Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Yangdu

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Wishing you all Merry Christmas and happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.

HI and HI staffs and family are so fortunate to have you all in our lives! We want to thank you all from bottom of our heart for all your love and support
throughout the year. We will do our best to serve you in 2023.

Yangdu
Kami Sherpa
Kamis and Sarkis


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And Merry Christmas to all of you too Auntie. Your a huge blessing in all our lives as well. Hoping all goes very well for everyone in Nepal and Reno for 2023.
 
A very Merry Christmas to you Auntie and to all of your family here and in Nepal. Holiday Blessings to the Kamis and Sarkis and to all of the Forumnites. May Good Health and Prosperity follow you all this coming year.
 
Count me in! A Merry Christmas to all here and thanks for all the knowledge I have gained here. Great place to be!
 
Dear YANGDU...

Joy to all the worlds you know and touch. You've spread light to so many, and shared your kindness to us all.

Be gentle with yourself.

Kis
 
Happy New Year to all of HI Family! Hope everyone had a great Holiday season. Im making me a new sword ( no steel involved) and will post as soon as I can figure out how to post pics. My Godaddy acount expired and is too expensive to reup so all my old post are missing pics. Ill eventually fix that though. Dogs are finally settling down. They hate fireworks!
 
No steel? Is it going to be bronze? I understand the ancients knew how to harden the edge of a bronze sword so it was almost as good as steel.

I've been working on making a wooden katana for the past twenty years. Every year or two I pick it up and work on it for five or ten minutes, until I realize that I have no actual use for a wooden katana. Also I cheated by starting with one of those rounded hardwood practice swords that already had the right curved shape. I aim to finish it in this lifetime.
 
davidf99 said:
No steel? Is it going to be bronze? I understand the ancients knew how to harden the edge of a bronze sword so it was almost as good as steel.

I've been working on making a wooden katana for the past twenty years. Every year or two I pick it up and work on it for five or ten minutes, until I realize that I have no actual use for a wooden katana. Also I cheated by starting with one of those rounded hardwood practice swords that already had the right curved shape. I aim to finish it in this lifetime.
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Nope not bronze. It will be a Macuahuitl. Yep this one will prolly be a work on it when I feel like it too. Just making the blades is very time consuming. Even if you are a good flint knapper its a very different style of flint knapping than making bifacial blades. They call the blades Laminar blades. I've learned to make them pretty well using solid glass blocks for practice. They are some pretty wicked weapons the Olmecs, Aztecs, and Mayans used in battle. I should make a completely bastardized version in shape of a Khukuri!


Ive already made the blades and the body of the sword using black walnut. Working on the handle now. Got to get most everything done before pitch gluing the blades in. Once the blades are installed one can only imagine how dangerous handling it might be.
Ha! Khukuuitl!!! I like the idea more and more. I bet it would be the only existing one on the planet!
 
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