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Pappy

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The relief mail carrier brought a triangle box today. She has delivered some of my other toys. She waited for me to open the box before going on with the route.

Two cuts from the twelve inch AK and the box was open. the other cuts on wrap were much more careful. I had a hard time trusting my eyes on this one. The polish on this one was slick enough that the oil that is on it right now beads on the surface like water on car paint. The polish is good enough to shave in.
I don't know how heavy it is but this 21" Gelbu by Kumar is a real hummer. 14.75" blade 7/16" at the spine and just over 1 7/8" Wide at the sweet spot.
I am glad that I have long fingers. The grip is pretty big around but fits my hands very nicely.
I can see why Pala likes the Gelbu. Without the fuller that this one has I have no idea how much it would weigh but it would be heavy. You can hold this one up to the light and see the convex edge on it. The horn handle is also polished like most Kumar knives, just brilliant. I'll take it for a walk tomorrow and see how it works for the things I have for it to do. Kind of hate to scar it up the way it looks right now. I know this will be another snake getter
 
An 18" gelbu was my second khuk after a 15" AK.
I was barefoot when it came in the mail, and as soon as I pulled it out of the scabbard, I put some shoes on quick. It screamed "I mean business". I've gotten a more used to it by now, after sharpening it and all. It's the usual next to the bed khuk. I think with the narrow width and the wide deep fuller, the kamis almost can't help but put a convex edge on this model.

Interested to see what you think of yours. To me, the sweet spot is pretty small for work. It seems a quick fighter. I wonder if the grip on yours is Kumar style-- the one on mine is one of the longest and thinnest of my khuks, but seems to match anyway. Kesar made it.
 
hmmm

kumar seems to make bigger grips than other kami... my blade by kumar is wider grip too

i guess people with big hands should get one by kumar then i suppose :)
 
"I know this will be another snake getter"

:D :) :D

Pappy, I've always understood rodent eating reptiles, i.e. snakes, to be beneficial critters. But when the poisonous variety get too populous in areas close to people's homes, well, they just gotta be "culled" a bit. Used to help a buddy down in north Florida thin out the snakes on his dad's property. Our equipment consisted of a can of gas, a hose, a sawed off twenty guage, and a very remarkable dog named Bud, who could sniff down the holes dug by gopher turtles and let you know if a snake was in residence.

Bud would bark and growl his fierce hatred of things scaly, and we'd stick the hose down the hole and pour a little gas down it. Lickety split one pretty ticked off rattler would come charging out of the hole. 'Course that brought him right in the field of fire of that sawed off twenty guage, which was little less than a hand held claymore mine. Bad luck for mister rattler, but I swear old Bud loved the roar of that shotgun.:D

Sarge
 
We'd thin the cottonmouth poplulation around our place in PA as kids with little more than a Crossman Powerline. Wed've loved a sawn off 20ga. tho!

Keith
 
I don't have nothing but two 12 Ga. pumps and a sawed off double gun. I'm trying to take it easy on the ones that I know are not poisonous. I'm hopping they will help me with the gopher and mole popualtion. The last one I killed gave me reason to be concerned. It isn't normal for any non poisonous snake to attack two big dogs. The lightest one being about 60 lb. He wanted to fight and lost. The biggest mistake the snake made was getting his head over a foot off the ground with a 20" Siru in close proximity.:D :D
 
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