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Ferrous Wheel

Ferrous Wheel

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in a thread called "kukri (just for the heck of it)"

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No cho, or SoS, but definitely a khuk like form...

The coool thing about this piece is the method the maker used to dye the leather black...involves dissolving steel wool in vinegar....cool!

Keith
 
Steel wool + vinegar = iron acetate.

If you add ammonia, it makes blue-green slime. Don't know why it makes the leather black. Maybe some sort of reaction with chrome from the tanning chemicals?

Interesting shape. Wonder how it swings.
 
Originally posted by Sylvrfalcn
Nice one, looks very tactical and "businesslike".:D

Sarge
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Sarge that looks like my Cold Steel LTC and it is very tactical and business like.
Mine doesn't have a leather sheath though.
It has the cordura covered material whatever it is. I like the little khuk shaped knife!!!!
It has served me well!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
 
The LTC looked to me like it had more belly than this one has. Looks more like the light version of the standard CS Khuk. It is hard to tell from the catalog pictures.
This one doesn't look very thick to me or is it my eyeballs.:)
 
Originally posted by Tohatchi NM
Steel wool + vinegar = iron acetate.

If you add ammonia, it makes blue-green slime. Don't know why it makes the leather black. Maybe some sort of reaction with chrome from the tanning chemicals?

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Tohatchi:

Iron was also traditionally used to darken dye colors back before the days of synthetic dye stuffs (usually as a mordant). It was particularly used in dying fibers black or dark brown. It weakened the fibers, though, causing them to deteriorate over time.

Nails + vinegar (or urine) appear as a browning/bluing recipe in one of the old gunsmithing books that I have.

S.
 
I had the feeling you were gonna say that Uncle :D

Nothing goes to waste in Nepal....

I read in "Eaters of the Dead" that the Vikings used cattle urine as an antiseptic for the ammonia content.

Andrew Lim

Originally posted by Bill Martino
Kamis like the urine method.
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Originally posted by Pappy
This one doesn't look very thick to me or is it my eyeballs.:)
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Pappy, mine is 1/8" thick and consequently I call it my bent machete rather than a khuk.
However the knife's name is "Biter" as almost every time I've used it the dayumed thing has bit me!!!!:rolleyes:
The khuk like shape alone is very effective in generateing power and I have no doubt of the Biter's ability to take off the head of any bad guy.

Gotta go check the belly out, now that you said something about it I think I do perceive a difference.:confused:

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Pappy, you're right, the LTC does have a bit more belly, but I think it may be due to it having a more wasp waisted waist. (Say that real fast 6 times!!!!:D)
I got my LTC when they 1st came out I think it was. I know there's some confusion over the CS Knive's that had the LTC designation!!!!
I've been out and out called a liar because a couple of other fellows said that there was no way I could have a LTC that was that thin as CS Didn't make them right off the bat.
I don't know and it doesn't bother me as I know what it is. Trying to remember now as to even a close time frame I got it in wouldn't be worth arguing over as that part of my memory is $hot to $hit anyway and I'm really not interested enough to look in my past records, providing I even kept them!!!!:footinmou :rolleyes:

I've got all my old knife receipts!!!! :D
 
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