HI- First time hands on impressions

The Annapurna Bowie is what I was initially after I think, I thought that was the Jungle Knife. I'll put one of those on the want list too :D
 
I think this jungle knife would be super at about .15-.175 inches and a longer blade. It really would make a great machete style blade... a little longer and much thinner.
 
To keep from spamming more threads, I will post these here.
I got my Anapurna Bowie last night.

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In comparison to a 12 inch Tramontina
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In hand-super ergo... as typical of an HI blade
 
Payette, thanks for the cool review.

Can I offer a suggestion?
When taking pictures, do so with the sun mostly at your back;)

not like this:
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No offense...just, we can see more detail of the gorgeous blades that way.:D
 
whatever, I liked that one and sometimes it is the picture that is what you are taking as a whole, not the object in the picture.

Sometime, I think it is nice to see a bit of art with the blades incorporated myself. :D
 
+1 that pic, while not great for seeing blade detail, is a nice shot when taken as an overall.

Most of Payette's pics I've seen have a good eye for the overall picture.
 
DanSmithy said:
Payette, thanks for the cool review.

Can I offer a suggestion?
When taking pictures, do so with the sun mostly at your back;)

not like this:

No offense...just, we can see more detail of the gorgeous blades that way.:D
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It's a pain in the high desert to get away from teh sun period, and that camera LOVES to bleach out images. I don't know what it is... some 9,700 pictures over the last six months with it and I still haven't got the hang of the thing. It's no Canon A650, that's for sure. The Canon would have compensated for the sun no problems. I got a Panasonic FH20 recently and just starting to put that thing through the ropes... having much better experiences than with my L100.
 
is the handle of the Anapurna much larger than the one on the jungle knife?
The jungle knife looks like it may be built for smaller hands.
 
1066vik said:
is the handle of the Anapurna much larger than the one on the jungle knife?
The jungle knife looks like it may be built for smaller hands.
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you be the judge, again here is a side by side picture of the two...

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The AB has a more pronounced sort of retention "hook" on the base of the handle than the JK. So I think they are about the same in overall grip area.
Both have about the same "diameter" as well. I think they are about equal sized myself when handling them and I have fairly large hands.

Both of mine are made by the same Kami, Lok.
 
the handle itself (of the annapurna) feels like a smaller diameter, though it is maybe 3/4ths of an inch longer? maybe not that much... the blade is about an inch longer and I'd say at least an eighth of an inch thinner. Both offer a very secure full grip with great chopping leverage for my average sized hands. Both have room for bigger hands as well. The ergonomics in general of all three of my HI blades really impress me.

The main difference, after some more use this weekend, is the jungle knife feels like a wannabe khukri, and the Annapurna like that of a more general purpose large blade. In mainstream design, I'd consider the JK a large moro, though as you can clearly see in warty's great comparison shot, there is a considerable forward sweep to the blade giving it a definite chopper feel.

The Annapurna's blade has a slight sweep forward to assist in chopping, though I feel is more general purpose, like comparing a Condor Golok to the El Salvador. It has a more defined working point, the blade is relatively straight with good belly, ability to drawknife etc.

Just looking at Warty's post I can tell these vary from piece to piece, but that's just my experience, and I'm very happy with both.
 
I'd actually like to see a similar shot of your two blades if you don't mind. Would help me with the whole seeing how different of the same model blades look side by side. Also which Kami made your two? Were they both made by the same Kami like my two were? I think this makes a difference too since of course they are all hand made and each hand can make them in a different way.
 
I am pretty sure both are made by Sentosh, but I'll dig around and find out. And snap some comparison shots for you too... I've been meaning to do that...

EDIT:
Rajkumar made the Annapurna Bowie, and
Sentosh made the Jungle Knife.
 
Lay those babies out in the desert sand for me and take a nice comparison shot of the two for me.
Put the Kami marks up on them for reference like I did to make things easy for me to remember when I look at it next year. :o
 
warty said:
Dan is one person, no one else is carping. You take beautiful pix.
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warty said:
Lay those babies out in the desert sand for me and take a nice comparison shot of the two for me....
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So...I'm NOT "the only one eh":D

PayetteRucker said:
It's a pain in the high desert to get away from the sun period, and that camera LOVES to bleach out images. I don't know what it is... some 9,700 pictures over the last six months with it and I still haven't got the hang of the thing...
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It's not the camera mate, It's how you use the available light to highlight an object.
I like the scenery shots, but the only way we can learn more about those blades (without having one in hand) is by seeing them up close and personal.
AND I didn't intend to 'carp' anyone!
Happy snapping.
 
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I wasn't carping you goof, I was asking for another shot now that he has both of the blades.
Try to read the whole thread before putting words into another person's mouth.
The simple fact is, I asked him for a comparison shot of the two blades that is similar to the one I took of them.
I still like all of the pictures he took previously and find no fault in them at all. Understand?

I will add however that I am carping about the wait for the promised picture. :)
Any idea when you will take one for me Payette?
 
DanSmithy said:
So...I'm NOT "the only one eh":D



It's not the camera mate, It's how you use the available light to highlight an object.
I like the scenery shots, but the only way we can learn more about those blades (without having one in hand) is by seeing them up close and personal.
AND I didn't intend to 'carp' anyone!
Happy snapping.
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I've gone through FOUR of them this year. Canon A630, A650, Nikon L100 and Panasonic FH20. I have over 9,000 photos average on each one, and that includes the hole that was the A650 that died within two weeks of purchase (took about 1200 on that one). The Nikon had SERIOUS issues with any light source, and took alot of fanagling to learn how to compensate. It did a decent job, but simply can't hold a candle to either the Canons or the Panasonics when it came to automatically compensating for light sources and capturing true colors. I took a bunch on friday, but they didn't turn out very good-I was trying to take closeups as the sun was setting and they were either bleached out with the flash or fuzzy. I'll get out again maybe even this afternoon (take a break from studying) and take some better ones.
 
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May I suggest a simple Kodak EasyShare? That's all I have and I sem to be able to take pictures anywhere.
They will bleach out completely though IF and only IF you attempt to take a picture directly into the sun.
As it is going up or down is fine but when the "Goose is Flying High", it bleaches the shot out to pure white.
 
The only one I had problems with as far as true color and light goes is the L100. The canons were great but the company designs the lenses to fail. The L100 was bombproof-it got dropped submerged kicked etc and still took pictures, but again had some issues. This new FH20 fits in a shirt pocket, has 8x optical zoom, and took
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these.

OK, just uploaded 53 pictures warty, I'll shoot you the link to my messy photobucket album via email so you can see the full size 14Megapixel shots of these sabers and such.

Here's the Kami Sentosh Jungle Knife and the Kami Rajkumar Annapurna Bowie...

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flip side
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