Rajkumar's Dragon Sword

Kinda looks like an Indonesian or Bali kriss dagger but no point. Love the bolster and guard!
 
I already have a wajaski from Rajkumar and it is so perfect! Love it! So I am really excited about getting the Dragon sword! :D Thank you so much Yangdu! You are a pleasure to do business with!
 
I have a Raj Kumar Ang Khola and I agree with the craftsmanship. It was a blem and I repaired it with epoxy and have been using it relentlessly! As far as the cracked handles you have to consider the fact that HI has to send these blades to environments other than the ones they were created in. I personally think that if they could stabilize the material better before the Kamis can get their hands on it then that would be the proper solution and Aunti Yangdu would not have to move. They may be doing that already and please pardon my ignorance. Her shack itself is a good quality control measure already. They have to ship to places where the humidity could be 95% and then again they may have to walk one across the street to deliver one where the humidity may be 10%. You have to consider and determine the physical properties of horn and wood and find a happy medium where expansion and contraction of the material will be accounted for when these products are built before they are shipped. I dont know much about horn but wood I do know a little about. When wood dries it expands and contracts mostly in width and minimally in length. The problem with knife scales and partial tang handles is the shrinkage is in width and not in length. This is a known property of wood however you have to consider another situation where say for example if these knives where made in Reno (low humidity) and shipped to another extreme (the swamp). What would the consequences be? Instead of shrinkage you would have expansion. What would the effects be then? I dont have the experience to provide a perfect solution to this problem. Stabilizing the medium before the Kamis get it will work but finding a "happy medium" will be the solution to less BLEMS and more of what the company was created for in the first place. Blems are cool but if the company cant pay the bills then it all over for us and the Kamis. That aint good. Ill pay full price any day for quality a product that would otherwise not exist where I live and if I get a blem then...Whoo Hooo!
 
I too believe stabilized wood would be nice but the cost is horrendous. I make mostly pistol handles and stabilized wood is just the ticket, it doesn't crack or have issues after all the hours of making them. But I just finished a set and the cost of the wood just for one set was 48 bucks, and the piece wouldn't be nearly large enough for one khuk handle. This is why I still make them mostly out of natural woods and still consider it a hobby as I'll never get rich doing it.
I don't know much about horn either, it's so dense I doubt it would stabilize. It's like ebony, hard and dense.
I'm with you, I love the way they do things right now, I'll pay for what I gotta have and if a blem makes it a little easier for me, that's a good thing.
 
Yangdu, if you are thinking of moving to a milder climate the Russian River area of Northern California is very temperate.
 
I got first dibs on a Auntie move. I want to be her neighbor. I'll supply the truck and some strong backs. She's been in Reno a long time though, be tough to pack up and move I think.
 
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