Sarki Shop handles and covers.

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The Sarki Shop will no longer be makeing the canvas covers due to the sewing machine kicking the bucket.

I will also no longer be makeing the wood handles, Sandi has bad allergic reactions to the hardwood dust. Since the shop is inside the house this is the only thing I can do.
I will finish up any handles I have here and that will be it.
I'm sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
God Bless.
Terry & Sandi
 
Dang. Was getting ready to order that handle, too. Can't you politely ask Sandi to walk around in a dust mask?

Very sorry that it's causing her difficulties. That stuff can be very nasty. Good thing you caught it in time.
 
I'm too new, and didn't know about this anyway. The replacement wood handles are self explanatory I guess, but what were the canvas covers for? And why the picture of the HI AK Bowie? Some of you old guys please fill the rest of us in!

regards,

Svashtar
 
Terry, I agree that Sandi's health and needs come first but I will tell you now that the forumites here have lost the services of a great craftsman with regards to the replacement wood handles. Please tell Sandi that I wish her well and hope that her exposure has not given her any lasting problems.
 
Does anybody know anyone who does besides Terry? I had ordered some nice canvas in hopes of getting some covers done and now I don't know anyone who makes them. Maybe somebody will step up.:)
 
Terry, any chance that the sewing machine can be repaired? If it's a question of spare parts, you KNOW the guys on this forum have a lot of strange sources at their disposal. Let us know.
 
For Heaven's sakes, how hard can it be to find a machine that will work? No one wants sewing machines anymore. We've all seen industrial models being blown out from time to time.

I pledge 10 bucks for Terry's new machine.



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I'll pledge $5 for each cover I have now (i.e. $15). There's gotta be some good working machines at garage sales or pawn shops. Sorry to hear about Sandi's allergies, someday I know you'll have a shop that is separate and worthy of your skills :)
 
Thanks for the generous offers guys. But let me see what I can dig up on this end for doing the sheath covers.
I will still be doing all the sheath work ,both all leather an traditional khukuri sheaths.
If I can get a seperate shop I will start the handles again.
God Bless.
Terry
 
Originally posted by Svashtar
I'm too new, and didn't know about this anyway. The replacement wood handles are self explanatory I guess, but what were the canvas covers for? And why the picture of the HI AK Bowie?
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Hi Svashtar. The canvas covers protect the leather scabbards from thorn and brush scratches when out in the field, and some military folks use cammo or desert canvas covers for the added benefit of camouflage. The AK Bowie was pictured since Terry makes scabbards for many of HI's knives... Dan :)
 
Thanks for the info Dan. The canvas coverings make sense. Are people relacing the handles because they are breaking, or for functionality? The handles on mine look as if they will last indefinitely.

Regards,

Svashtar
 
I imagine a lot of folks here have Khuks other than HIs, thus not under Uncle Bill's protective guarantee. As for HI's, some may want a different style or material grip. :D
 
T-Bone brought over the refurbished scabbard for my Foxy Folly and the two kardas I made for it earlier this evening.
I can't say enough good things about it except that is perfect and Absolutely Beautiful!!!!:D
First brown scabbard I've had and if I had the money or trade goods it wouldn't be my last!!!!
The brown fits my idea of what a khuk scabbard should be regardless of tradition.:p ;)
The two kardas are fitten into a sheath that's mounted on the frog and fit perfectly.
Hopefully in a few days I can take some pix of it and get someone to put them up for me.
I'm in process of working on the khuk's handle so as to make it fit me better.
The handle was way too round and this big of a khukuri needs the oval or egg shaped handle to keep from turning so badly in the hand.
But I will take the pix anyway and then some more later sometime when I get it finished.
I still want one of these in the 17"-18" range!!!! Preferably Without the so called habaki bolster!!!!:D
 
Originally posted by Yvsa
The two kardas are fitten into a sheath that's mounted on the frog and fit perfectly.
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When I get some more case together I want to get one of those for my Pen Knife so I could have a larger blade on the karda than the current little Pen Knife sheath will permit. Hope you can post some pix. I'd love to see them.

Got the AK addressed and will send it Fri.
 
Yvsa...

Wish I had known Terry was coming over to your place today...he had my stuff ready also and I'd have asked that he run it by you so I could see what a proper convex looks like. Maybe next time...I'm sending a 12" Villager to him next. He said he had to go with khaki for mine as well...didn't have the OD I'd asked for. As you said, probably look better this way anyway!
 
Originally posted by Nasty
He said he had to go with khaki for mine as well...didn't have the OD I'd asked for. As you said, probably look better this way anyway!
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Well hell.:( That's too bad Nasty, as you say, "maybe next time."

But I think you misunderstood my post about the brown. The scabbard leather on mine was cut due to the dumbass sarki not making the scabbard wide enough for the blade.:rolleyes: :grumpy:
Anyway I had T-Bone redo the leather on the scabbard as well as refurbishing it so that it would fit properly.
Howard Wallace had a special Sirupati scabbard made for his daughter with brown leather that I have always admired, as well as seeing an old WW II khuk with a brown leather scabbard once; I had T-Bone do mine in a nice brown leather with a special frog the same color.
It is absolutely Beautiful!!!!:D
 
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