My GRS Is Playing With My Mind!!!

Big Bob

Big Bob

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Over the week or so that I've had my GRS, I've become very familiar with the concept of relativity. A couple of days after receiving the GRS, I pulled my 16.5" WWII out of its sheath and was shocked by its appearance. To me, it looked as though the blade had been replaced by one from a sirupati!
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I'm not kidding, I half-thought that someone had snuck into my room and ground the blade narrower.

Yesterday, the 25" khukuri I got a few weeks ago came in the mail. The last few inches of the blade before the tip weren't hardened enough and it had folded while chopping wood. I had exchanged it for the GRS, but bought it back at a reduced price because I just didn't feel right not having it (BTW, you did a hell of a good job refurnishing the part of the blade that had folded, Bill). When I had first looked at the 25 incher's blade, it was very wide to me, maybe a little too wide for its shape. Now compared to the GRS, the blade on the 25 incher looks narrow, and the difference in blade width is only 3/16".

Bob

[This message has been edited by Big Bob (edited 04-20-2001).]
 
That is one of the really neat things about having different kuk's of varying sizes and shapes- they grow and shrink all the time. After handling my 22" GRS, my 22" GS looks like a switch. After handling the 22" GS, the WWII looks like a paring knife. These spacial distortions and the enjoyment of them may be just another symtom of HIKV.

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"To Know and to Act are One"
 
You are just going to have to get more khuks so that the others can lean on the Ganga when it gets out of line, and acts in a headstrong manner

Remember, the Ganga Ram is the ( so to speak ) 800 pound gorilla of the khuks and used to doing whatever it pleases. You need to have several other big khuks for counterbalance it, to keep it from feeling lonely at at odds with itself.
 
You have to keep your mind in balance! When you've been playing with your GRS too long and your mind gets unbalanced, get out the smallest karda you have and whittle with it for an hour or so ... but not too long, or you'll get unbalanced the other way and have to chop down a redwood with one of those buffalo decapitators to get centered again....


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Yup.
All of the smaller knives I have are now thought of as kardas.
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And what I used to think of as big knives are now thought of as little ones.
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Yvsa-G@WebTV.net

"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
Ain't that the truth. When I flick open my 4" folder to open up a box some of my friends look aghast (City folks, y'know
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). To me it's one notch above a pen-knife.

[This message has been edited by DocPat2511 (edited 04-20-2001).]
 
Whenver my GRS, AK, or UBE Beast start looking big and feeling heavy, I can always pull out a two-handed broadsword and regain a "knife" perspective.


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"To Know and to Act are One"
 
I keep a 30" Sirupati to swing to pull by back and shoulders into alignment.

But I do play with a Bastard 48" Del Tin and a 59" MRI Ravenna Large War Sword on occassion. I like to place the blade tip on the floor and rest the pommel under my nose with my elbows resting on the crossguard and my hands up by my chin.

So what do you weild Finn?

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"Ayo Ghorapani!"

April 18, 2001 to April 21, 2001; Walker Lake, Nevada "Flyway of the Loons Festival".
 
Never tried that technique Rusty. The two-hander I mentioned is from Medieval Arms of Oklahoma City. It's only about 50" long overall but has a 2 1/4" wide blade with no taper and heavy brass furniture. I've had it for eight years so I don't know if the guy is still around. I'm familiar with both weapons you mentioned. I have gazed longingly on the MRL "Ravenna" before.
They (two-handers) do tend to pull things back in place, and sometimes out of place, I remember.

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"To Know and to Act are One"

[This message has been edited by Finn (edited 04-20-2001).]
 
When I need perspective I pick up my 13 pound double-bladed battle axe and swing it around. The Khuk always seem much lighter and faster afterwards
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13 Lb Battle Axe!?!?!?!!?!?
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Mc is that a "one hander" for
you?
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Of course putting it in perspective it's really not all that much I guess, most of the wood splitting mauls go about 8 Lbs.
But the one I think that's called
"The Monster Maul" I believe goes
16 Lbs.
Way to much for me either way now-a-days.

But there was once upon a time when I went with a good friend over to a farm where he was doing some work for the people that owned the
place.
And a nice place it was to. It was very well kept and
neat.
There was an extra large barbell loaded with cast iron weights out by the barn.
Lloyd told me to pick it up and put it over my head full
up.
I told him there was No Way I could do that!!!
Lloyd told me to just try to pick it up then.
So I went over to the barbell and got a good stance and wiped my hands on my jeans and got a hold of the bar.
I jerked it up and with an extra little bit of effort did put it over my head straight up!!!
I then wondered, out loud, how I was gonna put it down.
Lloyd told me to just drop it.
There probably wasn't any breaking of that monstrous piece of iron but it wasn't mine and I didn't have permission to mess with it so I let it down to chest high and then dropped it while jumping back out of its way.
I then, like a dayumed fool, asked Lloyd what it weighed instead of doing that in the first place.
LLoyd told me it weighed 220 Lbs and if I didn't believe him to count the numbers on the
discs.
It did weigh 220!!!!!
But,-- that was back when I was 15 years old,weighed 155 Lbs and I had been working in the hay fields bucking and hauling hay besides working with my grandpa doing some fairly heavy
plumbing.
Biggest pipe we were using was 2 1/2" in 21 foot
joints.
Oh for the "Good Ol' Days!!!
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Now I weigh 55 Lbs more than that barbell.
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[This message has been edited by Yvsa (edited 04-21-2001).]
 
Yvsa, The axe is 50" OAL and the blade edges run 17.5". There is no real application for it, so I keep a flat edge on both heads so as to not accidentally lose a limb. But, I use it for warm-ups and to get that great expression on the face of someone who's never seen it before.
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Interesting stuff, all.

Bro, another path we have both travelled. When I was a kid I worked summers on a custom hay baler and our crew would bale hay all over SE KS. When the hay was damp those bales would come out at 100 to 120 pounds and putting this stuff 8 or 10 high into the loft of a barn with corrugated steel roof in 100+ degree August afternoons was no easy task. I figure I'd last 15 minutes today before I fell down dead

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
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[This message has been edited by Bill Martino (edited 04-21-2001).]
 
I remember bucking bales with a hay hook, up onto a low-boy, next guy up to the trailer, someone else to stack it.

I also remember harvesting almonds by dragging heavy tarps around a tree, hooking an eccentric cam on the tractor's power take off, and a cable to the tree. Then after that, going around with a baseball bat wrapped with rubber ( so not to damage the tree ) and pounding the limbs to get the rest off. Almond husks have something like peach fuzz your shaking breaks loose into the air. So there you are in 90 to 100 degree weather, in the sand which is tilled and tilled again to the consistency of talcum powder, with fuzz falling on youu from above ... I hate almonds.
 
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Bro we three it appears know what the hay fields were like.
Lloyd and me made one helluva team!
There were only 2 guys that we knew who were as fast as we were.
Bill Tidwell and Carol Webster.
I don't know how they did it.
Loyd an me were unloading onto a conveyor belt and Bill and Carol were in the loft, bare-footed and shirtless. They were waiting on the last bale when we threw it on the conveyor.
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Mc an axe that size wouldn't need to be to sharp to lop off a limb!!!!
And/or to split wood either I imagine.
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Yvsa-G@WebTV.net

"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
Two and a half to three cents a bale- whew, the stuff I could and did do as a kid, and will never do again!

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"To Know and to Act are One"
 
We got paid 40 cents per ton. We had a four man team -- tractor driver, wire poker, wire tier, and one who rode the wagon and stacked the bales. Generally, we would rotate jobs every wagon load. We only helped get the hay in the barn when a storm was brewing or after the field was all baled. Hot, dirty hard work and one of the reasons I decided to go to college.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
Himalayan Imports Archives (33,000 + posts)
Himalayan Imports Shopping Site
 
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