Received a YCS and a beauty it is.

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RayC

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Hello all.
If you have not placed an order for a YCS save your pennys and do it.
This is a very impressive looking "K".Made from 3/8s stock the hollowing in the blade is distinct,the fit and finish is perfect.The inlays in the handle are beautiful and match the two kardas perfectly.I am very picky when it comes to the handle that is where I come in contact with the knife and if it is not right then control of the blade will suffer and make chopping a chore instead of a pleasure.This handle,is the correct thickness and gives the blade,a lighter,quicker feel,to make,stopping or changing the direction of the cut in mid swing with out strain to elbow,forearm,fingers or wrist.The tools are the most functional I have ever see with any khukuri.The tools handles are just flat out well disgned,they fit in the palm just right which lends to grearter dexterity for fine work.The scabbard is traditional but houses the"K"and its complement of tools with no problems.All and all this rig gets high marks,if you get one you will see(feel) what I mean.
I have another on order it is the plain model and I am sure the only difference will be that there is no inlay or fancy tools.


Bill I have to ask will the Kami just make a set of tools plain and seperate from a knife.If so place them on order,I think I'll ask Terry Sisco to come up with a rig for them.


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Ray
 
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Thanks for the confirmation Ray!!!
I was hopeing that others could feel the same things I did with the YCS.
A lot of thought went into the little tools to make them both comfortble to use and effective as well.
I am anxiously awaiting field reports from the guys who get the plain model like yourself and find out if it chops as well for the rest of you as it does for me.
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I doubt if many of the fancy rigs get used by anyone except myself.
I may have to get a plain one as well so I will have one I can really beat up.

A question though.... Did the sarkis make yours where the awl is in one of the front pouches instead of being behind the 2 kardas?
That will be a big improvement I think although on Terry's Website he made one scabbard where the karda and chakma handles stick out from both sides of the scabbard. That way does make them easier to draw.



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Yvsa,the awl is behined the two Kardas,that does give more gerth to the upper part of the scabbard but still that is not a problem.When I get the plain,I will chop up everything,Ican and let you know how it does.I'm sure it will feel like this one.When I get the plain set of tools Iam sure that Terry can come up with a scabbard that can hold tools while giving the whole thing a slimmer profile.
Terry has already replaced my worn out WWII scabbard with one that looks great and holds that WWII nice and snug while keeping the draw smooth and easy.Terry,right now,does great work and the best part is,that he is going to get even better at this than he is now.
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Bill;I'll be sending that email right away.
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Ray
 
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Ray yours is set up like mine is then.
And with both kardas in the scabbard the same direction I found that the edge of one hit the back of the other one, dulling it.
The solution for me was to put the long karda edge out on the concave side of the scabbard and the short karda edge out to the convex side.
That way both handles stick out from the scabbard making them both easier to remove while protecting their edges as they are now spine to
spine.
When ever I get a new khukuri I always change the karda to the concave side, edge out, so it won't hit the chakma if it isn't that way already.
Sometimes I just want to whittle myself a toothpick and I hate doing that with a dull edge.
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Hey Uncle Bill or anyone who knows,

I'm having trouble tracking down the original pics of the YCS. Can anyone direct me to them(or post a link if you would be so kind?)
Thanks in advance!
Rob
 
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That's a good pic, but it just doesn't do the knife justice.
It is much more "pointy" than what the pic shows. It must have been the way Uncle Bill was standing when he took it?
What's really "nice" is to look at that pic and compare it to the
Real Thing.
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Here was my try at capturing her:

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Not bad Roger.
Is your YCS more "pointy" than it shows in the pic as well?

I wish I had a digital camera to play with and the means to post pix, but the only way a WebTV can do that is with a regular video camera I'm told.
I ain't much of a photographer either, must be a Cherokee thing. The stories about NDNs and cameras are true you know. I hate having my pic taken.
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That's pretty much what it looks like to me..

Maybe ours aren't as pointy as your is Yvsa.

I sure like it. Everybody that that has seen it asks me if it's from some old civilization or something. I tell them yes, but it's brand new
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Designed by a Cherokee and handmade by a Nepalese craftsman. It is steeped in culture.

I think sometime in the future I will order another one to use, but I just can't bring myself to scratch this one up.


 
Yvsa;I turned one of my kardas around too.
In Bills YCS pic there is a shadow or something dark being reflected on the tip.

Roger;that is a clear pic of the YCS the Kami seem to be sticking to the original pattern,both pix look like a carbon copy of mine.I feel the same about chopping with the fulldress YCS so I ordered a plain.

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Ray
 
I haven't ordered one -- partly because I see this as being Yvsa's special knife (though that may change
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) and partly because I, too, feel I might have a problem messing up something so pretty. I sure do enjoy Yvsa's posts about using his, though. I know it would be stupid (at least for me) not to use something special like that just because it's pretty and I really get a thrill out of the way Yvsa has designed and collaborated on his own special knife that he gets to use like this. If any knife has a spirit, this one does.


Paul


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Paul Neubauer
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Paul;your right the spirit is there as in all.Ask Bill for a Plain it won't have inlay but will still look good and be fierce.Like WWII or Gelbu Special.

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Ray
 
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Paul thank you for your kind words.
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And yes the YCS does have a spirit and I feel that Sanu was able to put both, our spirit's as well as the spirit's of both of our culture's ancestor's into the essence of the YCS.
It would not have those feeling's if both Sanu and myself were not able to share this khukuri with our family and friends.

I would rather have people everywhere feel that this khukuri is "Special", not just because "I" designed it and created the model that Sanu brought into reality, but because I was able to create not only my dream, but also the dream from the input of all the family and friends that frequent this place in cyber space.
The YCS would not be the khukuri it is without all of those suggestion's and desire's of everyone who shared what they would like to see and wanted in a full curving khukuri rig.
The khukuri by itself is a very good knife, but I feel the little tools especially designed for the YCS is what makes it complete.

And since the YCS wouldn't be the khukuri it is without all the input of family and friends it belongs to all of us, and not just "my" special knife, but Our Special knife.
Hopefully it won't be the last one since I also want to do a Tin Chiarra and the HI Tomahawk.

"My" claim to fame will be the credit Uncle Bill gives his brother Cherokee by making it a part of the line of the other HI khukuri's. And besides I also get the pleasure of being able to put these tools to work.
The YCS and any future designs that may come from the heart of Indin Land belongs to all of us and therein lays my pleasure and treasure.
It just wouldn't be the same if they couldn't be shared.
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>>>>---¥vsa---->®

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

---- Samuel Butler.

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