Proper use of Pegboard Hooks / The HIKV Contagion in the NW

Awesome Bawanna! Its amazing how nice a simple peg board can look when accompanied by gorgeous kukris. Thanks for sharing the photos.
 
Bookie said:
Bawanna, I am THE counselor. Take two aspirin and see me in the morning. The challenge has been accepted! Gehazi's thrown down the gauntlet! (Wish he'd throw the other one, too, as I need a pair.) Me got'em walnut. Me gonna make'm itty-bitty khuk sized rifle rack. Non-adjustable, but for various size khuks. Maybe 6 to 8 blades for a starter...and maybe a little shelf at the bottom for a certain super-special, one of a kind MMB (you have permission to go look that up on the abbreviation list) and it's just as super-special one of a kind pair of pants. I'm still overwhelmed with the knife and it's rig, guys! Thanks a lot.....wow. I sound like a nice guy. Heat musta got to my head or something, eh?
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More likely frozen, from them recent photo's of corn patch I'd say heat ain't a problem.

Some things in life are just gotten and some things in life are EARNED!. Me thinks you earned that MMB and pants, although I haven't went and looked it up yet so not sure what the heck your talking about.

Hope this nice guy phase stays around a spell, kind of different ya know?
 
looking forward to it bookie, we need to work on more armory displays worthy of the HI hand crafted goods-- I am toying with the idea too , but I am toying with a lot of ideas because of all the pain pills--

side subject: don't put off dental work kids, I went and had a dentist pop a tooth out and punch me in the face for about 2 hours while he did cocaine behind me and ran around talking about how cool and awesome everything was -- he even punched me in the arm saying "2015 fuck yeah"... so yeah like the strangest dentist visit I have ever been on.-

- but that is why I am staying home and unable to operate heavy machinery right now.
 
The blade on the bottom of the arrangement...noob question...is it a smatchet? Where did you get it?

(Also, wow! what a collection.)
 
Darth wins the internet today.

A very good friend who used to be a member here, still stops in from time to time, sent me that with no handle, just the tang and the blade, it was in a sheath (wood, quite fancy) that it didn't want to come out of. He's a project kind of guy but sent it to me as a project.

I looked at pictures on the internet, you can see anything on the internet and whittled me a new handle, then oiled and coerced the sheath until it went in and out. I should hang the sheath too, it's kind of pretty too.

It's amazingly light and would be great for a lot of lighter duty chores. I've retired it to the wall, don't want to damage that one.

Oh and to be clear, that is one of the very few on the "Wall" that isn't an HI knife. Most everything else except a few smaller knives is HI through and through.
 
Moonw said:
The blade on the bottom of the arrangement...noob question...is it a smatchet? Where did you get it?

(Also, wow! what a collection.)
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I'd agree, a barong not a smatchet. The Smatchet blade is more symmetric, and has a straight handle centered on the tip with a really big pommel. I have seen a smatchet in the HI catalog before though, though never heard of any being made.
 
Don't see them often but I've seen a smatchet or two listed by auntie.

One of the ones I held when I was in Reno as I recall too, Really something.
 
Bawanna said:
Don't see them often but I've seen a smatchet or two listed by auntie.

One of the ones I held when I was in Reno as I recall too, Really something.
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I'd be interested to see some of those. The picture in the catalog isn't to my liking, but I'd be interested to see what the ones that have been sold look like. Someday I will own a smatchet.
 
Gehazi, used to be a dentist in town who was closing in on 60. Unknowingly got into his Granddaughter's Alice B. Toklas brownies one day and never looked back. Really did a turn around. Wore Birkenstocks in the office, Che Guevara t-shirts, and let his hair grow so long it'd drop into patient's open mouths. Had a come to Jesus meeting one evening with the BCI. Haven't seen him in a couple three years........
 
Bawanna said:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...d-a-crazy-thought-HI-Smatchet!?highlight=Vala

See post 4, this was from way back. I thought there were some much more recently but durned if I can find em.
If Steve Tall is about, he'll find em. Man is a bloodhound for finding stuff.
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Here's one that I got from Yangdu in December 2013:

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It's by Bhakta, 14" OAL and 28 oz. Quite the beast, at 2 oz per inch and perfectly made like every blade by Bhakta that I've seen. In answer to Scara's comment, this blade seems less wide than the one in the older post mentioned above. Also, the guard sticks out quite a bit further from the edges of the blade.

I don't know when it was made, since Yangdu didn't post it. One day I just got a hankering for a Spear Vala, sent her an email and she happened to have one. I think this must have been part of the newer run of Spear Valas that Karda anticipated in his 2011 email. The older ones were 16" OAL and a whopping 44 oz.
 
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Bookie, I can't WAIT to see what a Bookie Khukie Wall Hanger will look like, I bet it will be AWESOME!
 
Bawanna,
A Puukko is a Scandanavian (Finnish and that area) everyday work blade. Made with a round hilt and a flat topped blade with 1 cutting edge with a rounded-up tip.

It is pretty much used for everything especially hunting and fishing. to paraphrase the wiki-folk: In Finland carrying a blade in public spaces without a permit or job related reason is prohibited. Currently, the only urban areas where they can be seen carried openly are garrisons. The puukko is the only civilian item which can be openly worn as a part of a soldier's combat gear without breaching Finnish Army regulations, and most conscripts bring their own puukkos with them into military service. It is a custom of Finnish conscripts, non-commissioned officers, and officer cadets to carry a decorated and engraved commemorative puukko of their year course as a part of their uniform, not unlike a commemorative dagger. This is rationalized as the carrying of a handy tool, but it also doubles as a symbolic sidearm.

In Finland, receiving a puukko as a gift is considered an honor. The idea behind this is the presenter gives the recipient a tool which is essential for both woodworking, preparing food and as a sidearm, and that the presenter takes into account the well-being of the recipient
 
Shavru - Very interesting, I always knew what a puukko was, but never the background, and cultural significance behind it. Thanks...
 
I spaced out and neglected to get a picture of that. I'll get it done, got a hatchet rehandle project I hope to post pictures of too.

Might just be a puukko.
 
I feel for any poor bastard, stupid enough, that tries to break into any of your houses!
 
Baetis said:
I feel for any poor bastard, stupid enough, that tries to break into any of your houses!
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I have a pretty good idea what that might look like:D
 
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