Deals for 9/29--Pix, Katana, Gopte and great buys

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This one arrived here in recent shipment from Nepal.

Everest Katana by Kumar

Overall length --36''
Weight --51 ounce
Steel guard
Brass fittings
Chiruwa style satisal wood handle
Standard leather sheath
Add to your collection at $425.


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Randy holding the Everest Katana

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15 inch 19 ounce Gopte by Ram Kumar. Horn handle. One more addition to your collection at $145.
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14 3/4 inch 15 ounce VUK by Lachhu. Satisal wood handle. Perfect knife and handle for gentleman with delicate hand. $48.

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25 inch 43 ounce Sirupati by Kumar. Satisal wood handle. Kumar remove the tiny monsoon rain rust on the blade tip and it is ready to go. $225.

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Email to himimp@aol.com to get any or all
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Excellent selection today. Sweet Katana! Even the VUK sings!

Somehow I picture Randy more in a saloon than a blacksmith shop but that's a great picture.
 
Beautiful knives again! I never bought a katana from HI! They are really starting to talk to me.....especially since new season of Walking Dead is about to start! Hmmm....
 
George Azar said:
Beautiful knives again! I never bought a katana from HI! They are really starting to talk to me.....especially since new season of Walking Dead is about to start! Hmmm....
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Oh, yes. Everybody who watches The Walking Dead should have one of these, and keep it at hand during the show. Remember: Blades never run out of ammo. And blades are quiet. It's important to be quiet.
 
davidf99 said:
Oh, yes. Everybody who watches The Walking Dead should have one of these, and keep it at hand during the show. Remember: Blades never run out of ammo. And blades are quiet. It's important to be quiet.
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That’s just what I was thinking David!
 
davidf99 said:
Oh, yes. Everybody who watches The Walking Dead should have one of these, and keep it at hand during the show. Remember: Blades never run out of ammo. And blades are quiet. It's important to be quiet.
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I just turn off my hearing aid and my 45's are quiet as can be too. Course I guess that don't help against the zombies that can hear.
Never watched Walking Dead, might have to one of these days to see what all the hype is about.

I'll have the Kothimodo Katana handy. I get skeered pretty easy.
 
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These Himalayan Katanas remind me alot of a type of sword that was found in historic China and Korea post Japanese contact. They often had a blade that looked similar to a Katana but with all different types of hilts.
 
Bawanna said:
I just turn off my hearing aid and my 45's are quiet as can be too. Course I guess that don't help against the zombies that can hear.
Never watched Walking Dead, might have to one of these days to see what all the hype is about.

I'll have the Kothimodo Katana handy. I get skeered pretty easy.
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Omg, Bawanna, that’s your katana!?! Man I love those. Gotta get one soon!!
 
Bawanna said:
Never watched Walking Dead, might have to one of these days to see what all the hype is about.
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If and when you do, try to watch from the beginning of the series: Season 1, Episode 1. The series is all about the relationships among the characters, and how people evolve (or die) under the extreme stress when civilization has collapsed. The zombies are just the catalyst. After survivors learn how to cope, the zombies are not even the main danger most of the time. They are mindless, after all, and move pretty slowly, only dangerous in very large numbers or close quarters, or in the dark, or if you're injured, or sick, or weak, or very young, or very old, or unlucky, or clumsy, or stupid. The main dangers, as some of the characters say straight out, are other people. Not just "bad guys" but people who are desperate or driven half mad by the situation. Sometimes the good become bad, and the bad redeem themselves through sacrifice. Even the blood and gore is only a prop -- despite the fact that many of the less mature fans get off on that stuff and don't care much about the moral dilemmas that occur when people have to make difficult, life or death decisions.

It does get pretty intense at times, like when someone describes how the only way he escaped is because "the dead were too busy tearing my family to pieces." Or when a character that viewers have come to love meets a gruesome end, sometimes heroically, sometime just wrong time, wrong place.

And that's it for my Walking Dead pitch. I think you'll like it. But keep that katana close at hand.
 
Thats a great looking VUK. Nice solid looking handle. She called it perfect, that's a clue.

Best of luck to you sir.
 
Amko said:
The Walking Dead appears reminiscent of the Resident Evil films.
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Nope. I've seen all the Resident Evil films, some of them more than once, of which I am ashamed.

The Walking Dead is nothing like that. The characters are much more real and developed. No superheroes or superheroines. No skintight costumes and ninja fighting skills (though one character is pretty good with a staff). Most of the characters start out as normal people: a sheriff's deputy and his wife and child, a korean-American pizza delivery boy, a farmer and his family, an abused housewife, a redneck and his younger brother, many, many others. The world is post-apocalyptic, which it has in common with Resident Evil, but that's about it. The main characters and even temporary characters are changed by the events and by their own actions. Some become leaders -- imperfect leaders. Some descend into madness for a time. Some start out mad, lapse into sanity, and go mad again. That's what the series is about.

There's no equivalent to Resident Evil's Alice, with her mysterious powers and pair of Cold Steel khukuris.:) No supervillains or high-tech props. Plenty of realistic villains, some low-level, some quite nasty. One villain who has qualities similar to some of the more ruthless warlords who conquered territories in ancient times and in the European so-called Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire.

There's also some humor along the way, as when a leader encounters a survivor in rags who is quite mad. She takes him to meet her partner, who she says "is just ahead." Turns out he is just a head .... no body, just a living head, moving around inside a canvas bag. I guess you have to be there to see the humor.

Unfortunately this subthread didn't start in the Cantina where it really belongs, so I'll stop here.
 
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Kumar Katana:cool: That dont happen every day! Mr B! Dont that make the hair on your neck stand up every time you see one of them? We got Kothimoda brothers man! You know ours were made about the same time:thumbsup:
 
And that's it for my Walking Dead pitch. I think you'll like it. But keep that katana close at hand.


davidf99 said:
And that's it for my Walking Dead pitch. I think you'll like it. But keep that katana close at hand.
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We get Fear the Walking Dead on Amazon Prime here in India. I guess that is the prequel. Will give it a shot. Thanks for describing the differences between RE and TWD, David!
 
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