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Yangdu

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My father hired couple of new Kamis and they are working with old Kamis. Let's warm welcome to our new Kamis!

Dear Yangdu didi,




Here are the two new kamis photos.

From right Tilak BK and left one is Kumar BK.

Both are from Diktel bajar resident/eastern part of Nepal.


Experience- at their home town making villager model khukuri s not much experience about modern type. They knew the basic they will catch it our standard model knifes slowly. Presently Vim kami helping and teach them for manufacturing our standard simple model type knifes likes as BAS, WWII, Sirupaties and etc.


Thank you,

Rajesh



 
good luck to the new guys, glad to see the faces of those that hammer the steel!
 
Welcome Tilak and Kumar! Look forward to seeing your workmanship! Hope they enjoy their stay at HI. Great job Pala! Keep em coming!
 
I just love this in person interaction. Seeing the guys that do this stuff. Nothing like it to me.
It's like having your friend build you the knife you always dreamed of. Wish I was vertical I'd love to go over there and hang out with them for a few weeks. Bond don't ya know?
 
Best wishes and good luck to them; hope they both have a long and successful career working with HI!
 
Thanks Aunty for forwarding us the pictures and the mail.
Wishing them best of luck.


Bawanna said:
I just love this in person interaction. Seeing the guys that do this stuff. Nothing like it to me.
It's like having your friend build you the knife you always dreamed of. Wish I was vertical I'd love to go over there and hang out with them for a few weeks. Bond don't ya know?
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I also wish I could make it there and HI would allow some visitors. Whenever I'm in India, Nepal feels so close at least compared to when I am in California. Still would mean a trip of 1 or 2 days by car staying there at least one day and then another 2 driving back with a car full of sharp metal and a camera full of cool pictures, I guess :D Not really feasible. But now you got me checking. $250 for a flight to Kathmandu. Interesting! :)
 
Best of luck to you new guys = ) I can only assume that to get the opportunity to make beautiful blades for HI must actually be an honor.
 
Welcome and best of luck to the new guys.

Yangdu said:
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Experience- at their home town making villager model khukuri s not much experience about modern type...
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I like the fact that they have been making real villager knives instead of working at the souvenir khukuri factories.
 
Jens Schuetz said:
Thanks Aunty for forwarding us the pictures and the mail.
Wishing them best of luck.



I also wish I could make it there and HI would allow some visitors. Whenever I'm in India, Nepal feels so close at least compared to when I am in California. Still would mean a trip of 1 or 2 days by car staying there at least one day and then another 2 driving back with a car full of sharp metal and a camera full of cool pictures, I guess :D Not really feasible. But now you got me checking. $250 for a flight to Kathmandu. Interesting! :)
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Dude if I was in India I'd be there for sure. I was watching some video's of the airport there and then chatted with Mr. Wallace who said he has landed there several times. It was listed as the most dangerous airport in the world but he said it's mostly some of the bucket of bolts airplanes they fly in there. I have a pretty low fear factor but I'd risk it.
Check with auntie of course but it seems others have visited HI there and got the royal tour. I think it would be soooo cool. I suspect the whole place isn't very wheelchair friendly or I'd sign up for the tour group too.
 
Bawanna said:
... I was watching some video's of the airport there and then chatted with Mr. Wallace who said he has landed there several times. It was listed as the most dangerous airport in the world...
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On a backpacking trip in Nepal, my wife and I took a flight to Lukla, a village in the Khumbu region, in the late 80s before the airstrip was paved. The weather was really bad and we were the only non-Nepalis on the small plane. We thought we were going to die, but at least we weren't screaming like the other passengers.

It was early February and the only other passengers were six Sherpa ladies (with bags of stuff from Kathmandu) and a monk. Before takeoff, the stewardess offered us hard candies and cotton balls on a tray. The Sherpa women were passing around a flask and putting cotton in their ears. From our seat, we could see straight ahead into the cockpit and through the windshield of the plane since the curtain divider was open.

It was very cloudy and the ride was a bit bumpy until we got over the last ridge and were approaching the airstrip which was halfway up the mountain across the valley. Then it got extremely bumpy. The plane started bucking up and down, and a chorus of screaming began. I could see a little vertical line on the dark mountain ahead which was the airstrip, but it kept moving out of view upward, downward, to the right and left. The screaming continued non-stop, despite the monk's attempts to calm everyone, and my wife and I were regretting not putting some cotton in our ears, too. But we were also scared.

The plane kept bucking and several of the women seated behind me actually reached forward and grasped onto the fleece jacket I was wearing, holding tightly and still screaming, sorta pinning me to my seat. Maybe they thought they could escape unharmed with me? I don't know.

The airstrip got much larger in the windshield, but didn't stop moving around. It seems like the pilot made the plane stall at the last second, and the stall alarm went off right before we made a hard bump, a few tipping bounces, hard braking uphill, and a final fishtail of the plane not far from the rock wall at the end of the runway. The screaming stopped and we all disembarked, gathered our gear, and continued our journeys. Surreal.

That evening my wife and I took a little hike completely around the airstrip. Below the dropoff end of the airstrip, concealed in the bushes, were some big pieces of airplane fuselage (with the airline logo covered by spray paint).
 
Think id have to head to the nearest river to wash some clothes! Cool experience! Wish i was there to see that!:rolleyes:
 
Welcome and hello, Tilak BK and Kumar BK.
Always good to see new folks.

Funny story, Steve, as Ndog said I'd have to wear my brown pants that day!

Mark:D:thumbup:
 
Bawanna said:
Dude if I was in India I'd be there for sure. I was watching some video's of the airport there and then chatted with Mr. Wallace who said he has landed there several times. It was listed as the most dangerous airport in the world but he said it's mostly some of the bucket of bolts airplanes they fly in there. I have a pretty low fear factor but I'd risk it.
Check with auntie of course but it seems others have visited HI there and got the royal tour. I think it would be soooo cool. I suspect the whole place isn't very wheelchair friendly or I'd sign up for the tour group too.
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Would go there too if I would be alone. Would even prefer driving to see more of the land, however the flight described here would be surely something to tell the grandchildren if one survives :p
As of now family kind of slows me a bit. They are fine without me for a few days but in India it's a bit harder since everything needs more work. Be it killing all Mosquitos in the kids room, washing all fruits three times, filtering and UV zapping the drinking and cooking water etc. don't think my wife would be to happy if I disappear over there for 2 or 3 days.
Taking all of us along would needs lots of convincing since she isn't into Kukris too much and then $250 * 4 for everybody's plane tickets equals to a lot of curved steel :D
If I ever make it it would be cool if you can come too. Wouldn't mind pushing you around or carrying you as long as you weigh a bit less than me.
 
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