New Folks Introduce Yourselves

Svashtar, over 20 years ago a pal and I were driving to LA and the car broke at Salinas. It was, I think, a Sunday night. Everyone was outside drinking, some kind of festival or just Sunday happiness i don't know. But the feeling in the air was OK. We weren't Mexican, but there was no threat, no gangs and just general merriment.

I drove through Central Ca because of a wedding I had to get to in Vegas this summer. All Central Cal has become a long industrial/housing city, and the heavy evil feeling of gangs was in the air.

Twenty years ago in Salinas, my friend kept shoving a huge Sensimilla (sic) bud in everyone's face, trying to trade for car repair. He was nuts. We weren't busted, but I was scared bad. The fool had an entire TRUNK full of the same bud.

Geeeze, was I glad to get out of there- some college buds came and rescued me.



munk
 
I am a 32 yr old former bombardier aerospace employee from dallas, texas.
i moved to japan to study budo full time.
I divorced kelly lebrock in 1999 and got married a japanese girl named Takako in 2001.
I am the great white ninja that the legends speak of.

(I am a big fan of the gelbu special and the HI bowie)
 
Now that you strangers are no stramger than anyone else I know......

My name is Brian. I'm outta Ft Worth and I am a collector for a major credit card company. (A title guaranteed to turn people away.) I collect guns, blades that speak to me, and anything else that catches my fancy. I do posting a several boards, always with the same handle. If you're out there and see me, say HI. (pun intended)

Brian
 
Bout 23 years ago in Salinas on the second night of our honeymoon, as we were turning in my bride said "That's my mother's suitcase." I responded with something to the effect of "so what about it?", figuring she'd just borrowed an extra suitcase. "Her clothes are in it!"

I calmly told her we'd get it sent to her mom in the morning, turned out the lights, and to this day she still remembers the bed jiggling as I tried to keep from laughing out loud.

( Hey, I just assumed all women traveled with three elephants worth of clothes and stuff. )
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SouthSide Salinas...33, Professional Bum
Hey Svashtar, here is a link for you if you dont have it already http://www.topica.com/lists/spd-pressreleases/read
here is the local Salinas P.D at work in front of my house
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Hi all, I'm middle age fellow (gaiging), IT Finance axed by the evil corporate during the Massacre in 03 (CA). Not doing too well with marriage either. Middle life crisis time. Ah Yosemite...
Former Military, reserved now waiting for deployment???
Not new to Kukris only found out HI recently and bought myself some blems. IMHO HI is the best Kukris from Nepal. Damn HIKV!
Also love wushu,shinkendo,scuba,fishing and nature. Next, hope to find a new life and a new job in Japan or Asia or MARs!
May the force be with US all....

Beatle, Doors fan
"Light My Fire "
 
I am 28 years old and a teacher of history and German literature at a grammar school. I live in "North-East-Upperfrankonia" that is the north eastern part of Bavaria near the Czech and the Saxonian borders - former "iron courtain" (some Frankonians are separatists so it is a problem to call someone living here a "Bavarian" - no "Lederhosen" here, no Oktoberfest but plenty of good beer from small breweries nevertheless). I am merried for two and a half years now, my wife and I got to know each other in Munich while shooting Bavarian championships in 1993. We are considered quite religious (lutheran).
I like archery a lot and train the local archery teams (olympic, compound, bare bow and longbow), climbing, running and swimming are the other sports I enjoy very much. I started with khukuries as I inherited a creek (well 6 kilometers of that creek) 1oo km south of my town (it is near the Grafenwoehr training area - 7th Army training command http://www.grafenwoehr.army.mil/7ATC/default.htm, 10th Area Support Group for those who know) where I have to clean the brush and the wood (up to small trees) occasionally to make the water flow and make fishing (one of my other hobbies) possible. I enjoy reading very much but often do not find the time as young teachers have a lot to work here...
In the holidays I like to go to Italy (DrDan knows why - beautiful country), Scandinavia (Sweden preferred) or backpachking in the Bavarian woods...
Nice to get to know each other better - did not know if I belong to the "new" ones" but never introduced myself here in this way. I like it, it is a bit like seeing the "mugshots" a while back - it is time to bring this "mugshot"-thread back to top, isn´t it?

Andreas
 
I think it would be kinda boring to live or grow up in a town that didn't have its seedy side. You have to have some forbidden place to sneak and explore. :)
Pan, I like traditional archery. I have a '52 Bear Kodiak recurve that I shoot with. Hopefully someday I'll be making my own arrows. :)
As for khukuris, a friend of mine lent me a book on Gurkhas and I was hooked. I found a beat-up old military style khukuri and that was my first. It is since lost, and I found HI when I decided to replace it.
 
Pan, I like traditional archery. I have a '52 Bear Kodiak recurve that I shoot with. Hopefully someday I'll be making my own arrows.
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I have a Sky Trophy longbow - at 70 lbs it is quite strong but I learnt to handle it (my others are a 40 lbs Okupniak (German producer) olympian bow and a 60 lbs Hoyt Striker compund bow). It was an occasion I had to take, the sky bows by Earl Hoyt are no longer made. Recently saw an offer that wanted over 800 Euros for such a bow - I paid 160 Euros for mine when "Amerika-Bogen" closed its gates.
Right now I am fletching arrows for the longbow (a new fletch every 20 minutes) while correcting essays. At school I have a history workshop where we made a mailshirt (parallel to the topic "knighthood" in the basic history lessons - and now we are producing longbow-arrows - the end of the knights. See here for last year´s results (I did the same thing last year with different classes of 7th graders) history project or here for photos arrow-photos or here for the mailshirt-photos mailshirt-photos
I cannot make bodkin-points and have to drill holes through the arrow shafts so they cannot be used as a weapon. Of course I must not produce weapons at schools - just wallhangers. It is hard for the boys when you make their arrows "useless". :(

Andreas
 
Bear Kodiak recurve ... I have one of those, with the little bear inset coin. Also shoot a Compound, PSE Vulcan Hunter.

Keith
 
I’m 47, 6’3”, 250lbs and live in New Hampshire, married to one of best woman there is , she has to be to have put up with me for the last 28 years. I have three kids which are almost all out of the house with the exception of the youngest boy who just keeps hanging around. I am an electrical engineer working for a small manufacturing company. Some of my too many interests are ocean kayaking, backpacking, hunting and knives. I’ve been collecting knives, here and there, since I was about six. This khuk obsession is relatively new and is pretty much due to Himalayan Imports and this site.
 
Names Stefan, 18 from London (England) and possibly the youngest forumite here. Also one of the newest (though I watched for a while) not to mention one of HI's latest satisfied customers. Unfortunatly the only way I am going to be able to afford even a blem in the next couple of months would be to sell my brother/girlfriend to white slave traders, a prospect that didn't seem so bad when the Sgt Karka bilton arrived I might add...
 
In hopes that an "older" forumite spilling the beans will get some more newbies to pony up.

Hey, if five newbies post after me, maybe it'll make YVSA or JP or some other really experienced forumites feel like posting their Bios.

Personal:
I'm 34, been married for 12 years, have a 17 month old daughter, live in the flatlands of the Midwest, Been studying various Martial Arts since 1976, settled on European Martial arts in full armor. I am a student of life and history, (and yes, my reasearch shows that we are doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again--unless everyone gets wise to the past:))
I've been a Bassist in many bands between 1987 and now, been playing bass fer that long as well. Still practice weekly with the guys.
I etch blades and build/modify furniture for blades, past and present. I do minor conservation on older (100+ yrs) weapons and tools. I have etched over a dozen HI pieces for forumites, and even a few fer meself.
Current knife projects: Etching a viking sword fer a marine buddy who recently returned from duty in Iraq, Finishing the filework on the spine of an HI AK Bowie, redesigning a sheath fer an HI seax, and making a small utility seax from an old Zartina (Soligen) straight razor as a by-knife fer the HI seax. Also restoring the trashed edge of a Kris Cutlery Panabas which was used to cut nails :o

Professional:
I have these BA degrees from Purdue university: BA Professional/Technical Writing, Medieval Studies. I have minors in History and English. I have been in the Sci Tech industry for 11 years, writing for many software companies and med tech co's. The last big co I worked for was Peregrine Systems, a company that got busted fer claiming false profits in excess of 100 million USD. Since then I've done contract work for the shrinking tech markets, Including validation work for a Proton radiotherapy device (one of 3 in the US) which is basically a huge proton cannon hooked up to to a cyclotron (gets protons up to near-light speeds). They use this to treat protate tumors and tumors in children.

Spirituality - I am an agent of the old gods of the North (i.e. the ones in europe b4 Xtianity) and uphold the honor of the true ways of my folk. I am Lawspeaker of Ravenswood Kindred, and I keep the peace amongst the folk. More here:
http://members.iquest.net/~chaviland/Rindex.html
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Hobbies:
Includes camping, travel, metalworking, music, cinema, reading, playing all sorts of card and dice games, colleting old and new weapons (with a more recent focus on old stuff (100+ yrs old), Chatting with Cantina folk.

Okay...who's next!

Keith
 
32 y/o current student at Augusta State U. in Georgia. Moved to Atlanta in '96 to study MA with Bud Malstrom. Job in telecom industry (Nextel) for some years. Divorced in '98. Joined Army late 2001. Out. :)

Approximately two years of college left, in which to find a good woman, and have some kids, which I want very badly. Eventually, I plan on writing for a living, but if you see "John Shirley" on a book or screenplay, it is the much older author John Shirley. I suppose I'll be forced to use my middle initial when I write.

I'm a hunter and shooter, and moderate on TheHighRoad.org. I like dogs. I'm a nominal Buddhist. I like tofu, but don't eat it much, since it emulates female hormones, and I'm "sensitive" enough as it is.

John R. Shirley
 
Lifted from an old post in the archives, had to update some of it as well as correct some spellink errors.:D

I am 63 years of age soon to be 64, born in Afton Oklahoma, a small town that's still small. Left there when I was 6 months old and traveled Turtle Island (The US of A.) with my parents. I was in 24 states by the time I was 13 and lived in most of them. My dad was an outlaw and we stayed one step ahead of the law except for minor skirmishes. I tried to kill him barehanded when I was 15, almost 16 and damn near did and would have if it hadn't of been for my mom. He was one that surely had it coming, but I am glad I don't have to live with that. Never did make peace with him and I am not sorry for that.

Got married the 1st time when I was 16, had to back in those days you know. After several tries finally grew up enough to deserve a good woman and I married her and it's been a happy going on 18 years the way it should be. More on that later.
Together we have 6 bio kids, several adopted into our family the ndn way and a total of 19 grandkids with 12 of them being bio g'kids not that there's any difference between
them.
I was a big ol' dumb kid that knew it all and yet still managed to survive. I love knives of all kinds, but favor the exotics like Khukuris and the Keris. I also love guns and what little formal, if you can call it that, martial arts I had was taught by a 9th grade coach and was Judo, other than that I learned it on the street and had the rep of a bad ass and a knife fighter. I wasn't a bad ass ,never was, never will be And dayumed sure don't want to be, but remember Old Age and Treachery Always overcomes Youth and Skill.:D

I finally got a bit of sense and decided if I didn't want to spend my life on a farm as a big ol' dumb kid that I needed a trade. And looking back on things have decided it wouldn't have been so bad except I probably wouldn't have made it as a farmer. They have to work to dayumed hard!! I got my 1st real job in a machine shop that had an Automatic Screw Machine and found that I liked it. I became a 1st class ASM Mechanic and not just an operator. Being an ASM mechanic means that you can do it all from running the machine to taking it apart, fixing it, and putting it back together better than new. I was one of the few in the states that could do that with as many machines as I could. Dayumed proud of that too!!!

I done my stint in So.Cal. like all good Okies do.:rolleyes: Then went to Oregon, another piece of God's country, Of Course ALL of Turtle Island is God's country, for a short stint until the bottom dropped out of the economy in 1980 then tucked my tail between my legs and came home to Oklahoma.
Was given 5 years to live in 1984 and copped a Horrible Attitude. Went Totally Out of Character!!!! Proved to myself and the doc's that everyone can be wrong. In the interim I got divorced, married and then decided the B&$#* didn't deserve anything I had if I did die, got divorced again and met Barb the Absolute Best & Most Beautiful Woman in The Whole World For -Me-!!!!

During the early part of our married life I hurt myself badly at work and then was diagnosed with Stills Disease which is the Systemic Adult Onset of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis which means it affects my whole body and not just the joints in 1998.
Got early retirement on 97% Disability finally.
Pretty much learned to live with it by now, but still gets me down now and then.:grumpy:

I grew up in the transition of this Great Nation and remember outhouses, Sears Catalogs, no phones, no TV, taking a bath on Saturday night in the 1st bath water.:D
And when a man's handshake was all it took to seal a contract. And wonderfully glad I found this place where the last is still so!!!

I am proud as hell about being Cherokee and Osage Indin and perhaps some Creek as well.
I am also very proud of my German, Scots, Irish heritage as well!

I follow the Traditional ways of my people and am not Christian.
I was given the right to the Sweatlodge for my family and friends a bit over ten years ago and am a recognized Spiritual leader among the ndn people around here and other places I have visited.
I finally got my Southern Straight Dance Regalia together four years ago, and started dancing in the Areana, danced one year and had to quit because of my health.
I am still a Gourd Dancer as well and have been at that for about 10-11 years now but I have to dance by being held up with my walking stick.
That's about it folk's. Thousands of stories in between, some sad, some happy and Some downright Funny ones on Myself!!!

AND I ain't Done Yet!!!!:D

Edit:
Had to revise some of the info about dancing in the last paragraph.:rolleyes:
 
Hey,
Since where introducing ourselves, I'll join in.
My name is Mike, I'm 43, married for
4 going on 5 years and have a 2yr old son. I'm a Software engineer and I live and work in NJ( the Southern half).
My intrests are guns(mostly old military),
archery, Japanese swords, Ethnographic weapons; currently keris, weapons of Islam and of course khukri, I also have a great intrest in smithing, metallurgy, and home improvement. Of course because of the afformentioned, wife, son and home improvement I have very little money left over to indulge my hobbies. My first and so far only HI khuk was a blemished 15" AK by Kumar for weed wacking. Well that should be more then enough. Forgot to mention an intrest in the Martial Arts although no longer practicing.
 
I'm a 51 year old Family Physician and Acupuncturist with interests in woodworking, guns, koi, katana and things Japanese in general. Half Japanese, half German descent, grew up a military kid. Happily married, with four kids and one dog, living in Redlands, CA. Got interested in khuks from b-i-l Don Nelson about six months ago and am up to eight khuks of various denominations now (nice blades, and a lot cheaper than katana!) Enjoy perusing the Cantina - keep it up!
 
I'm 35, 6' ,248 lbs, surgeon by profession Mumbai, India.Hobbies are collecting knives,coins[mainly indian],reading,computer games [strategy] when i get the time.
Was always fascinated by khukris since I was a kid as a lot of the security guards in India are gurkha and the khukri is ever present.
Bought my first khukri on my trip to Nepal in '91. Received my first HI khuk about 2 months back, a 25" sirupati by Bura and i absolutely love it. Had to BS my way through customs though but was lucky because the deputy commissioner was convinced that I would constitute no threat to the general public with the siru in my possession:D.But I have decided to wait for some time before I snag another blem and try my luck with the next batch of officers.The Blem Attack before Christmas was really painful because I had to watch a procession of Gelbu specials, chitlangis and other goodies pass by without being able to grab them for the reasons stated earlier.
Posting after Yvsa I must mention that he is one of my favourites on the forum.I really appreciate the great advice,tips,pearls of wisdom to be found on this forum.
Yaj.
 
It's not neccesary to list your weight until the actual bidding process has begun.


thanks,



munk
 
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