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J W Bensinger said:
If you can weld, or know someone who can, I would weld an extension on the tang and reassemble. (I did this on the first khuk I made-long story, but through being in a hurry I broke the tang). I clamped the blade in a vise as a heat sink to protect the heat treat, rewelded the tang and shortened the blade a bit to put the weld farrher away from the blade/tang juncture. Lost an inch and a half of length, but it's held up.
On a little slicer you might not even need to do that.
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Wouldn't a side benefit of welding be that the too-brittle tang would lose some hardness and gain some toughness?
 
Likely it would-to be on the safe side I annealed the tang after welding-sometimes high carbon steel goes a little weird at the weld.
(I broke it by being in a hurry adjusting the handle/blade angle-clamped it in the vise to cool it quicker-created a hard spot-it was an old school sirupati and I shouldn't hace been splitting firewood with it...).
 
I'm afraid I don't know how to weld nor do I know anyone local that can do it. I think epoxy and a collar should suffice for a kitchen knife, but I'm worried the epoxy will be too brittle and it'll snap in half again if too much torque is applied. The blade on this thing is pretty heavy and ridiculously sharp, I shudder to think what could happen if it had a catastrophic failure. My wife's snapped quite a few kitchen knives (in the blade not the tang) so it isn't a hypothetical scenario either.
 
That's a wee, wee tang. Possibly sleeving them together, pinning through both parts and flooding the whole thing with epoxy when you reassemble it? Pinning both tang pieces into the sleeve(preferably steel tubing of some sort) should be a failsafe, at least on a kitchen knife.
 
Purple turd with a steel straw this time:thumbup:
J W Bensinger said:
That's a wee, wee tang. Possibly sleeving them together, pinning through both parts and flooding the whole thing with epoxy when you reassemble it? Pinning both tang pieces into the sleeve(preferably steel tubing of some sort) should be a failsafe, at least on a kitchen knife.
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I think this is a mandau with nyabor elements, probably muslim dayak, picked it up a month ago, forgot to post about it, its extremely high quality even if unusual, the silver instead of pine pitch is heard of, so I dont think its inauthentic-- plus artzi never sells bs.-- its good but not as good as the group I put a down payment on and posted in a froth of excitement-- this one is in hand!





 
Hehe, Gehazi. Have you seen 12817 there yet? A new Kampilan and if I can't get it, I wanted someone else here to be aware of it before it went poof like the 3 military sword set I was eyeballing a couple days ago that is on hold already.
 
Very nice Gehazi! intricate! nice side knife too!
Gehazi said:
I think this is a mandau with nyabor elements, probably muslim dayak, picked it up a month ago, forgot to post about it, its extremely high quality even if unusual, the silver instead of pine pitch is heard of, so I dont think its inauthentic-- plus artzi never sells bs.-- its good but not as good as the group I put a down payment on and posted in a froth of excitement-- this one is in hand!





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I really am really stunned when I look at that piece Gehazi. That is one elaborate sheath and the side knife looks like a wicked little thing. What stuns me is how in the world can you "forget" about such a beautiful piece LOL. I would spend days crawling over everything in your collection cataloging it all and just enjoying it. And you forget you have something like this. <grin> gotta give you a bad time. I am as jelous as can be of your collection thanks for taking the time to share it with us. I enjoy seeing what you and Blue are gathering.
 
lol, forgot to post about it ! i have been drooling over it, the mandau are really enjoyable because its not just blade workmanship but the total package of art that they represent, you know the score!

also shav, I have been writing an email to have him hold something for me the first few seconds after it appears-- then blammo someone was faster, I really don't know how its done, but there are people more obsessed than us ! -- and yeah that kampilan is great, I am totally tapped to the gills lol or I would have already put a down payment on it !
 
So recently I was at a dispensary of fermented beverages (bar) and I overheard a fellow bar dweller say he was Uzbek. I was lubricated enough to go over to him and strike up a conversation. I inquired about Pichok knives and where to get a good one. He said "don"t bother". He said he'd never use one himself so I asked him why. He responded "because I've seen the junk metal they make them out of."

So I guess that's why my Pichok broke.
 
Yeah, I argued with that poor guy about the quality of pichoks even though my Pichok already broke. I just didn't want hear it.
 
LOL! Always good to know that the original standards are being maintained. Even if the standards are horrible at least they are authentic that way.
 
Yup, it may be a piece of junk but at least it's an authentic piece of junk!

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I think the only thing new up there is the saber looking one in the middle. It's a Guom, basically a Vietnamese take on a French military saber but with some Chinese elements. It's much shorter than it ought to be so it may have been cut down to serve as a naval cutlass at some point.

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The wall is really looking fine. Great wall! Cool stuff. About 10 more and your gonna be hurting for room. Maybe 11.
 
Interesting tip profile on that Guom, sort of a big bad butter knife look. Awesome wall but agree with Bawanna, about time to reclaim another wall extension.
 
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