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[CrufflerJJ]

Thanks Ndog. I do believe my tone above was unduly petulant.

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For Ram Kumar's future consideration, if the cho and the guard are aligned it can create "happy accidents" where an opponent's blade is directed into the cho. This gives powerful leverage for an opportunistic disarm or even a break. On this particular knife both the alignment of the guard and cho, and the overhanging lip on the blade side of the cho preclude such happy accidents.

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Mr. Wallace -

Please don't beat yourself up too bad about your self-perceived "undue petulance". Comparing the guard on the L-2 in this thread vs the guard on my Greg Covington Hell's Belle, I see several things:

- the brass used to make guard on this knife looks fairly thin. It looks thinner than the brass used to make the guard on the L-2 knife in the 2/5 thread. Compare this:

http://s1063.photobucket.com/user/yangdu1/media/2-05-17 2_zpsen6dcsa9.jpg.html

to this:

http://s1063.photobucket.com/user/yangdu1/media/2-03-17 5_zpss3yrq9oi.jpg.html

- this knife's guard extends too far forward of the cho ("Spanish Notch" on the Bagwell style blade)
- the "horns" of this guard are waaaaaaaay too wide. If you look at pictures (since I don't have one in hand, unfortunately) of a Bagwell Hell's Belle, the width between the horns of the guard are roughly twice that of the blade itself. This ratio is also found on my Covington Hell's Belle knife. On this knife, the width between the guard horns is about 2.5x the blade width.

All these grumbles aside, I still like Kami Kumar's work. I've got one of his Wajaski swords, and just said "I'll take it" to the 2/5 thread that offered an L-2 knife he made.

I know that being handmade, there's variation from blade to blade. Looking at the L-2 knives, many of them just look "odd" due to the width between guard horns & the length of the horns themselves.

 

[ndoghouse]

Thanks Ndog. I do believe my tone above was unduly petulant.
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Nah! Your all good brother! I was just reminded of one of my favorite scenes of MP. I cant help myself sometimes

[video=youtube;rJMRxbECzow]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJMRxbECzow[/video]

I kinda like the original better. I think the longer clip and longer handle and shorter guard is better balanced for a dirk. Still awesome blade tho. Id love to have either.

OK now... "Throw ndog to the floor sir!", Yes! "Rather roughly!"