Santosh Bilton

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greenwoods

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Just got off the phone with my mother, the happy owner of a Bilton by Santosh, as a christmas gift.

She loves it and this from a woman that gets knives as gifts from us for a good many years. She has used it to cut vinyl flooring, the thick kind-looks like tile, for her kitchen. Chopped ice from her freezer, fixed the door on her cat door( some sort of prying at the hinges), shaved some of her holiday tree to fit into a new,bigger tree stand that holds more water,our family keep our trees up as long as possible to keep the spirit going-kinda like a Hobbit has a second breakfast-we have a second holiday the middle of Jan for friends and deployed family that can't get home very fast. Opened canned milk for coffee and cut some whole chickens up for use in a paella,( a big one for 12 people in a 28" inch paella pan ), along with green peppers, sweet onions, parsnips...etc.

I've been bragging about the multiple uses we've put our khuks through, so she is testing her ,"small one",(her words). She also mentioned she'd ,most likely need a bigger one like the ones we have for spring cleaning-brush-vine and hedge altering.

have a good one
mark:thumbup:
 
Wow that little bilton is seeing some serious use! Good for your mom:)!:thumbup:
 
Jake,
I told her not to worry about the finish, as it would patina with use and that I'd sharpened it so let's see how long the edge held. She's a serious tester. She retired from Ford in Tool and Die skilled trades and has turned many of my mad designs into knives and other things with crazy steel, like r-2000, and used the heat treating at work. She raised us for a long while in the Pecos mountains in NM and is no sweet old gramma...lol. er...yes, of course she is a sweet ol gramma(my daughters made me correct myself).

mark
 
Glad she likes it, GW.

I'm using a Bilton I got a long time ago as an accessory knife (karda) in a larger rig. It's apparently through-hardened, so much so I could *not* get the thing sharp with stones/paper.

I may have used files or (ahem) a carbide sharpener on it, finally. But it's hard, unlike some kardas.

They're not choppers but are useful knifes, and a there's a little bit of Nepal in each one.


Mike
 
Mike,
Your right on there, this Bilton was really hard. I ended up using my crock sticks as the blade was just teasing the sanding block.

Salamander,
Thanks for saying so, mom is one of a kind. One tough cookie.
 
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