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arbytwo

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21 inch 28 ounce Chitlangi by Tirtha. Nice rig. Slight shrinkage of satisal wood handle around the brass buttcap and loose sheath. Your's for $95 YBB. *SOLD*Yangdu's best buy

I received the 5/7 deal of the day chitlangi on Saturday. Let us say that Yangdu has very high standards as to what constitutes shrinkage. I would not have noticed it had she not mentioned it. I may apply some boiled linseed oil but there is no issue in using this blade.
My wife had a first reaction of "What are you going to do with that?" Within 24 hours she had a project involving the chitlangi - cut out some errant bamboo. For those of you who have not had the pleasure, bamboo, a member of the grass family, is a tough fibrous stalk. The chitlangi performed admirably and was quite handy in reducing the stalk into sections suitable for the yard debris bin.
I am curious as to why the chitlangi is warranted only for light brush cutting. The one I have is 3/8" at the spine and very robust. Although it would not be my first choice for chopping limbs ( I think the vibration to the handle on impact would be uncomfortable) I don't doubt it would be up to the task.
My initial idea, i.e. excuse, for getting this besides the fact that it was a great deal was to protect my driveway from a blackberry invasion but on handling it I see that this could be used as a weapon in a zombie emergency.
And the things one learns on this forum. I did not know that HI khukris had a convex edge. Now I understand the mouse pad-sandpaper sharpening system. Although I had no intention of using a bench grinder to sharpen one of these I have now installed a proximity detector so that if an HI blade gets within 2 feet of my bench grinder klaxons sound, red lights flash and a force field is activated.
 
A 21-incher at that price, and a fancy Chitlangi to boot, is quite a deal. Congrats!

A photo of this Chitlangi from the 5/7 Deals:

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LoL. Red lights AND a force field might be a bit of overkill. But seriously the convex edge really does cut beautifully doesn't it.

I think blackberries are the abosulte best justification for a Khuk I have ever chopped up but bamboo is a close second. Just remember if you leave a single shoot it will grow back so basically all you really are doing is cutting the grass (bamboo is a grass) and it will be right back in a few days to a week.

And yes, Auntie is always very specific about blems. I have yet to purchase a blem that was something I would have even noticed and sometimes I have to look hard even with her telling me what is wrong. Most of the time it appears to be the wood or horn shrinking slightly because of the difference in humidity between Nepal and Reno. And since all of mine are workers, the minor natural "scuffing" of the handle certainly doesn't bother me, it saves me from being the one that puts an "idiot mark" to use a 1911-ism on a pristine Khuk.

BLO changes the tint a bit more yellowish. if the handle is a color you like, perhaps just mineral oil or something might be better? Depends how you like the color or if that even matters to you.

As for fighting zombies. I have a Chitlangi too and you are right, it would be perfect for that in a pinch. Good shape for a fighting knife and mine is about the same weight/length as yours and I think it has a great flow when you use it for katas and forms depending on your art.
 
Congrats Arby! Fine blade aint it! Bamboo must be a heck of a lot of fun with that blade. I know what you mean about them blackberries.

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Ive been out almost every day for the last two weeks pickin about two gallons a day. Ive got two freezers full now so I have to make wine with the rest. There is a good side to it tho.

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Glad you like it. One day I've to get one and if its just for the name.
"...langi" sounds like German for something long. And "Chit..." Sounds like a well known English word. At least the way I pronounce it
:-D
 
Yummy Ndog. With items like that AND blackberry wine to look forward to it makes fighting the thorns worthwhile. Man, that brings back memories that make the mouth water. I can remember many springs growing up. Taking some old cleaned up paint cans out and filling them up so that mom would have enough berries for what she called a grunt. Similar but a bit different from what you have there in the topping hers was more like a biscuit sort of topping she made to drop over the filling. Then when the figs were ripe...ah well one of the few things they don't do up here in the northwest that I miss about home. Very few things and almost all food related LOL.

Jens, ROFL. Entschuldigung Sie bitte, Was ist dies Wort auf Englisch? Ich verstehe nicht! :D Or to quote a favorite friend of mine when I used to live in Rheinberg in the olden days. "Paras schieben!?!"
 
Paras schieben; schieben is pushing but I'm at a loss with Paras.

Can I ask what you did in Rheinberg? The closest I've been was Essen.

Chitlangi = Shit long i for me
I know there are longer ones but still it's quite long and then the name :-) no idea if it rolls of the tongue as nicely for people with proper English skills?
Now I better go and wash my mouth with soap. Let's see if I can get an organic one without food dies and other nasties in it.
 
Rook Blich Speigel. I'm so gosh durned multi lingual I astound myself sometimes.

Jens, tell me what I said so I know if I remembered it right.
 
Oh wow Bawanna. That's a tough one. Reading it I couldn't guess but then pronouncing how you wrote it did the trick.
I think it's Rückblickspiegel
rück rear; blick view; spiegel mirror
Rear view mirror.

Phill that's all you need to know in any language. :-$
 
Lol, sorry Jens. It isn't official German. And the character b in the second word was a ß equating to the 'ss' the keyboard changed it to a b. It was ancient slang. Translates sort of "to shit oneself", to be extremely nervous.
 
LOL Phillll spending all my time in a NordRhein-Westphalia region I think Diebels Alt is the drink of choice up there, though a good Pils is certainly a wonderful thing. But I prefer Hefeweizen. Just keep the fruit out of it, silly tourists...
 
Oops forgot The reason I was there is I used to work for NATO at the SHAPE Headquarters in Belgium. But I lived in Rheinberg, Germany and took the train in to work twice a week, the rest of the time I telecommuted. Simple and I loved living out in the countryside instead of in the big city.
 
Jens Schuetz said:
Oh wow Bawanna. That's a tough one. Reading it I couldn't guess but then pronouncing how you wrote it did the trick.
I think it's Rückblickspiegel
rück rear; blick view; spiegel mirror
Rear view mirror.



Phill that's all you need to know in any language. :-$
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I still got it cha, cha, cha. I used to work on Volkswagons and it was indeed rear looking glass, least that's what they told us.
Sometimes I just feel like the smartest man alive, and then other times, not so much. So for future reference it's actually one word in this context. Ndog, context is like what you mean for the sentence to say if it can mean more than one thing, not sure yall get that technical down there in Texas.
 
Oh Man! I just saw this. Im the King of Outta Context! Thats a South thing tho! Mean what i know!
Bawanna said:
I still got it cha, cha, cha. I used to work on Volkswagons and it was indeed rear looking glass, least that's what they told us.
Sometimes I just feel like the smartest man alive, and then other times, not so much. So for future reference it's actually one word in this context. Ndog, context is like what you mean for the sentence to say if it can mean more than one thing, not sure yall get that technical down there in Texas.
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I used to work on them VeeDubs. I had a 1971! I loved it till someone crashed it up for me. My wife set it on fire once! I had a newspaper on top the battery to insulate the terminal from shorting on the back seat and she decided to remove it while cleaning it up one day. I took off to work the next day and it began to fill up with smoke very quickly. I had to pull over and put out the back seat. They used straw for the seat padding and it had caught fire! I told her that newspaper was a very important safety feature so dont do it again!
 
I had the back seat fire a few times myself.

I had a buddy that worked at a VW dealership. I wouldn't ride in one while I was in High School but afterwards I slipped and probably owned 5 or 6 of them. Fastest car I ever owned was a VW, 13 second flat quarter mile and I drove it on the street.

Kind of off course for the chitlangi thread but I got another story.

I was visiting the dealership and they were busy. A little ole lady brought her bug in and said it didn't run good. This had happened 3 or 4 visits. They said it ran like a top everytime and couldn't find anything wrong. So the Service Manager asked me to go drive it with the customer and see how it ran. It ran awesome, I offered to buy it, young, single and had money. She wouldn't sell. So we go back and she's happy and leaves but comes right back, says it quit running good and something is wrong again.
So we go again and it runs like a top?????? So I pull over and tell her to drive, scary stuff right here.

She climbs in the drivers side pulls the choke all the way out and hangs her purse on it and of course it don't run for beans.

I removed the purse and pushed in the choke and we performed a miracle. I think she wanted to adopt me she was so happy.

Life's simple pleasures.
 
Are all of Tirtha's Chitlangis different from the others with their single fuller?

I have one (22" "Villager" finish, got from a Karda DOTD late last summer) and it is now my favorite Khukuri. I also have a "normal" chitlangi with the twin fullers (21" by Rajkumar) but looking at the geometry of the blade I don't think the twin fuller design would have nearly as much cutting performance as the single fuller design.

If I see any more 20-22" Tirtha Chitlangis turn up on DOTDs you guys better be quick, I'm coming for more.
 
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