What weighs 2lbs, is only 16.5" long, and thinks it can outchop a khuk?
Jungle Killer from India.
I have a proto type from Yangdu. It had rust, (you dont think she'd send me a good one, do you???!!!) a slightly uneven finish, and the worst handle I've ever seen on a HI product.
Still, I like it. I spent some of yesterday afternoon trying to modify the handle enough so I could chop with it and not tear up the skin on my fingers.
This one is by Murali, the first I've ever seen by him. The edge appears to be solid, and is sharp. But the finger grooves he put in the handle were deep and not ergonomic to any known humanoid I know of. Even Carter did not like it.
Now, when you really want to fix something, popping the pins off the chiruwa handle, removing the halves, and then reforming the metal handle would be best. But I have no pins handy, and I wanted to chop as soon as possible.
So I painstakingly attempted to remove both metal and wood with a belt sander, a rotary drill bit, and a file. This is a very silly thing to do. It will take me a long time to remove the marrs in the metal. The good thing about this system is you can keep removing material until the handle feels right. Course, you could do that with the handle off if you had a temporary screw to hold them on. Which intrigued me: would a screw handle hold on a high tension tool like this?
More in a few minutes.
The problem with the handle is it is FAT on the bottom, tapers in the middle, and only swells out slightly towards the bolster. If you don't know why this would be a problem, imagine your pinkie having to cover more material in the grip than your middle or index fingers: the exact opposite of the natural grip. I kept looking at it and wonder what I should do. Rather than just grind the thing to suit, I wanted to leave as much of this design intact as possible because I thought the maker might have a reason for it, that might be revealed while chopping. In the light chopping Carter and I tried yesterday, we both agreed it was a no go. Today I have the handle reduced enough to try again.
I was ready to show a before, during and after photos of the handle work. Unfortunately, cameras work best with the DIGITAL card still inside of them instead of hooked onto your computer in the house. All the initial work is lost, I can't show it to you. But I do have some before and after picts. A light coating of furniture oil was sufficient to restore the color from the fine wood handle.
The tag on the wood said; 'satishal', and I don't know if that's a mispell of a common HI wood choice or the name of Jungle KIller in another language. Yangdu will weigh in and tell us.
munk
Jungle Killer from India.
I have a proto type from Yangdu. It had rust, (you dont think she'd send me a good one, do you???!!!) a slightly uneven finish, and the worst handle I've ever seen on a HI product.
Still, I like it. I spent some of yesterday afternoon trying to modify the handle enough so I could chop with it and not tear up the skin on my fingers.
This one is by Murali, the first I've ever seen by him. The edge appears to be solid, and is sharp. But the finger grooves he put in the handle were deep and not ergonomic to any known humanoid I know of. Even Carter did not like it.
Now, when you really want to fix something, popping the pins off the chiruwa handle, removing the halves, and then reforming the metal handle would be best. But I have no pins handy, and I wanted to chop as soon as possible.
So I painstakingly attempted to remove both metal and wood with a belt sander, a rotary drill bit, and a file. This is a very silly thing to do. It will take me a long time to remove the marrs in the metal. The good thing about this system is you can keep removing material until the handle feels right. Course, you could do that with the handle off if you had a temporary screw to hold them on. Which intrigued me: would a screw handle hold on a high tension tool like this?
More in a few minutes.
The problem with the handle is it is FAT on the bottom, tapers in the middle, and only swells out slightly towards the bolster. If you don't know why this would be a problem, imagine your pinkie having to cover more material in the grip than your middle or index fingers: the exact opposite of the natural grip. I kept looking at it and wonder what I should do. Rather than just grind the thing to suit, I wanted to leave as much of this design intact as possible because I thought the maker might have a reason for it, that might be revealed while chopping. In the light chopping Carter and I tried yesterday, we both agreed it was a no go. Today I have the handle reduced enough to try again.
I was ready to show a before, during and after photos of the handle work. Unfortunately, cameras work best with the DIGITAL card still inside of them instead of hooked onto your computer in the house. All the initial work is lost, I can't show it to you. But I do have some before and after picts. A light coating of furniture oil was sufficient to restore the color from the fine wood handle.
The tag on the wood said; 'satishal', and I don't know if that's a mispell of a common HI wood choice or the name of Jungle KIller in another language. Yangdu will weigh in and tell us.
munk
now....I'd take all but one of those finger grooves off.
