Khukuri tie clasp. Pix and sign up.

Uncle Bill,

You have email sorry for the Brain fart. I didn't note what I wanted two of.

God Bless you and Keep you and yours from harm.

ts

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Guns are for show. Knifes are for Pros.
 
Bill, chalk me up for one. I'll add it to my check I still owe you for the kagas katne!
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Order has been placed but I have no idea when we will see these clasps. I doubt by Christmas but the kamis are full of surprises. And, these clasps are common tourist items so Gelbu may simply buy a few and send them. He is busy enough without trying to make jewelry.

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Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
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It's probably either sterling (2.5% copper) or coin silver (usually 10% copper, but Nepali coins might be a different alloy for all I know). If they're buying silver they'll naturally use sterling because it's softer than coin silver and easier to work, but they might be using silver coins.

Pure silver is sometimes used for bezels to set gemstones but not normally used for anything else in jewelry; it's softer than sterling and sterling is preferred.

I think even coin silver should work on werewolves ... at worst it should make them at least 90% dead.

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
I am certain these clasps are not pure silver but some alloy. I think pure silver would be too soft. But they certainly tarnish like silver. When I found that old clasp of mine is was black. I had to polish it for several minutes to bring it back to life as it is shown in the picture.

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Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ

 
There's an old chemistry trick...I forget the actual details, but I think I am correct with this...for any tarnished silver, you can remove the oxidation without removing silver (which is how creams and polishes clean up silver) by drawing a sink full of warm water (or less for small items, of course), adding regular table salt (I THINK) and dissolving it in the water, and then putting the tarnished object on a piece of aluminum foil and submerging it for a while. Only thing I forget is if it is table salt that goes into the water or not....

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I used Brasso with pretty good success and then hit it on the buffing wheel for maybe 15 seconds per side.

Chemistry was never my strong subject so I better stay away. If my old lab experiments are any indication I'd probably end up dissolving the clasp.

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Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ

 
Kaka,

When it comes to chemistry, I'm in the same boat. My most famous experiment was in freshman year in high school when I overheated a test tube of sulphuric acid with the result of it exploding and setting a table on fire. This was in India by the way.

Arvind
 
What Chiro is talking about is actually making an electric battery -- a small current will flow through the electrolyte solution (salt water) and the aluminum foil will get tarnished as the silver gets clean.

You know, before we started burning coal and polluting the air with sulphur dioxide, silver hardly tarnished at all. Those were the good old days.... Only a couple of centuries ago -- how the time flies!

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
Uncle Bill, here's a positive thinking. NOW your air is clean thanks to your tie clasp!

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\(^o^)/ Mizutani Satoshi \(^o^)/
 
Wow! I had never thought of that either! Bill, you gotta get the kamis to make more silver-mounted khukuris and scabbards. Advertise them as Eco-Khukuris! Take out ads in the Sierra Club newsletter, Green Living, New Age Journal, all the treehugger mags. Maybe we can get a tax deduction from the government for everyone who buys one -- but only if you wear it daily! And in Britain and Australia and New Zealand where the "citizens" are only allowed to carry knives if they have a "good reason" -- what better reason could there be? With enough publicity we ought to be able to get everyone in the world wearing silver-mounted khukuris everywhere they go, and we'll clean up the air, and we won't look weird any more ... um, that is a disadvantage, isn't it ... well, we can wear two of them, one on each hip, so we can recognize each other as knife knuts ... no, that won't work, people who are particularly dedicated to cleaning up the environment will wear two whether they're knife knuts or not ... maybe three ... give me some time; I'll think of some way we'll still be able to recognize each other ... it'll take a while to get the new fashion going anyway; we'll have time to think of something.

-Cougar Allen :{)


[This message has been edited by Cougar Allen (edited 12 December 1999).]
 
Hello Uncle!

I will take one!

I can finally carry a khukuri with me everywhere I go!

Thanks!
Prodigal nephew Clay

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Clay Fleischer
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Currently: Indianapolis, IN
Hometown: Kingsport, TN

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