Has BirGhorka found a new leather guy?

BruiseLeee

BruiseLeee

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Just wondering if they've found a new leather guy and if there was any word on the guy who fled.
 
We talked with Pala just a day or two back and here's the news as best as I can get it. Narayan, the fellow who did our tooling and also killed a guy in a Dasein time khukuri fight, is in India, planning NOT to return to Nepal for some time. Pala hired his bother who is also a oood leather worker to do the tooling so we may not see an interruption in this feature.

I THINK Pala hired the village sarki I've been barking about, asking them to hire him and here's why. I noticed on the last shipment the leather has changed and the stitching looks like the work of the village sarki. I think our scabbards may take a turn for the better (although the new leather doesn't take the tooling very well). We'll see what the nephews have to say about it and play it all by popular demand.

That's it, Bruise.
 
If the sarki is the guy who made the scabbard for my villager, and Pala did hire him, good move :D Good tooling adds to the scabbard, but the quality of the leather he used on mine outshines the need for decoration. The quality of his work is outstanding.
 
Yes, tis true. The leather work on the villager I got was the best sheath I've seen so far.
 
I second what Wal said. My Villager was a bit of a paradox in that it was the Ugliest Khuk I've got with the best scabbard of the bunch. If Pala got this guy it was definately a good move!:D I kinda liked the way he put the frog together with the six rivets, too.

-Craig
 
Originally posted by Cuttin' Craig
I kinda liked the way he put the frog together with the six rivets, too.

-Craig
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LMRRAO!!!!!!! I wondered when that would come up again.

Craig it took Uncle Bill and several acts of desperation to get rid of those 6 rivets and start the sewing.
In a way I liked the rivets too.
Kinda makes the whole thing more authentic er sumthin'.:)

Some of the village kamis are pretty dayumed good sarkis!!!!!!! I have one scabbard made by a village kami or someone he farmed the job out to that is exceptionally well made.
Perhaps we've gotten lucky once again. I don't know if a business can have karma or not but BirGhorka seems to have really good karma at least IMO.:)
 
The rivets tend to rust badly. And, the quality of rivets and the type used vary considerably which can lead to problems. We have had problems with rivets -- breaking, wrong place, rusting. We have never had a single problem with stitching.
 
Thanks, Uncle. I knew there had to be a reason for the 100 year frog design. I tell ya', It is amazing whatcha can learn around here!:)

-Craig
 
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