Greetings everyone,
First I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm an engineering student (computer engineering) as anyone can tell by the permanent black rings under my eyes. I've been playing pentjak silat for a couple of years now (since I dont live in the woods I need some kind of excuse for my interest in knives
) Anyways I've been lurking on this forum for almost a year now, started prior to my first order which of course determined my choice of khukuris (had been thinking of getting the cold steel one but after handling one at a knife show and all the positive comments and feedback from this forum, not to mention the "star wars cantina" atmosphere as someone said, well it just had to happen.
so on to the good stuff, after careful deliberation for sometime I put an order in with uncle bill for a 20" ang khola unfortunatly he was out of stock at the time and a couple of months passed I got a message on my machine that one had come in in a shipment did I still want it? Hell yes and wow not three days later I was down at the post office to pick the package up...now I knew beforehand it was going to be a pretty big knife, but I wasnt prepared for the size box they handed over to me...my awe was just beginning as the moment I got it home and ripped the box to shreds and unwrapped the well I was at a lost for words this thing was huge all I could think was wow I ordered a sword, I comparing this to my other knives is a bit like comparing a hacksaw to a chainsaw...and size aside this knife if we must call it that was absolutely beautiful in both a functional sense and an aesthetic sense, so after swinging it around endlessly (and thus developing the necessaring forearm strength, another secret benefit to the 20" AK) and dropping it once in a rather ill advised move thus nearly creating a new section to my sectional couch, I unknowing had caught khukuri fever and promptly emailed off an order for one of the first or second batches of villagers, I mean you need something to keep in the car) so now armed with a monster and a burning desire to cut things (preferably things other than my furniture or feet) I headed up to my parents place to hack apart some dead oaks and cherry trees ( I own a condo unit and the homeowner agreement has rules against removing trees and running bordellos or churches which kind of puts a kink in my plan to start up a khukuri sex cult but thats life), it performed as expected which is perfectly taking most of the smaller limbs off in a single whack once I got the hang of the blade shape and most of the medium branches took only a few hits.
So anyways the other day the fever hit again and soon will have that wwII with the chiruwa handle uncle bill put up the other day, will let you know how it goes, it may be awhile though since finals are next week and I still have a group project which in regards to uncles quote "there is now project that can not be done without too much help" I definatly have too much help, and though I personally think the AK would be a good management tool the administration tends to frown on these things
salam hormat,
crow
First I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm an engineering student (computer engineering) as anyone can tell by the permanent black rings under my eyes. I've been playing pentjak silat for a couple of years now (since I dont live in the woods I need some kind of excuse for my interest in knives
so on to the good stuff, after careful deliberation for sometime I put an order in with uncle bill for a 20" ang khola unfortunatly he was out of stock at the time and a couple of months passed I got a message on my machine that one had come in in a shipment did I still want it? Hell yes and wow not three days later I was down at the post office to pick the package up...now I knew beforehand it was going to be a pretty big knife, but I wasnt prepared for the size box they handed over to me...my awe was just beginning as the moment I got it home and ripped the box to shreds and unwrapped the well I was at a lost for words this thing was huge all I could think was wow I ordered a sword, I comparing this to my other knives is a bit like comparing a hacksaw to a chainsaw...and size aside this knife if we must call it that was absolutely beautiful in both a functional sense and an aesthetic sense, so after swinging it around endlessly (and thus developing the necessaring forearm strength, another secret benefit to the 20" AK) and dropping it once in a rather ill advised move thus nearly creating a new section to my sectional couch, I unknowing had caught khukuri fever and promptly emailed off an order for one of the first or second batches of villagers, I mean you need something to keep in the car) so now armed with a monster and a burning desire to cut things (preferably things other than my furniture or feet) I headed up to my parents place to hack apart some dead oaks and cherry trees ( I own a condo unit and the homeowner agreement has rules against removing trees and running bordellos or churches which kind of puts a kink in my plan to start up a khukuri sex cult but thats life), it performed as expected which is perfectly taking most of the smaller limbs off in a single whack once I got the hang of the blade shape and most of the medium branches took only a few hits.
So anyways the other day the fever hit again and soon will have that wwII with the chiruwa handle uncle bill put up the other day, will let you know how it goes, it may be awhile though since finals are next week and I still have a group project which in regards to uncles quote "there is now project that can not be done without too much help" I definatly have too much help, and though I personally think the AK would be a good management tool the administration tends to frown on these things
salam hormat,
crow
