My First Khukuri

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My first khukuri a BAS Vilager has finally arived and though my inhabiliy to drive and recieve mail at my current address has unfortuantly made it so I have not yet seen it I am told by my boy fried(/postmaster)that it is even better than I explained. I can't wait untill after work when I get to go get it :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Bella

PS Where is everyone?
 
Holiday weeks like this are usually slow. Only the crazies like us are at the screen. The "normal" folks are out having fun.
 
GOOD on you, Gal!!! Waiting for the villager is good practice for waiting on your special :) DO NOT do to your postmaster friend what I have done to my postman. He now has his own Garud, and won't leave until I have opened any package from Reno. I'm afraid to tell him I'm about to have another one onthe way - may have to feed him 'til it gets here.
 
It's always fun waiting on a package from Reno. You'll definitely enjoy the BAS, it's a good knife. Do you know who made it?

...And how do you know we aren't all here, lurking in the shadows???
 
And I obviously don't, :( I'll post some immediate impressions on her new BAS villager. I got to see it while I chauffered her mouching butt around yesterday. First, it looks tiny. :) This of course is said by a person who's smallest khukuri is about 19" long. :) It has a great shape to it, and feels light, and easy to swing.
When Uncle Bill says that they're not as well polished as the standard HI fare, he was not kidding. This thing is very rough, every inch of the blade was covered in grind marks. Also, the karda and chakma were fairly small, but if they're hard enough they can still be useful. Oh and the handle on one of the tools was roughly finished, and has a lot of splinter potential. All this said, it has its own charms, and I need to get a villager some day.

Oh, BTW, that reminds me, Bella made the joke yesterday at work. <i>Bella imitating me</i> Uncle Bill, can I get a free khukuri, if I wave four in front of Bella. :) This is because I continue to look at all the archives for <i>The perfect khukuri</i> and she sits next to me falling in love with everything she sees!

Bob
 
Thanks, Bob. The village models show us how much extra effort goes into an HI khukuri to get it looking the way it does. At one point in the process all HI villages look pretty much like the villagers.
 
Her boyfriend/fiance/freak she's in love with, is dreaming about buying a Gil Hibbern UNC knife that could never be used. What would everyone here have, give the similar prices???

Bob
 
Sorry to be such a mouch babe but when your mother is the picture of a responsible parent as mine is you get really good at bumming rides (I can't drive because of a long long long list of medical problems that have resulted in the goverment banning me from ever being behind the wheel of anything that can go more then 5 mph) and yes my sweety is an idiot when it cames to determining a good knife but I am working on that. I don't fall in love with every thing you show me (just 90%)

any way just though i'd defend myself

bella

oh and I, of course, love my knife :D:D:D:D:D
 
Sold my vehicle for school tuition over a year ago. Now no carpayment, no insurance, no maintenace costs and most importantly the stress level related to driving is zero :) Public transit is actually OK? Where else can you sit next to a rank, belching wino and listen to an 'insightful' 15 min dissertation on the woes of the country :D

BTW, glad you like the Khukuri. Villagers are GREAT for that take along thrasher blade!
 
I just read an interview in Green Living with a fellow who says if you include the time you spend working to pay for your car and gas, maintenance, etc. with the time you spend driving it, you're actually making about five miles per hour.

He didn't give any figures to support that and he may have been exaggerating, but it's food for thought....

Bella, if you can resist 10% of the khukuris you see you have more willpower than some of us ... even Jim Clifton, the most intellectual researcher of us all, doesn't have that much willpower.
 
Congradulations Bella, There will never be another first with all the anticipation and excitment of it arriving and opening it up with trembling fingers of expectation. But that IS JUST the first Villager, theres the first Gelbu Special ( that I strongly recommend if it's by Bura) the first AK, etc, etc, etc. Have fun.:D :D :D
 
Congratulations, Bella.

You've got your first villager and now have a 20" sirupati on the way. Once the BF sees that he won't need a Gil Hibben "fantasy knife". It looks like you made some excellent choices for your first khukuris. Even if you never bought another you'd be doing well. It's extremely hard not to buy more, though. I'm afraid it's too late for you.:) As I've said, HIKV is a form of chronic anemia. You just have to keep getting your regular doses of iron, however unusual the shape of the "pills.":)

Paul
 
Bobs making fun of me for being really slow today :( because it took me a while to get the pill thing......I'm not usually this slow though.....but I am definatly looking into getting more pills :)

Bella
 
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