Who Are You?

Like Bill, I've been around a long time, so my detailed c.v. would make for a tedious story. For about 60 years, I have been associated with guns, knives, and archery of the traditional stick and string kind. Why? Lucky to have the right early influences, I guess. I have no use for organized politics or religion or any '-ism' that thinks it knows what's good and right and true for me better than I do. I've been among other things a student, laborer, soldier, researcher, gunsmith, salesman, writer, father (three sucessful adult human beings) and husband (soon celebrating our 50th year together and 42nd wedding anniversary.) Now retired, I have all the time in the world to pursue trivial interests. I have so many knives I can't count them, but only two khuks. I enjoy this Forum, and check it out daily. As others have mentioned, the atmosphere here is considerably more comfortable than most of the other gun and knife forums. I credit Bill and Rusty for this, as well as the other Forumites.
Ken



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The sword cannot cut itself, the eye cannot see itself.
 
I don't honestly _know_ who the hell I am.

Just trying to be a man, mostly...

-Dave

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"MacDonald will ne'er from his promise depart, for love, truth, and honor is aye in his heart..."
 
Ooo Ooo my turn my turn
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I'm a 25 year old lunatic who because of lack of ANY sort of planning and a general afinity for anything military, joined the Navy after high school. Actually passed Basic and went on to Groton, Conn for Sub school (I became a bubblehead) then down to Kings Bay, Ga for my boat duty aboard a monstrous Trident missile-toting nukleeare susmarine. Started off with no rate at all and busted my rear to strike for and get Quartermaster (thats in Navigation for those of other service background
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) After being unable to cope with the ridiculous need to be able to run a mile and a half while assigned to a ship only 560 feet long and underwater, I was prematurely discharged (honorably) after 3 years. Now I ply my trade of lunacy and strangeness in the local Publix Supermarket ("Where shopping is a pleasure, and working is nonexistent") I've been studying all sorts of military history since I was in the 3rd grade and haven't stopped since. I have read many books of different topics ranging from science fiction to ancient history to autobiographies and classic literature (I own all of the original James Bond paperback novels). Music for me is even more varied from bagpipes to country to modern rock to japanese flutes and drums. I'm not a great conversationalist in person but while online or somewhere that I don't have to look a person in the face or hear their voice...I'm a prime example of a lunatic who won't stop talking, as this post is proving right now. On that note...it's time for the messages from the mothership so I must sign off now and receive my instructions while in my comfy "I love me" jacket.

Thanks for actually trying to figure out what I just said.
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Alhamdu-li-(A)llaah!
MOHD ...
  • Human being,
  • Male,
  • Muslim,
  • Tabligh,
  • Malysian Citizen,
  • Javanese descendant,
  • Short & skinny,
  • Brown coloured skin,
  • Black eyes,
  • Bearded,
  • Gray hair,
  • With "topi" on his head,
  • You might mistaken him for bespectacled Uthamah Bin Ladin!
  • Married but still available for another 3 more ladies!
  • Have 3 sons from 1st wife!
  • SA in a banking org,
  • Apartment,
  • Old car,
  • Thin wallet,
  • Reading,
  • Collector ... books ... fragrances ... vests ... walking sticks ... Khukuris,
  • No combat experience!
  • No fighting experience!
  • No killing experience!
  • Healthy,
  • Sick,
  • Happy,
  • Sad,
  • Loughing,
  • Smile,
  • Cry,
  • Eat,
  • Sleep,
  • Dream,
  • I don't know for how long ... but ... he is still around now!
  • What else you want to know about him?
  • Don't be surprise ... CIA might know him more!
  • ...
I guess ... MOHD is just MOHD!

NEPAL HO!
 
What an assortment of interesting lives on this forum. I agree with Gunhou that this forum is by far the most "gentlemanly" of the ones I have visited. It is a pleasure to read.

My own vital stats are as follows: I am 33 years old, husband of 8 years to the mother of my 3 children, who are 5 years, 3 years, and 6 months old. I grew up in Spain (living there for 14 years--so I speak Spanish fluently) but now reside in a small town in South Carolina, where I am restoring a large old house. I was a classical music piano performance major in college, and my favorite composer is JS Bach. I can still play about an hour's worth of his music from memory. Since then I have worked as a chef (I still love to cook--especially the part about working with sharp knives) and now work in telecommunications as a database analyst.

I have loved blades since I was small, and have wanted a khukri since a man we were visiting showed me one when I was about 13. Glad I waited until I found HI to buy one (or two). I listen mostly to classical choral music and acoustic, small-combo jazz. I am a voracious reader (good phrase, John P), especially history, theology and historical novels.

I've enjoyed chatting with you all.

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T. Sisco asked what kind of bows I have: A Martin Hunter recurve at 50 pound draw , a Saxon American recurve at 50lb. also , and a Kassai Magyar horsebow at 51lb. draw. I like 50 pound draw weight. It offers me optimum performance for my size. I make my own arrows (and lose my own arrows in the pinyon/juniper flats here!) A 142 pound bow..wow!

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Kevan "Raven" Taylor-Perry
 
Well for myself:
I am a 22 year-old student at UC Berkeley. My major is classical Japanese literature, with a speciality in medieval Japanese drama, and I am currently writing a thesis that is SO profound that it will have no forseeable impact on the world whatsoever
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Besides that, it may surprise you to find out that I am actually 100% German, not Japanese. I was born there and lived there until I was 12, at which time I moved to Baton Rouge, LA. So I was actually Steven F.'s neighbor for many years.

My name really is Tatsuo, whcich is due to the fact that both my parents have lived and worked in Japan (I was almost born in Tokyo.) I like all kinds of edged things, including saws, chisels, and other tools.

Under duress, I started MA when I was 12, and quit when I was 20, with my right wrist completely out of action due to tendonitis. It has since recovered, but I don't trust myself with heavy swords anymore, which is why I have a preference to thin, light blades.

Thats about it, I guess

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Tatsuo
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"He who laughs at himself laughs best" :D
 
I just turned 24, am working as a software consultant (read "geek"), and have been collecting knives for about 11 years. My addiction has intensified in the past year or so, since I found bladeforums (and finally have more than a couple of bucks to my name at any given time).

I spent most of my life desperately wanting to leave Honolulu, HI, where I was born and raised. Moved to WA for University at 17, permanently at 21. Marriage is about as appealing to me as a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. As far as religions go, I am strongly in favor of the "pick one you like, don't get nasty to me about it" school of thought.

Things I like, in no particular order:
Books (try to read a couple a week if I'm not too busy), dogs (we had 5 growing up), figure drawing, music (all kinds, and I mean all), guitars (acoustic 6-string and electric bass), curry, fishing, karaoke, motorcycles, trumpets, fire, fencing (sabre), contact juggling, britcoms, martial arts (though I've been lazy about it lately), cartoons, professional wrestling, satire, cats, snowboarding, power tools, intelligent debate, theatre, computers, stuffed animals, anime, logic, clubbing, nintendo.
I also quite like alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. Oh, and sharp shiny objects of all sorts.
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Some stuff I don't like:
Willful ignorance, injustice, mayflies, cooked carrots.

That's all I can think of right now!

Mei-chan Novadak
 
this is fun. Sort of like leafing thru People magazine in the supermarket checkout line.
As for me, I'm 50. At this stage of life my time is pretty well occupied in 3 broad spheres: work, family, exercise. Sounds pretty limiting, I know, to you 20-year-olds; all I can say is it works for me.
I am somewhat of a dinosaur in work terms. I've worked for the same company for 23 years. I can't think of anybody I know who can say the same. I'm a print journalist. I write about medicine for an audience of doctors.I spend maybe one-quarter of my time out of town at medical conferences or doing interviews, which suits me fine because I like to travel and eat out. In fact, I just got back from 3 nights in Manhattan last night. And Bill, you'll be happy to hear that spending $275 of OPM per night for a hotel room that isn't even that nice puts me in the frame of mind that a khukuri you can hold in your hand, use, and pass on is really a pretty good bargain in comparison. So I'll be buying from HI again soon. I work out of my house, and have for maybe the last 15 years.
I've been married just once, for the last 16 years. These have been the best years of my life. We have a 13-year-old and an 8-year-old. Also a couple dogs collectively weighing about 150 lb, a horse, a bird, fish, hermit crabs, etc.
I've always played a lot of sports. As a result of injuries, the aging process, and time constraints, I'm pretty much down to running--road racing. In fact, I'm really stoked to be doing a marathon this Sunday down in Denver, the first Mile High City Marathon. I've done 7 or 8 others since the late-1970s. About 5 months ago I decided to do one this fall, some sort of statement about turning 50 I suppose. I like to fish, and just this year I, too, have taken up archery. I have a plain recurve from Cabella's with 45-lb draw. Even that's trying to give me shoulder tendonitis, so the notion of drawing a 90-lb bow is beyond my comprehension. I think it's interesting that of all the khukuri fans who've mentioned archery, we're all shunning the compound bows with high-tech materials and pulley systems.
Well, I'm sorely tempted to launch into the story of how 3 years ago during a ferocious mountain thunderstorm I hydroplaned the station wagon and drove the entire family backwards 314 feet off a cliff at Rabbit Ears Pass, and the kids climbed out of the wreckage and back up to the road to start their parents' rescue, for which they were later honored for bravery in a ceremony by the State Highway Patrol...but enough about me.
 
Well, here goes: I have 53 years of life experiences, live in the Pacific Northwest but long to move back to my roots and the weather of Northern California. The area is beautiful with much activity to participate in but the cold and wet winter weather is difficult for me to endure. Since the divorce, my 5 kids have become my life. My outdoor diversions are golf, fishing, shooting, camping, and hiking. My indoor diversions are cigar smoking (therefore my username), working out at the gym, watching tv, reading and of course collecting shiny things that cut. The collection of fixed blade shiny things that cut is growing due to HIKV. I've participated for a time in the other blade forums but one faithful day, I got curious about the HI forum. The rest is history. I just hope there is a rest home for those of us who are incurable.
 
Tatsuo, how long were you in Baton Rouge, when did you leave, and where in B.R. did you live? I also have to ask, what in the world prompted your family to move to the third-world state of Louisiana?
 
Seegarman, that's an idea! A rest home for us old khuk knuts! I had to laugh when I thought about it. Can't you just picture it -- a bunch of senile old men running around brandishing khukuris?
 
Steven, can we have young pretty nurses too? I like that image. They'd also give us a reason for all that running around.

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Steven;
I lived on Louray Drive in Kenilworth, Between Highland Road and Perkins. We originally moved there because my father tok the position of head the CAMD (that physics project over by where Barnes and Nobles is).

Actually, my sister still lives in BR; she's a junmior at the vet school, and lives down by by the University golf course, but unfortunately she's not into khukuris at all
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Oh, and I lived in LA for 8 years, until in moved to Berkeley to start college in '97

Strange, isn't it?

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Tatsuo
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"He who laughs at himself laughs best"
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My turn, I guess. I'm 53. I've been living with the same woman for 25 years, married for the last 19 of those. We have one son, almost 10, who has displayed some interest in khukuris and who will become the owner of one in the moderately near future.
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I've been a computer programmer/sysadmin for the past 11 years. Before that I lived off translation (technical), carpentry/cabinetry, and teaching (linguistics) at various times.
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I grew up in Portland OR, but then went off to college in NYC and various other places since then. I've lived in most parts of the US by now as well as 3 years in Poland (76-79, pre-Solidarity). I guess I've now lived in Indiana for almost as long as I lived in Portland. I miss the mountains and the oceans, but I'm pretty much here for the duration, so making the best of it.

I don't even know where to start on interests. Obviously sharp (and other) tools have been pretty near constant. I read all the time -- Science Fiction, science, history, etc. Hobbies have ranged widely and unpredictably, including wilderness backpacking and mountain climbing (much less common nowadays
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not much of that in or near Indiana), fencing (in college), irises, and the constants of cooking and woodworking (both of which involve knives
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Politically, I identify myself as "liberal," which is NOT synonymous with "hoplophobic." (I have to say that here.) I'm more the '60's, civil rights, equality-for-all, pro-environment type liberal, than the current stereotype of overprotective mommy. I can't say I see much to vote for in the current offerings of the major parties. After voting exclusively for Democrats, I broke with that in 1996 and gave Harry Browne my vote since I had trouble stomaching Clinton/Gore and am leaning toward Nader this go-round, especially since in Indiana, the biggest benefit I can see for my vote is to increase the credibility of parties beyond the Republocrats.

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Paul Neubauer
prn@bsu.edu
A tool is, basically, an object that enables you to take advantage of the laws of physics and mechanics in such a way that you can seriously injure yourself.

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