Ah yes,this reminds me of the origin.I`m here,but I`m not really here.Yet,there is some evidence that I was here.I should install a trigger guard on this mouse.
I had the BAS,18th.Cent. and sirupati on loan to the Co. museaum.I had some WW11 stuff to go with them.They lost the wee karda for the 18 cent.If it does not show up I`ll trace the chamaka,which is the same size,and send it to Bill with my next cheque and a plea.A Nepali flag would make a good background for my next display:Bill? I had them all out for some chopping.This may be me but,as they dulled, they tended to pull the wood toward my hand if struck aft of mass.I set them on my lap as one would with a scythe and used a long, oval scythe stone.I treat them as an axe with no real secondary bevel.I hit them a few strokes with a grooved butcher`s steel and had more sharp than I needed. I made a plaque for the BAS and 18th. cent.,with room for two companion knives.They are readlly removeable to impress dinner guests.One campanion would be asymetrical.Bro. Ron`s fate rests with Bill,I only asked for two.The 18"WW11, I`ve taken a personal liking to, because Bill and I are odd birds,(with wings even), and it is in the bedroom.The 20"AK is a farm tool and is hanging off of the tractor seat in the barn.The sirupati is in the utility romm.It is more fun than the Hudsons Bay axe for a piece that won`t quite fit the stove or kindling. I`ll put it in the P.U.for now and put the engraved sirupati in the house when it comes.Where do ya`alls khukuries live? I may be the boy that Ysva meant in his brass and steel post.Steel was expensive and farmers everywhere are cash poor and at the mercy of nature and natures God.Iron was cheap.For a hatchet, they would pound out a figure 8,the waist to become the eye,and fold it over into a sandwich, hot forging the steel insert at the edge.Barns are red because iron oxide is the cheapest pigment. On the hannuman,I only know what I`ve seen here.I`ve worked out the engraving with Bill;I`m not as sure of the Newari.As I display mine,I have different needs than most of you.I want the khukuries to reflect favorably on Nepal.For reasons related to Buddhism and my own history and reflections upon it,I have the double dragons on the right,or power,side and two 3/4 facing owls,(we hope),on the left.Filling the background will be a view of the Mts.behind the owls on branches and traditional Nepalise symbols to fill out the left side. My next aqisition may be the chainpouri with the usuall,(if one can say that), that Rusty speaks so highly of.How about a pic?Grip length?
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I had the BAS,18th.Cent. and sirupati on loan to the Co. museaum.I had some WW11 stuff to go with them.They lost the wee karda for the 18 cent.If it does not show up I`ll trace the chamaka,which is the same size,and send it to Bill with my next cheque and a plea.A Nepali flag would make a good background for my next display:Bill? I had them all out for some chopping.This may be me but,as they dulled, they tended to pull the wood toward my hand if struck aft of mass.I set them on my lap as one would with a scythe and used a long, oval scythe stone.I treat them as an axe with no real secondary bevel.I hit them a few strokes with a grooved butcher`s steel and had more sharp than I needed. I made a plaque for the BAS and 18th. cent.,with room for two companion knives.They are readlly removeable to impress dinner guests.One campanion would be asymetrical.Bro. Ron`s fate rests with Bill,I only asked for two.The 18"WW11, I`ve taken a personal liking to, because Bill and I are odd birds,(with wings even), and it is in the bedroom.The 20"AK is a farm tool and is hanging off of the tractor seat in the barn.The sirupati is in the utility romm.It is more fun than the Hudsons Bay axe for a piece that won`t quite fit the stove or kindling. I`ll put it in the P.U.for now and put the engraved sirupati in the house when it comes.Where do ya`alls khukuries live? I may be the boy that Ysva meant in his brass and steel post.Steel was expensive and farmers everywhere are cash poor and at the mercy of nature and natures God.Iron was cheap.For a hatchet, they would pound out a figure 8,the waist to become the eye,and fold it over into a sandwich, hot forging the steel insert at the edge.Barns are red because iron oxide is the cheapest pigment. On the hannuman,I only know what I`ve seen here.I`ve worked out the engraving with Bill;I`m not as sure of the Newari.As I display mine,I have different needs than most of you.I want the khukuries to reflect favorably on Nepal.For reasons related to Buddhism and my own history and reflections upon it,I have the double dragons on the right,or power,side and two 3/4 facing owls,(we hope),on the left.Filling the background will be a view of the Mts.behind the owls on branches and traditional Nepalise symbols to fill out the left side. My next aqisition may be the chainpouri with the usuall,(if one can say that), that Rusty speaks so highly of.How about a pic?Grip length?
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[This message has been edited by ghostsix (edited 28 June 1999).]
[This message has been edited by ghostsix (edited 29 June 1999).]
