra hungry, and was thinking of a huge chunk of Roasted Beast.
I had walked quietly up by the Huge Cape Water Buffalo enclosure and hadn't seen the calf that I would guess would go about 800 Lbs or so at the time.
When I got right next to the fence, the enclosure is also in a pit sort of an affair, lots of room for the Buffalo and other veldt animals, the calf snorted and jumped and went and stood by momma for a little while, while I was staring at it thinking what one of the hind legs would be like roasted into a nice joint of Water Buffalo.
I guess the calf got even more nervous because he then went over and stood by daddy and actually wakeing him
up!!!!!!!!
And all the while the calf was standing by momma and daddy he was looking at me, rolling his eyes, licking his lips nervously, Very Nervously!!!!!

I don't know if we had a real link that day or if it was only one way. And I wonder what the calf would have done if I had been armed with something like the HIS(s)S Bowie or a large khukuri?!?!?!?!
The poor thing may have had a heart attack and instantly gave up his breath for me.
Then I would've had to have told our daughters, Clausia and Linda so as to see if me and mom couldn't somehow be the reciepiants of a joint of Water Buffalo Calf.
After all Claudia once got a roast of one of the big antelope out there!!!!!!
The antelope had a freak accident and was killed. And Nope I wasn't anywheres around......:)
 
I don't know if this is the best time to mention it, but the Cape Buffalo (not related to water buffalo, or to bison either) is generally agreed to be the most dangerous game on Earth, other than man. That is one critter you don't want to take on with a khukuri....
 
A khukri alone..no...
a spear and a kukri...maybe
A .375 H&H a spear and a kukri...there we go. :cool:

But you gotta admit... one of those Samburu spears and the HISS Bowie would be exhilarating. :D :eek: :D
 
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