KLVUK and Dan Bahadur Baby CAK arrival...

Oh no.....i do not dislike forge scale on an economy knife but dislike it on many premium handmades now for sale.....it is a rust magnet compared to polished but i do not polish the sides of my old ball peen hammers or axe heads either....

I should have mentioned straight off all photos are of knives as shipped from Nepal and grimy and the KLVUK needed blade cleaned of crud and the BCAK needing more a light sanding of wood to get embedded grime from all the steel worked adjacent to scales out of the wood...already did a simple thorough wipe with my beeswax goop on blades and wood and both look much better already....will look marvy with a little sanding to clean wood on both and re-waxgoop both of them....i think i will polish the brass on KLVUK as well using only 1000 grit paper and brasso or tripoli....maybe 33.5 minutes of work on both....maybe 33.89....
 
Dobe_1 said:
yup, sure do. And before you know it, you'll need one of those golf bags.
Just a little inside humor. :)

My son burned up my chain saw by not putting in any bar oil. So I handed him a KLVUK. He thanked me, and I told him, it was far cheaper than a chain saw.
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Now THAT'S funny, and i don't care WHO you are!!!.......especially come the next storm....."get to work, boy."......but please have new chainsaw to hand him right after he starts wondering if maybe NOW is the time to move out and try it out on his own....
 
Yangdu said:
Great pix and post, thank you for sharing
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Always a pleasure, Dear Yangdu, to help you via showing potential customers what incredible knives you sell at incredible prices....i never tire of saying that if i had to run out the door with just one knife, it probably would be with a knife from HI instead of one of my "name" handforged knives.....if i snuck one of them along, it would probably only be because it was stainless and for lighter work...
 
If running out the door, I'll put some clothes on while grabbing family members, HKP30 and a HI 15" M-43. Somewhere in the confusion, I'd grab the dog.

Oh well, its a plan anyway.
 
Oh.....i would take the 5lb Cruiser for sure....not sure about the clothes....naked people with shotguns usually means no problem at all.....but for serious threats, i would throw Puff at them....



 
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Just another photo of the KLVUK along with a little something for scale, such as a scale....essentially a bit over 1/4" thick and 16"/16oz....the same weight as many heavy duty combat knives but far beefier out front than other knives without being any heavier...the prettier side of the wood handle after simply wiping knife down good with my beeswax goop.....you will note some hammer marks on blade flats which on such a rustic/villager piece, i like very much...




An after action review of the Baby CAK shows it to be a fine and totally controllable cutter for extreme angle slices and shaving for bark removal, whittling and making shavings.....and it is 1/4" thick as well....THAT is good blade design, and thanks to these having real belly and convex as a principal of design....
 
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mtngunr said:
Just another photo of the KLVUK along with a little something for scale, such as a scale....essentially a bit over 1/4" thick and 16"/16oz....the same weight as many heavy duty combat knives but far beefier out front than other knives without being any heavier...the prettier side of the wood handle after simply wiping knife down good with my beeswax goop.....you will note some hammer marks on blade flats which on such a rustic/villager piece, i like very much...




An after action review of the Baby CAK shows it to be a fine and totally controllable cutter for extreme angle slices and shaving for bark removal, whittling and making shavings.....and it is 1/4" thick as well....THAT is good blade design, and thanks to these having real belly and convex as a principal of design....
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Congrats on a couple of very nice blades. Reading about that BCAK aganin made me pull mine down out of the closet. They are tough little critters indeed.
 
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I had doubts as to utility of the BCAK despite posts favoring them as i had no idea what folk were actually using them for, if anything......suprised me, yes it did, when i went outside and commenced whittling successfully with a relatively shallow 1/4" thick blade.....i like to push blade with opposite thumb when carving and the wide spine is a dream while convex keeps the thick part of blade off the work out front on the blade.....a really solid all purpose medium/small belt knife for the woods.....suprise suprise!....

Rushed rain shots but perhaps you can make out the uber fine slices in stick bark out near tip...i could skin out a deer with this little crowbar....or notch a pole.....pretty trick fer sumpin' this thick.....







 
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I will cut anything with my BCAK I dare not cut with another blade of the same size. Good choice you made.
 
A friend of mine been into hi-zoot knives since early 70s and very up to speed on real woodcraft was totally blown away on "how totally useful and compact in size is the little piglet".....i shall need get him one if he does not beat me to punch...
 
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