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I also hate to put the first marks on a beautiful BirGhorka blade, but they are made for using even if most will qualify for museum quality pieces.
And yet I have been privileged to hold and admire some old pieces that
were no doubt museum pieces when they were made as well. They all have a beautiful patina over a wonderul polish and with the scratches and scuffs that add character they are as beautiful as the new blades.
I can visualize the people that first received these old blades and wonder if they had the same reluctance to use something so beautiful as well. On the other hand I doubt they waited long to put their blades to work since it very well may have been the only one they had even though it may have cost them dearly.
I think our problem is that we're too spoiled and having access to almost any khukuri or any other beautiful finely made knife that we desire makes us so.
I have a couple of old primitive butcher knives that do not have the fit and finish that we are commonly used to today but they are still beautiful to me and I bet they were beautiful to their first owners as well since they performed their tasks excellently and efficiently.
And these roughly finished old knives may have cost their owners as dearly as those other finely made and finished knives cost their owners. These old tools were the best that the original owners could afford.
The fact that the khukuri's from BirGhorka today are the best the world has ever seen in every aspect and that they are very much less costly compared to the same quality of any hand made knife made almost anywhere in the world today makes them very desirable not only as collector items comparable to the very best knives the world has ever known it also makes them some of the very best using knives available in todays world.
And like the old knives from the world's renowned makers of the past such as Sheffield, Solingen, and Toledo some people less fortunate than most of us may have to save and scrimp to have one of the best khukuris ever made.
And since that khukuri may be the only one they will ever be able to afford they will take the very best care of it possible, not mistreating it in use and cleaning and oiling it when finished with the days work, that khukuri may very well be passed on as a famiy heirloom that will be used and cherished for
generations.
Those khukuris will be the ones with the oh so lovely patina, scars, and bruises that will be admired by the generations yet to
come.
Like all of the Himlayan Import's Khukuri's the YCS was made to use and with proper care it too could someday be one of those beautiful old well cared for blades that are admired by those of us who will always love the art of fine
steel.
And in spite of all I wrote I am still hesitant to use my YCS and her tool's, but hopefully I will be able to overcome that. She deserves to be used along with all of her tool's!
.Yvsa.
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I also hate to put the first marks on a beautiful BirGhorka blade, but they are made for using even if most will qualify for museum quality pieces.
And yet I have been privileged to hold and admire some old pieces that
were no doubt museum pieces when they were made as well. They all have a beautiful patina over a wonderul polish and with the scratches and scuffs that add character they are as beautiful as the new blades.
I can visualize the people that first received these old blades and wonder if they had the same reluctance to use something so beautiful as well. On the other hand I doubt they waited long to put their blades to work since it very well may have been the only one they had even though it may have cost them dearly.
I think our problem is that we're too spoiled and having access to almost any khukuri or any other beautiful finely made knife that we desire makes us so.
I have a couple of old primitive butcher knives that do not have the fit and finish that we are commonly used to today but they are still beautiful to me and I bet they were beautiful to their first owners as well since they performed their tasks excellently and efficiently.
And these roughly finished old knives may have cost their owners as dearly as those other finely made and finished knives cost their owners. These old tools were the best that the original owners could afford.
The fact that the khukuri's from BirGhorka today are the best the world has ever seen in every aspect and that they are very much less costly compared to the same quality of any hand made knife made almost anywhere in the world today makes them very desirable not only as collector items comparable to the very best knives the world has ever known it also makes them some of the very best using knives available in todays world.
And like the old knives from the world's renowned makers of the past such as Sheffield, Solingen, and Toledo some people less fortunate than most of us may have to save and scrimp to have one of the best khukuris ever made.
And since that khukuri may be the only one they will ever be able to afford they will take the very best care of it possible, not mistreating it in use and cleaning and oiling it when finished with the days work, that khukuri may very well be passed on as a famiy heirloom that will be used and cherished for
generations.
Those khukuris will be the ones with the oh so lovely patina, scars, and bruises that will be admired by the generations yet to
come.
Like all of the Himlayan Import's Khukuri's the YCS was made to use and with proper care it too could someday be one of those beautiful old well cared for blades that are admired by those of us who will always love the art of fine
steel.
And in spite of all I wrote I am still hesitant to use my YCS and her tool's, but hopefully I will be able to overcome that. She deserves to be used along with all of her tool's!
.Yvsa.
