Delusional??

Walosi

Walosi

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Maybe...even probably :eek: but I have e-mailed a couple of gentlemen of our number with a supposition-allegation- even a questioning accusation (HEE) concerning the wood used in the handle on the BHUBE. They haven't answered. I'm coming to the conclusion that if this wood was grown in Nepal, it was up in the clouds, and 10,000 years ago. It has had three sandings with a 3M "fine" pad, four with alternating 600 grit SC paper and 0000 steel wool, and it looks like it has had 8-10 coats of oil. It has a burl that was just a lighter color between the ring and the butt cap. A scrolled, engraved gold pommel could not match it. The wood is as hard a marble. I'm still waiting for a reply. :confused:
 
Finn -

I can't put this durn knife down with or without lashings - gotta learn to type with my nose. The over-large handle isn't bad at all, but the wood is something else. I could easily be wrong in my supposition, but...Nepal Ho ?
 
Wal,

Sounds like you were lucky enough to get a fully cured burlwood handle. Personally, I like the handle on mine. When you get used to it it actually has some advantages.
 
Finn -

The only wood I have seen that will take a polish like this is art-grade Costa Rican Cocobolo. Fully cured burlwood, I wouldn't doubt for a minute, but from what tree? I've re-worked a couple of old Circassian stocks that were $500 when they were blanks, and they weren't this hard, and not much prettier. I can't wait to get some oil in it, but I'll see how high it polishes out, first. :D
 
Wal,

This might sort of explain why Sanu made such a big handle - showing off the quality of the wood.

If you're familiar with the Turnipseed "Shoot Jitsu" method, the grip and arm positioning can be adapted to work well controlling large (handled) khukuris.

A thought - nothing says for sure that this wood originated in Nepal -it could have traveled from any number of places to BirGhorka.
 
..I still think it resembles Cocobolo more than anything else, even to the burl. It has two very thin coats of oil on it now, with no wooling in between. It drank the first coat, but the oil still set up well due to the polished surface, so I did it again while the first was still a little tacky, and floated it on with Armor All. Now it looks like it is lit from within.

Finn, I think you are right - Sanu knew what he had before he started the blade - I just wish there was a way he could tell us what it wood it is.
 
]Originally posted by Walosi I just wish there was a way he could tell us what wood it is.
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...Whose wood this is,
I think I know,
His house is in Nepal, though...

Apologies to Robert Frost (I think). ;)
 
Dunno. Just remember...When you get to a fork in the road...take it.


;)
 
Thanks for very good AM chuckle, Blues!!!

They don't always use saatisal. Handle material comes from strange places, sometimes. I have a feeling that the KNN may bring some wood from the village from time to time. And every now and then some enterprising village fellow will bring in a sack full of various pieces of wood he's collected, knowing that it will make good handles and he'll get a high price for a piece of wood that might otherwise go in the "chulo" for heating tea.
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino
Thanks for very good AM chuckle, Blues!!!

They don't always use saatisal. Handle material comes from strange places, sometimes. I have a feeling that the KNN may bring some wood from the village from time to time. And every now and then some enterprising village fellow will bring in a sack full of various pieces of wood he's collected, knowing that it will make good handles and he'll get a high price for a piece of wood that might otherwise go in the "chulo" for heating tea.
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Blue emphasis mine.:)
I have long been of the opinion that no matter how poor or downtrodden a person or people may be they are still able to find beauty and function in the world around them.
I think without those feelings that somehow we would all be a little less human than we are and that perhaps we wouldn't have any hope at all.
 
If you remember old Ganga Ram brought is some deer horn for handles that he had inherited from his grandfather!
 
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