My GANGA RAM!!!

danboy357 said:
I just got my GRS 22" 65 ouncer today (friday) and all I got to say is damn it feels good to be a gangster.
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LOL!!
I know the feeling!!

I'd love to try a 22" Ganga Ram, but I think it would be too big for me to do a lot of work with. My 18" GRS is 31oz, I can only imagine what a 22" @ 65oz feels like. My shoulder hurts just thinking about it.
 
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Dirtbiker said:
Be very, very careful with that thing. 65 oz can get away very easily.
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No kidding!! And 65 oz of Ganga Ram isn't going to want to stop with a little skin damage. That blade would go deep, maybe even through the bone. Cutting one's own leg off would definitely ruin a weekend...
 
I dont think ill be using it much. Not unless I am attacked by a rhino or equivelant and only have one good shot anyway.
 
danboy357 said:
I dont think ill be using it much. Not unless I am attacked by a rhino or equivelant and only have one good shot anyway.
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The only thing i can think of using it is to attend the annual Dashain in Nepal (would you happened to be working in an abattoir?)
 
Nah, I only kill personally out of absolute necessity. I don't even kill bugs except mosquito's; and fly's when they come in the house. Oh and stink bugs. Damn stink bugs. Anyway, I plan tp end up with a couple dozen HI khuks before its over so I had to get this one for the collection. No reason not to, its a 4lb knife afterall and beautiful one.
 
chaibill said:
where do you order these?
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I ordered mine off the Himilayan Imports website. Though you can also find them for sale on this form with the DOTD(Deal of the day) sales. Look around the forum, there is a lots of info to be had about how to buy HI Khukuri.
 
Some info on the fish mark (hit the little arrows in the blue box next to the username in the quote to go to the thread):

Yangdu said:
Four months ago we opened new shop number three with our two new Kamis,
Arjun and Lok BK, and the foreman, Jay Ram. My father is
supervising them and teaching them to make quality products.
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Here are few pix of new Kamis
Enjoy!

L to r

Arjun, Jay Ram and Lok BK
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Lok BK came from Shindupalchok near Kathmandu

Arjun came from Dharan

Jay Ram came from Charikot districk
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Another picture of the fish signature:

GoodStuff said:
(1) By Lok (the hanshe, which i love.) His mark is a very well done and complicated fish design.

Hanshe by Lok

Both of these men make straight smooth blades. Worth getting one just for the beautiful kami marks alone.
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there is a MONSTER ganga ram out there... 4-5 feet long. Rishar? yeah, i think him.

such a weird thing that is. i want it :D well, you know, for safe keeping :D

the largest one i have is VERY LARGE, but not as big as a HI Falcata
 
That is a awesome looking blade. What is the difference in the Ram and the Villager? Is the Ram a form of Villager? I'm new to all this kukri stuff but looking to get one.
 
StarsAndBars said:
That is a awesome looking blade. What is the difference in the Ram and the Villager? Is the Ram a form of Villager? I'm new to all this kukri stuff but looking to get one.
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In HI parlance, "villager" is really an adjective describing a level to which a knife is finished. There are the highly polished versions and the "villager" versions in which the blade usually has a satin finish and the handle might be less polished. They're called "villagers" because they are a little closer to what might be found in an actual Nepali village, but realistically they are probably still done to a higher standard than what most Nepalis could afford.

Some forumites prefer the villager satin finish because it is easier to maintain in actual use, e.g., camping or chopping. A highly polished finish gets scratched up pretty easily and is more work to keep polished. Some models come only one way, usually. For example, all the ASTKs I've seen have the satin finish, but you could polish one yourself or special order a polished version.

If you buy directly from Yangdu you can tell her whether you prefer a polished or villager version of whatever model you like. If you try to shark a DOTD (Deal Of The Day) here on the forum, it depends on whatever she happens to post here, and of course you have to be fast because other forumites might want it. (First email to Yangdu gets a DOTD; you can't get it just by posting here.)

Villagers are not necessarily lower quality, nor are they necessarily less expensive than their polished siblings.

Just to confuse things a bit, there are a couple of new models, Ugly Villagers and KLUVKs, that are even less finished. They still have the dark forging scales on the blade and typically are much less expensive than the others, with no loss of strength or functionality. The nice thing about these is that you can use them with no worry at all about marring the finish, since there isn't any. :) I have one of the Ugly Villagers. It is somewhat unfair to call them "ugly" because they have a functional beauty of their own. My UV has one of the most comfortable handles of any knife that I own, and it is a very practical length and weight.

By the way, some of the Ganga Rams are enormously heavy knives that a person of normal size and strength could not wield effectively or for very long. Like the 22" 65oz models that one sees from time to time. They have great appeal if you become a collector, but not the first blade you'd pick up to go out and do some real work. :) Like many others, I started out with the idea that bigger is better, but lately I've been mostly sticking to Khukuris in the 15" - 18" range and preferably under 30 oz.
 
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