Deals for 10/10 -- Pix and awesome buys.

[Yangdu]

All gone....

 

[jamesraykenney]

I think that's normal, all the ones I've seen are open on both ends.

Here is one that is made the way I THINK it is supposed to be made...

Mine looks like the left part of that one was just off and thrown away...
Ahhh... Here is another...

Mine is JUST the right side of that one(the side with the tassels...
The rounded end is compleatly missing...

 

[Berkley]

JR,
Hard to say for sure without seeing a pic, but it does sound as if your open-ended tinder pouch would be less than practical. FWIW, the dui chirra pouches didn't start out following the traditional pattern. The attached pic shows (at top) the pouch from the very first one ever made, by Bura, from the mold Pala hand carried to Nepal. The pouch is shaped like an ice cream cone, but it is functional - if not as attractive. The bottom one is from a HI Shop 1 ganja walla, which Uncle Bill sent me sometime last century in the (correct) belief that I'd like it. That one follows the more traditional pattern.
If Yangdu doesn't happen to see this thread and respond, you might want to drop her an email.
Berk

 

[jamesraykenney]

JR,
Hard to say for sure without seeing a pic, but it does sound as if your open-ended tinder pouch would be less than practical. FWIW, the dui chirra pouches didn't start out following the traditional pattern. The attached pic shows (at top) the pouch from the very first one ever made, by Bura, from the mold Pala hand carried to Nepal. The pouch is shaped like an ice cream cone, but it is functional - if not as attractive. The bottom one is from a HI Shop 1 ganja walla, which Uncle Bill sent me sometime last century in the (correct) belief that I'd like it. That one follows the more traditional pattern.
If Yangdu doesn't happen to see this thread and respond, you might want to drop her an email.
Berk

Ahhhhh, now I understand what that little flap of leather was on the side of the pouch in the second picture!!! It opens from the SIDE!!! I thought you just used the pouch like a bucket to withdraw the tender from the scabbard!
That is a very good design!

And now for everyones amusement, the infamous tender pouch that came with mine!!!

It is like a section cut out of a tire!!!
I guess the scabbard makers were having a bad day.

 

[Berkley]

Somewhere there is a bottom half of a tinderpouch that is feeling very lonely . You should be able to sew up the bottom and make that one useable - pick up a sailmaker's needle and some artificial sinew at the nearest Tandy leather store.

 

[jamesraykenney]

Somewhere there is a bottom half of a tinderpouch that is feeling very lonely . You should be able to sew up the bottom and make that one useable - pick up a sailmaker's needle and some artificial sinew at the nearest Tandy leather store.

Yes, but wouldn't it get upset with being known as 'stubby'???

 

[DannyinJapan]

that was a friggin beautiful dui chirra.

 

[namaarie]

That was my first thought, too, Danny! The stuff those kamis makes astounds me.

Nam

 

[SASSAS]

Ahhhhh, now I understand what that little flap of leather was on the side of the pouch in the second picture!!! It opens from the SIDE!!! I thought you just used the pouch like a bucket to withdraw the tender from the scabbard!
That is a very good design!

And now for everyones amusement, the infamous tender pouch that came with mine!!!

It is like a section cut out of a tire!!!
I guess the scabbard makers were having a bad day.

I won't post a pic, since it would be the same as this. Both of mine came with the same non-pouch (pretty much just a tube with fringe on top). (10/10 and 10/12)