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Dobe_1

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That's supposed to be guess what, not get what...

And just in time for the canoe trip.

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Gopte and my Ang Khola.
I had said I would take my Ang Khola canoeing and camping this weekend, but I'm dying to swing that big bellied Gopte.

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Look at the belly on that Dhan Gopte
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I like the curved grip and the large pommel on this knife. That's one of the reasons I like the M-43 so much.

The wide pommel allows for continuous chopping, while releasing some of the pressure of my grip. This reduces fatigue over the course of a long chopping venture, while minimizing the possibility of loosing control of the knife.

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The Ang Khola is no slouch either. It is a beautiful blade, and I prefer horn. This is my second Ang Khola. My other is a 20" 43oz T-Rex slayer.
This one feels right at 24oz., and it found a good home.
 
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M43 right after a multi-fullered knife.....check.

My only question is why not on main "sales floor" as i am informed for review and gawking by the masses?

Beautiful and useful knives both.....for canoeing choice, which less likely to fall out of sheath if in open and sheath secured against loss in a capsize?.....

I also think the deeper bellies excellent choppers if convexed enough in grind to not get stuck....just beautiful knives....
 
mtngunr said:
M43 right after a multi-fullered knife.....check.

My only question is why not on main "sales floor" as i am informed for review and gawking by the masses?

Beautiful and useful knives both.....for canoeing choice, which less likely to fall out of sheath if in open and sheath secured against loss in a capsize?.....

I also think the deeper bellies excellent choppers if convexed enough in grind to not get stuck....just beautiful knives....
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First question : don't know

Second: which ever the choice, it will be contained in a Dana backpack. I'll let you know how well that belly hold up.

Sorry for the brief response, pumping a little iron.
 
I'd like to point out that I was precisely correct at anticipating the activities of the USPS. I'm not sure this have ever been done before.

I've got my fingers crossed that there's a triangle box waiting for me when I get home too. I got my days mixed up and had Auntie send it to the house since I thought it might be saturday and I didn't want to suffer till Monday. Usually have them come to work so I can see em sooner and have show and tell.

Today is granddaughter day too so she'll be there to check em out first hand as well.

Do I look sick to yall. Maybe I should go home early, mails probably there by now.
 
Bawanna said:
I'd like to point out that I was precisely correct at anticipating the activities of the USPS. I'm not sure this have ever been done before.

I've got my fingers crossed that there's a triangle box waiting for me when I get home too. I got my days mixed up and had Auntie send it to the house since I thought it might be saturday and I didn't want to suffer till Monday. Usually have them come to work so I can see em sooner and have show and tell.

Today is granddaughter day too so she'll be there to check em out first hand as well.

Do I look sick to yall. Maybe I should go home early, mails probably there by now.
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And you were right on the money too.
 
Ok mtngunr, here is the test.
I just used the remains of oak tree I chopped down with my M-43.

I honed it first

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That heartwood is so hard that there were power strokes that pushed wood aside, but didn't penetrate.
mtngunr, you inquired about the grind, and how well the blade and edge would hold up....It's almost a flat grind, and it held up well. There were no nicks, and no obvious rolls of the edge. The edge did dull, but not to the point that I could not keep chopping with success. I did notice that the sweet spot moves forward on a deep belly Kuk.-not a bad thing.

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This type of cut is another reason I like a deep belly.

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A few strokes on a butcher's steel, and it's ready to go.

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Thanks again Auntie. I'm hoping the weather holds out, and I'll post some pictures of the 15" Ang Khola on our canoe trip.
 
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May I be the first to compliment you on how smashing it looks in your hand. I do believe the Gopte has found it's proper home.
 
Bawanna said:
May I be the first to compliment you on how smashing it looks in your hand. I do believe the Gopte has found it's proper home.
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Why thank you sir. Coming from such a smashing fellow as yourself, I take that highly.
 
My son just sent a picture of a triangle box sitting on my kitchen table!!! Aw pain and agony, the wait, so close yet so far.

He wrote I think we need a 3rd panel. Not quite but I do see it a comin one day.
 
I would say it works.....even if i do not recall asking anything except was there enough convex to prevent sticking, as photos never really can show that, no matter the angle or camera or light as convex is a 3-D thing while photos are not....it certainly appears to work just fine, and i always prefer knives with sweeping bellies whenever possible, as they are knives which work....and your proofing ground certainly shows it can handle a bashing......being a country boy recently moved to the big city, i have trouble without a 20 min drive to find anything to hack on nowadays....even if we did have a bear downtown a couple of years ago on a security camera and deer still manage to get splatted in midtown.....
 
Know the feeling about country boy goes to the city. I was raised on a farm in North Louisiana. I've shot game outside next to my house. When I moved to Baton Rouge, and started going to LSU, I talked a class mate into shooting clay pigeons on the levy just outside of the south campus gates. I was a good half mile from the campus, and I could see the tug boats from the top of the levy. They were well out of range. Those policemen just couldn't understand. I learned better. I won't do that again. It's tough being unsophisticated. I is more sophisticated now.:)
 
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I did not move to the city until a year ago....i am accustomed to sitting out back of the house with a table and chair and coffee carafe and wind in face and waiting for it to get light enough to shoot one of the deer moving through daily at about 35-45yds...i only took a couple per year and the rest did not seem to mind overmuch......this is killing me.....but MUCH closer to church by about 45 mins...gotta have our priorities.
 
Glad I'm still in the country. Once College starts for me next spring though it's going to be rough. No Mini Micro Bowie on my hip everywhere I go :(
 
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I'd like to point out that I was precisely correct at anticipating the activities of the USPS. ...
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I'd like to point out that I was precisely incorrect at anticipating the activities of the USPS. He did get it before the weekend camp trip tho so thats good!

Nice looking blades Dobe:thumbup:
That Ghopta looks like WWII meets Kobra! Enjoy your camping trip man! Wish I could join ya! Im due to get out soon or imma gonna go nutzr.
 
As for carry on a hip, if state laws do not define your knife as a weapon, Mr Taco, you might consider sending your knife to Harry Savage of savagesheaths dot com and ask him to make a sheath which simply covers blade and maybe has an extra thickness strip sewn across outside at mouth, which would prevent rig from slipping down inside britches, and be flat as flat can be, and just stuff under waste/waistband or snug belt...Harry will normally be done within a week of receipt and a $50-$60 charge including shipping and exceptionally thick leather stitched by hand entire with waxed heavy linen thread..... carry concealed, of course, when amongst those who fear knives and guns but who drive 3 ton behemoths at 85 mph in the rain without a second thought to selves or others and their lives.

Details below of a similar purpose sheath i had Harry make up for a knife with 6" blade and single guard, the guard itself is what prevents this one from slipping down inside pants and playing peekaboo out bottom of pants leg...this mainly so you can see Harry's rustic and rugged handmade really handmade work.



 
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Yeah, i was watching that big ol' system roll ashore and did not know if it was headed far enough inland to mess you up.
...over here in mid Dixie, stalled front, juicy air worthy of the coast and off and on rain/thunder every afternoon, also worthy of the coast where lightning and hail and buckets of water can be falling while sun slants in under storm with steam rising and still 100°/100%RH......almost feels like home except 85 instead which is right nice.....just left a parish member funeral (bless her soul) in rain with no protection and a bit wet and quite comfy....headed back for Angelus in a few, need to show you the inside of a church which would draw a country boy to the city....

Meanwhile, after sunset, go remove a few trees in snoopy ratfink neighbors yards with the new M43.....mine is next right after a Dui or Tin Chirra....and i will be over to help with neighbor tree removal program...
as with the engineers in Vietnam dropping Cheeseburger jungle clearing bombs and spraying Agent Orange, our motto will be like Smokie Bear's, almost...."REMEMBER...ONLY WE CAN PREVENT FORESTS"
 
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