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Hi Folder
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But not a very good pix. Maybe Beo can doctor it.
I think Bro can get some pix up and a review of the folder. I don't know enough about folders to post a review. All I can say is I couldn't make one and I don't know how Bura got this one done as well as he did considering what he had to work with.
I think Bro can get some pix up and a review of the folder. I don't know enough about folders to post a review. All I can say is I couldn't make one and I don't know how Bura got this one done as well as he did considering what he had to work with.
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Or me. I might end up tossing one under the bed for the dust bunnies but it's something I wouldn't use much.
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Yup!!!! You read it correctly!!!! Tsimi sent me the Bura Folder!!!!
Tsimi likes to mess around with my head, (doesn't he everyone's?) and sent me Bura's folder just as he got it.
No sharpening the burr off the blade, nada, nuthin, zilch, it's in absolutely pristine condition.
Now I can't deny that I'm kinda surprised at Tsimi's actions in one way, but it does show he knows how to get it sharpened by me without sending it to me asking me to put one of my edges on it.
Tsimi told me to keep it a while and I'm gonna do just that. I pick it up, look it over a bit, put it back down, and in an hour or so pick it back up and do it all over again.
I haven't even began to think about putting an edge on it although what ever I do it will probably wind up a Moran or Convex edge before I send it back to Tsimi as it's my favorite edge no matter the grind on the blade. I don't have any chisel ground knives nor do I ever expect to. That would be my only concession to Not using a convex edge.
When/If I ever get any Japanese cooking knives that will be the day I have chisel ground edges in my house.
I will get a review and some pix up, but don't expect anything anywhere near soon. I've been pretty busy lately and a decent review takes time.
I will say at this time that the fit of the blade against the back spring when the knife is open is as accurate as I could've done with a precision grinder well and carefully set up to grind perfectly square!!!!
That in itself is absolutely amazing!!!!
Not all of the fit is quite as good as this, but under the conditions Bura made this folder in I find that equally absolutely amazing!!!!
Under further examination by Tsimi and resulting correspondence by Tsimi with Uncle Bill it has been determined that the handle slabs aren't buffalo horn.
Uncle Bill, I think Tsimi told me, told Tsimi that the handles are deer horn and they do appear to be that on 1st couple of looks and probably may well be, I'm not ready to dispute Bro on that but to me they also have the appearance of bone that's been well sun bleached.
I have some well aged Deer, American Buffalo, Cow Shoulder, Turkey, Eagle and maybe even some Horse bones laying around a circle in our backyard that looks real similar when worked.
Only one side of the slabs makes me think it could be bone from the end and side grain, But then I'm kinda wondering if Pala didn't get some of the Elk Antler that Rusty had given him to make handles from and took it back to Nepal.
The slabs look more like that Elk ANtler than anything else and would explain everything.
What gets me is that I was under the understanding that the Nepali Deer aren't all that large and these slabs are really big, but I've seen documenteries with the little Sambar Deer in India and they have some pretty large racks, perhaps the Nepali Deer do as well?
Bro?
Tsimi likes to mess around with my head, (doesn't he everyone's?
) and sent me Bura's folder just as he got it.No sharpening the burr off the blade, nada, nuthin, zilch, it's in absolutely pristine condition.
Now I can't deny that I'm kinda surprised at Tsimi's actions in one way, but it does show he knows how to get it sharpened by me without sending it to me asking me to put one of my edges on it.
Tsimi told me to keep it a while and I'm gonna do just that. I pick it up, look it over a bit, put it back down, and in an hour or so pick it back up and do it all over again.
I haven't even began to think about putting an edge on it although what ever I do it will probably wind up a Moran or Convex edge before I send it back to Tsimi as it's my favorite edge no matter the grind on the blade. I don't have any chisel ground knives nor do I ever expect to. That would be my only concession to Not using a convex edge.
When/If I ever get any Japanese cooking knives that will be the day I have chisel ground edges in my house.
I will get a review and some pix up, but don't expect anything anywhere near soon. I've been pretty busy lately and a decent review takes time.
I will say at this time that the fit of the blade against the back spring when the knife is open is as accurate as I could've done with a precision grinder well and carefully set up to grind perfectly square!!!!
That in itself is absolutely amazing!!!!
Not all of the fit is quite as good as this, but under the conditions Bura made this folder in I find that equally absolutely amazing!!!!
Under further examination by Tsimi and resulting correspondence by Tsimi with Uncle Bill it has been determined that the handle slabs aren't buffalo horn.
Uncle Bill, I think Tsimi told me, told Tsimi that the handles are deer horn and they do appear to be that on 1st couple of looks and probably may well be, I'm not ready to dispute Bro on that but to me they also have the appearance of bone that's been well sun bleached.
I have some well aged Deer, American Buffalo, Cow Shoulder, Turkey, Eagle and maybe even some Horse bones laying around a circle in our backyard that looks real similar when worked.
Only one side of the slabs makes me think it could be bone from the end and side grain, But then I'm kinda wondering if Pala didn't get some of the Elk Antler that Rusty had given him to make handles from and took it back to Nepal.
The slabs look more like that Elk ANtler than anything else and would explain everything.
What gets me is that I was under the understanding that the Nepali Deer aren't all that large and these slabs are really big, but I've seen documenteries with the little Sambar Deer in India and they have some pretty large racks, perhaps the Nepali Deer do as well?
Bro?
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It could well be elk antler. If it is that's the best travelled handle in the world. Hawthorn, Reno, BirGorkha, back to Reno, Miami, Catoosa, and MAYBE back to Miami. I figure 30,000 + miles on the handle.