:o Woods for HI Khuk Handles.

mohd

mohd

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Dear Pakcik Bill and Forumites!

Refering to thread http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum53/HTML/000829.html whereby Pakcik Bill mentioned ...
... Handle is the hill walnut ... Gelbu told me the native name for this wood which I promptly forgot so I emailed him asking to tell me again. I'll post it when I get it lest I forget again! ...
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I guess I would like to throw out few Qs about variety of woods out of my curiousity and due to my ignorance in this particular subject matter! It might help me & others a lot ... especially in causing more headache to Pakcik Bill and his log of orders!
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  • How many type of woods are chosen as handle materials for HI Khuks so far?
  • What are their English and Nepalese names?
  • What are their characteristics especially their wood texture and grain?[/list=a]I guess I just manage to list few of them only ... of course an incomplete one!
    1. Red Oak --- red colour --- fine grain --- hard wood.
    2. Saatisal --- ?
    3. Hill Walnut --- brown colour --- slightly course grain --- semi hard wood.
    4. Chandan --- ?
    5. Honeylocust --- yellow colour --- fine grain --- hard wood[/list=a]
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      Help ….!

      NEPAL HO!
 
mohd,
Lots of good info and links on chandan (sandalwood), including the sad fact that we won't be seeing it again, is in this thread. Here is one of the 3 or so surviving pieces:
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That is a 21" sirupati, SN1 from Shop 2 before it became BirGorkha. The handle, and those on the karda & chakma below it, are chandan. The 2 upper pieces are from a visiting kami's 20" chainpuri-handled sirupati made in Shop 2 about the same time. The handle on the karda is also chandan (apparently scrap lying around the shop); the chakma is rosewood, I believe. Lovely wood, but apparently better for incense than khukuri handles
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Berk
 
Well, it is certainly "Handy" ;-) sorry, bad pun

The sirupati "blem" that I ordered last week came in yesterday. Here's what I have to say: Much as I admire the kobra and still think it is an amazing knife, the sirupati w/ the hill walnut handle fits PERFECTLY in my hand. It is even lighter than the kobra, and handles better for me.

Uncle, any more of these 'blem' sirupatis w/ Haandey handles left? I think I just might have to get a pair of these
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J
 
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