Jim March has come and gone.

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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Jim March has come and gone -- all 6' 4" and 280 pounds of him. He brought more knives than I have seen in some cutlery stores -- and better! Good guy, smart guy, good conversation. He gave the kamis a "secret" assignment. If they pull it off I think it will amaze many people, including me.

Last week, John Powell. This week Jim March and Arkansas judge who used to be a buddy of Bill Clinton -- for whatever that is worth these days! Next week Lance Strong, an old pal and customer of 10 years. Still using his HI khukuris in the mountains of Idaho and he tells me they are good as new. We are getting to be the regular khukuri stagestop here in Reno.

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Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
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Well it sounds as if Reno is much like it always has been.
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A town for some good citizens,gamblin halls and saloons,brothels and a noted stage stop.

Sometime back in the mid 70's I heard that the restoraunts and other eatin places were cheap and you could get a really good porterhouse
for what you would expect to pay for a sirloin in most places.
I kinda wish I had of visited when I lived closer.But now I have friends there and a good reason to visit.
I hope to meet everyone I can there on our next trip out that way.There is definitly gonna be a side trip from Phoneix.


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If you mix milk of magnesia with vodka and orange juice do you get a phillips screwdriver?

Khukuri FAQ


 
Well, I just got back and I gotta tell ya, I learned some very important things:

1) Bill, Pala and Yangdu are really as nice as we thought. No surprise, but pleasant confirmation
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2) Pala's english isn't at all bad! The only time Yangdu had to be roped in as a translator was when we got into part of the technical discussions but for general conversation he holds his own just fine.

2) In working on the "secret project" Pala did a lot of technical illustrations. He's a fine freehand artist and with training could have been a draftsman no problem. BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT: Nepalese concepts of how to translate something 3D into a 2D drawing are radically different than our "Western" ways influenced by blueprints and other standard methods of technical illustration!

The Nepalese methods are not "worse" than ours, they're just different. WAY different. The whole idea of side view/top view/bottom view/etc is completely alien to the type of illustrations I saw Pala do. The problems the kamis have had with for example "top view" illustrations are NOT due to them being stupid, it's the result of fundamental differences in technical illustration types.

What this means is, if you've got some neat idea for the Kamis you're best off mocking it up in wood, plexiglas, whatever, fully set up in 3D. If I recall right, Yvsa is doing that now.

As to the "secret project": it is a very bold attempt and we're not yet sure if they can pull it off. We THINK they can though. NO, it ain't a megafolder!!!
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But if this works, it's gonna be major...and somebody with a monopoly is going to lose that monopoly, bigtime. And they'll deserve it.

Jim March
 
Secret projects? Busting monopolies? What are you guys up to?

Logical induction here:

1. It's cutlery related

2. Product is currently monopolized by someone we don't care much about.

3. People involved are too honorable to knock off any copyrighted production design.

4. Jim March like big things

5. Probably not another khukuri

6. Not mechanically complex

7. Something sufficiently different as to require mock modeling to explain to the kamis

8. Secrecy required due to project sensitivity

What could it be? Jim is planning to make swords or what?


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Nyaaaa nyaaa nyaaa
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Can't say. It'll make a cool story eventually.

Jim
 
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5. Probably not another khukuri
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I guess their secret project has something to do with Khukuri! It must be a new model of enhanced Khukuri! Why?
  1. According to Pakcik Bill, Jim brought a lot of knives.
  2. According to Pakcik Bill & Jim, if they pull the project off it will amaze many people including Pakcik Bill.
  3. Jim gave hints that it is a secret project - (I guess) with high sensitivity on cutlery production only, needs translation of technical illustration from 3D to 2D to make Kamis really understand it and it will break a sort of monopoly.
  4. Jim is a MA practitioner and Pala is an Ex-Gorkha Serviceman.[/list=a]Wa-(A)llaahu-a'lam!
 
For the record, Jim barely qualifies as an "MA practitioner", is barely trained, training is on hold due mainly to that lawsuit, etc.

As to anything else...sorry. Only Bill has the right to break the story but we don't know if it'll fly yet. I personally think it will though.

Jim
 
I don't expect any confirmation or denial, but I can't resist guessing -- my guess is, it's a smatchet!
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-Cougar Allen :{)
 
Bzzzt! Way too small a market.

The other problem with a Smatchet (a.k.a. "Satan's pancake flipper") is that you can't support the spine with the off-hand. True, I pondered a double-edge Khukuri at one point (and no, it ain't that either) but I only thought about sharpening the outermost 3" or so. I'm no longer convinced that's right; a Khukuri just "wants to hack" and b'gawd they do it well.

(Hey Bill, this is fun, no?
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Jim
 
An HI Outsider, perhaps? I suppose you could call that a monopoly, since so far there's only one of it, but for Jim to bust his own (and Harold Moeller's) "monopoly" sounds rather farfetched. This idea just sounds too weird, so I doubt that it's right.


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Paul Neubauer
prn@bsu.edu
Join the NSSSA (Nationial Short-Sleeve Shirt Association) -- Support the right to bare arms!

 
Is it a tanto blade to break Cold Steel's monopoly on tantos?

(Clutching at straws...)
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-Dave

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"I'm not a complete idiot; some parts are missing."


 
No, not the Outsider! Not a Tanto either...and CS doesn't have a monopoly there any more.

The monopoly in question isn't totally complete per recent info, but it's very dominant in the price/performance category involved...as in, over 90%.

Jim
 
My guess – A fighting bowie in the $100 price range. Possibly a variant of one of the old Nepalese styles.

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Howard Wallace
Khukuri FAQ

 
I'm betting you're trying to make swords, probably Japanese types. I remember Jim mention something about it months back, at the old forum?

If so, be advised, there is a very astute competition at the sub $200 level.

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