Deals for 7/02 -- Pix, Bhutan Sword, Villager and usual steals

[Yangdu]

SHOP AND SAVE


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BHUTAN SWORD BY MASTER KAMI BURA

Overall length--21 1/8"
Weight--39 oz.
Spine thickness 1/2"
Handle of the Sword is made of satisal wood
Leather scabbard
Excellent work by Bura
Price $150.00

21.5 inch 35 ounce chandan wood handle Dui chira by Sher with all the usual stellar Sher features. Great buy at $165 YBB. First come first served. *SOLD*

17.5 inch 23 ounce villager by Ram Bhadur Kami. Sisau wood handle. $85 YBB. *SOLD*

10 5/8 inch 14 ounce R-8 by Yuvraj kami. Monkey pod wood handle. Weekend deal for $68 YBB.
*SOLD*
8 1/8 inch 5 ounce R-6 knife by Dil Bhadur Kami. The handle is US antler scrimshawed on both sides with flowers. Yours for $70 YBB.

7 3/8 inch 5 ounce R-3 by Dil Bhadur Kami. Chandan wood handle. $45 delivered.

7 1/4 inch 4 ounce R-3 by Dil Bhadur Kami. Nepal deer antler handle. $45 delivered. *SOLD*


Email to get ony or all.

 

[Dave Rishar]

Email sent on deer antler R-3. You all are lucky that my desktop fried itself Friday or I'd be emailing for that sword as well.

 

[Nasty]

Ya'll are lucky I'm broke.

 

[Svashtar]

Email sent on deer antler R-3. You all are lucky that my desktop fried itself Friday or I'd be emailing for that sword as well.

That's exactly the one I would have taken Dave! Great deal.

Other good ones: that's a full tang dui chirra (Berk's special) guys, not too many of those. It's also by Sher instead of Bura, AND, it's $30 off the normal price both the standard and pinned ones have gone for. Wish I could afford it.

Ram is doing a great job on his knives. That villager model seems to have brass fittings, but I love the blade shape, and it has a gelbu / chitlangi-chainpuri cho. Unique.

Also that scrimmed R-6 is $25 off the price of the first one with the scrimmed fish. Don't let the sheath stop you. I have the first one and it is incredible work by Dill, and it drops into any JKM dangler sheath like it was made for it.

(Yangdu, just a suggestion, and probably best made offline I guess, but the R-6's should just come with a JKM sheath. I think it looks better and would work better as well, and I'll bet be easier to make. Those knives are first rate and the sheaths don't do them justice. Just my .02[FONT=&quot]¢ worth.)

Norm
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[alberich]

17.5 inch 23 ounce villager by Ram Bhadur Kami. Sisau wood handle. $85 YBB.

Darn, I will send email on this, but I will have money after payday which is 10th so maybe Yangdu will not accept it.

 

[alberich]

Email sent, but if somebody wants the knife and can pay right now I suppose it will be moral if I back off. But hell it's exactly I wanted... well to be exact I wanted something by master Bura, but this knife looks so good. I like the slender shape.

 

[DannyinJapan]

165$ ? for a dui chirra?
I thought prices were going up ?
Damnit I want that....

 

[Howard Wallace]

...
21.5 inch 35 ounce chandan wood handle Dui chira by Sher with all the usual stellar Sher features. Great buy at $165 YBB. First come first served.
...

This one has style. Nice accessory tools. I like that they don't match the khukuri handle. It emphasises that this is a handmade tool, with carefully crafted accessories from the available materials, not an item coming out of an assembly line.

I also get a yin/yang feeling from the contrast of black and white.

(PS - Kudos to the photographer for the pinecone arrangement!)

 

[jefptw]

E-mail sent on 21.5 inch 35 ounce chandan wood handle Dui chira by Sher.

Dang, there I go again.

James

 

[Dave Rishar]

My room mate recently returned from camping. He'd brought an older (unpinned hidden tang) DC with him.

"How'd it work?"
"Great. I'm taking this with me from now on."
"Thinking of getting any more?"
"Why? This one is perfect."

And so it goes. It finally found its owner.

Anyone else remember when these were really expensive, and how we still complained that there weren't enough of them?

 

[Svashtar]

My room mate recently returned from camping. He'd brought an older (unpinned hidden tang) DC with him.

"How'd it work?"
"Great. I'm taking this with me from now on."
"Thinking of getting any more?"
"Why? This one is perfect."

And so it goes. It finally found its owner.

Anyone else remember when these were really expensive, and how we still complained that there weren't enough of them?

Yep! Bought my first one, a big 36 oz. one by Bura for more than twice this price today. Then got another one last year, a pinned chandan 32 oz. one for about $30 more than this.

I remember Yangdu sold at least one of the pinned ones for $175, and that was a great deal. I tried to be a big helper at the time and wrote to her and said essentially, hey, $195 should be the price point for this quality, so when the next one came up, that's what I paid! LOL! Thanks for your help Norm. . But that was still one hell of a deal and a fair price. This is a fantastic bargain for a full tang dui chirra, one by Sher no less. If I was working I would have jumped all over it.

BTW, I also paid more than this today for an 18" DC Berk's special, just because it was so rare at the time, maybe 18 months ago. Still the only one I have ever seen in that size offered. I also snagged the only 15" one I have seen, so have them in those three sizes with the antler tools. The 18" one at 26 oz. is probably the handiest one.

Norm

 

[Svashtar]

This one has style. Nice accessory tools. I like that they don't match the khukuri handle. It emphasises that this is a handmade tool, with carefully crafted accessories from the available materials, not an item coming out of an assembly line.

I also get a yin/yang feeling from the contrast of black and white.

(PS - Kudos to the photographer for the pinecone arrangement!)

It does look black doesn't it? But I gather the handle is just some of that very purply dark chandan. Nice contrast nonetheless.

N.