GENTLEMEN. I have created...THIS THING!!! :D

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Dave K

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Uncle Bill, Beoram, Yvsa, and others, my wooden katar is almost complete. :)

All materials are shaped and finished and final assembly has begun.

I now have a few questions about what to do next, namely whether or not I should paint it and in what state of assembly it should be shipped.

It looks as if the model will be capable of partial or even complete disassembly and reassembly for shipping purposes. My question is, is this a good idea or would it just confuse the kamis?

Also, though the model is pine and plywood screwed together, the final project should be all steel and welded together. Is painting enough to make this clear to the kamis?

I don't have any pictures yet, but will hopefully take some tonight and in any case will definitely do so before my baby goes away in the mail. I will also try to scan the pix and post them, but with all the problems that seem to have cropped up recently, that may turn out to be too tough for this Polack to figure out.

Finally, I was also wondering about the possibility of Foxy doing a mold and maybe sending the product of that to Nepal instead of my beloved model.

Whaddaya say folks?

-Dave
 
Dave, if you like, you can email me some pics after you get them and I will put them up on my site for all to see. Let me know.

BTW I like the idea of having Foxy do a mold and sending that Katar to the Kamis.
 
Dave - I'd love to see photos too. If you email them to me I can actually post them directly to the forum.

The idea of sending a mould instead of your actual model might be good--it'ld be horrible if your only version were to go astray in the mail :eek:.

cheers, B.
 
Handle structure is complete. Waiting for some glue to dry right now on the "yoke" that holds the base of the blade...taking longer than the label says it should. :mad:
 
Holy Toledo! I'll tell the kamis to weld rather than make the model exactly as you have. I just hope they don't do it in wood.
 
I think the katar could sort of be considered a push dagger in my country. This may make it illegal for me to have :(

Other than that I'd like to see the finished product and some field testing :) Anyone got some elephant skulls lying around :D
 
... the katar could sort of be considered a push dagger in my country. This may make it illegal for me to have ...
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It is a dagger! Sigh! I can't import it to KL :( ... it will be confiscated the moment it reach KLIA! ... may be I can import it the moment I were selected as Prime Minister :D
 
Pix have been developed at Walgreens and I will now attempt to email some scans to beoram and wildmanh too.

One of them is going to be a very "special" photo... :D
 
Originally posted by Dave K
Pix have been developed at Walgreens and I will now attempt to email some scans to beoram and wildmanh too.

One of them is going to be a very "special" photo... :D
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Cool! Send the pics on over.:) My email address is wildmanh@yahoo.com
 
Wildmanh, you have mail.

Beoram does too.

Now I have to figure out how to ship this thing...
 
Here's the photos Dave K sent me of his fab-looking katar model--now we just need to get the kamis to make them.....;)

dave-katar-ruler.jpg

next to a 12inch (??) ruler

dave-katar-grip.jpg

shot of the grip

dave-katar-side.jpg

side-view

dave-katar-mad.jpg

Dave's brother Daniel goes mad (the 'special' photo I presume ;) )



cheers, B.
 
Thank you both for putting up pics of the model so quickly. :)

It IS a 12" ruler in the pic; I decided to err on the side of making the katar larger because I don't always like what happens when the kamis decide to design a larger version of an existing knife (i.e. super salyan) so I'd rather they just shrink it down if anyone wanted a smaller model. Only important thing is that it doesn't get narrower or wider!

No frills, nothing fancy, pretty much what you see is what you get. The only detail the pics don't really bring out is the diamond cross section and relatively uniform distal taper of the blade.

So should we paint it, mold it, or ship it as is?

-Dave

PS-that is actually my brother Daniel in that last photo; the photos of me with the katar were even uglier...:p
 
Originally posted by Dave K
Thank you both for putting up pics of the model so quickly. :)

It IS a 12" ruler in the pic; I decided to err on the side of making the katar larger because I don't always like what happens when the kamis decide to design a larger version of an existing knife (i.e. super salyan) so I'd rather they just shrink it down if anyone wanted a smaller model. Only important thing is that it doesn't get narrower or wider!

No frills, nothing fancy, pretty much what you see is what you get. The only detail the pics don't really bring out is the diamond cross section and relatively uniform distal taper of the blade.

So should we paint it, mold it, or ship it as is?
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No worries Dave - happy to oblige :).

Since Uncle Bill advises sending as is--that's what I'd do ;)

The kamis can always add some 'frills' and posh-it up a bit perhaps.

Does anyone know--in these one piece katars, is the whole piece cast?! It wouldn't seem to be very hardy if so. Or is there someway of forging them? The one I have is about 5 separate pieces - the grip being obviously cast, but the blade (European I suspect) being forged.

I'd be an interested in an HI katar myself.

cheers, B.
 
Originally posted by wildmanh

Ah shucks, you beet me to it Beoram
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wildmanh - you can actually post pics directly too! Here's one I pulled from your site:

15_sirupati_kesar_01_mid.jpg


I did this by typing {IMG}http://www.geocities.com/wildmanh/knives/15_sirupati_kesar_01_mid.jpg{/IMG}

except with square brackets: [] instead of angle-brackets {} around the IMG tags. you can also just click on the IMG button in the vB code section and input the http location.

cheers, B.
 
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