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Ivan Campos

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Through a trade with fellow fellow forumite, I just received a box with three khukuris at once! On GH, one wood handled Kumar 20" Kobra (wich is the fastest khukuri I ever handled,a nd I needed a whole 10 seconds to get to this conclusion) and one wood handled YCS (though it looks so much like the Ganga Ram?!).
I have just opened the box and am looking at each one and really am unable to get back to the Concealex sheaths I was working on! At least everybody knows whats the reason for some strangely twisted sheaths in my table at the Blade Show!
More on this later. Let me play with them a little.
Even though most of it is on the mail, my khukuri collection is evolving so quickly it is getting hard to count them.

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Ivan Campos
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Ivan,

Sounds like you may be pretty close to having a dozen khukuri and would definitely qualify you for HIKV elite status (Jim Clifton may disagree...
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Harry
 
It is too late, Harry:

at home

HI Kobra
HI YCS
HI kagas Katne
GH Cheetlang

In transit

HI Malla
HI 21" Sirupati
HI 12" Sirupati
GH Mini Jungle
GH High Neck
GH WWII
Original WWII military
Bone handled Villager
Small bone handled villager
18th Century with steel fittings

To be delivered

HI WWII

and a couple other trades being worked out.

And considering that I ordered my first one from HI on 04/06 (I sold this first one, a 12" Sirupati, though, as I got the same model on a trade, later) it is easy to see how the HKIV virus is taking over.
Now I have promised myself that I would not spend more money on khukuris until I come back from the Blade Show. If I do well there, though... you better get a Salyan ready, Uncle Bill!

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Ivan Campos
Full-time knifemaker...finally!


http://www.bitweb.com.br/users/campos

Visit Cutelaria Hoje - The first Brazilian virtual knife magazine
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Dear Ivan,
Your list is the stuff dreams are made of. So much steel.....I need a better job and quickly.

Best wishes, Jeff
 
Hello, Jeff

I also think I need a better job. This thing of making and selling knives, promoting knife shows and writing a bunch or articles each month for the virtual knife magazine leaves me with just not enough money or time for my knife colelction!
And now I have to stand people calling me the one-man band of the knife business!

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Ivan Campos
Full-time knifemaker...finally!


http://www.bitweb.com.br/users/campos

Visit Cutelaria Hoje - The first Brazilian virtual knife magazine
(English/Portuguese)
http://www.cutelariahoje.com.br
 
Ivan,
You are missing out on a couple of great K's, wait until you get a 16.5"WW2 by Durba,or a AK by Durba, or a 18"WW2 by the Kami with no name! You think the 20"is fast!!
I also have a 16.5" by Bura that i would put up against the 20"!Durba makes K's you wouldn't believe! I think I have one of everything he has made & I can buy others,I just never recieved anything "Not' first rate from him!!
jim
 
Ivan, when you say "18th Century with steel fittings", do you mean that the scabbard has the steel fittings, or the khuk?

Bob

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