YCS damaged in shipment. Pix. Save a hundred bucks.

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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This was a 10/10 rig made by Sanu when it left Nepal. By the time it got to Reno it had taken a heavy hit (or several!) somewhere along the way which resulted in the following damage.

Scabbard tip damaged as shown.

Scabbard mouth torn as shown.

Buttcap dinged and handle chipped as shown.

Awl tip broken off.

The blades, thankfully, the shippers could not damage and they are perfect and all very well done.

The easy fix is to send the scabbard to Terry Sisco for rework and mix some wood dust and epoxy and fill the chipped area on the handle. The silver buttcap is soft (probably one of the reasons for the damage to chape and buttcap) and can be put back into original shape very easily. So, it's a 20 minute effort and 20 cents worth of epoxy to fix the handle. If you want to tackle the scabbard repair yourself, remove the chape and straighten it out -- it's silver and pretty soft. Get a strip of leather and epoxy it over the torn area. I'm not sure what Terry will charge to repair the scabbard but I doubt if it is more than fifty dollars so you'll end up with a considerable savings and a great rig no matter which way you go.

We will deliver this rig to your door for $145, a $100 savings.

Call or email if interested.

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Uncle Bill
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Back in the old days when some bad boy who was wanted by the law in the more civilized parts of the country absconded south of the Red River, they would just write "GTT' by his name.
This YCS is one bad boy that's GTT and found a good home!
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One of these days I'll have to tell you about Wyatt's days in Tonopah and Goldfield, Berk. Some things still hadn't changed in my time.

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"Ah, for the good old days, when the DA and Sheriff would quake in their boots at the mention of the last four digits of the State AG's home phone number."
 
Uh, Uncle Bill, one question.

Your below the line signatures says Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

When it comes to the blessings directed toward UPS, can I ask which way you are directing those blessings or should I just drop the subject?
 
Speaking of dropping the subject - the YCS that got drop-kicked from Nepal to Nevada made it to Texas without further adventure. The faint of heart need not read on - I decided that the condition it arrived in was the condition it wanted to be in, and am doing as its designer suggests, using it as a pretty work knife. A few practice swings convinced me that the buttcap would bite me if restored to its original configuration, so I used the small karda to trim the top of the handle even and peened the soft silver over onto it. I had already decided that the mashed tip of the chape was a comfort and safety improvement over the original pointy design, so just peened that a bit to make it more symmetrical, Then spent as long as a fat man can in the Texas near-summer heat chopping on the hardest biggest piece of seasoned standing wood I could find. This really is it, just like Yvsa says - a perfect kit of tools, designed and made to exacting standards, prettied up enough to make a man proud but not enough to interfere with doing the job of work it was intended for. Maybe if I'd paid the extra tariff for a "perfect" one I wouldn't have had the cojones to beat on it and use it the way it was intended to be used. If so, then this was definitely the "perfect" YCS for me, 'cause I intend to beat it like a borrowed mule, and don't expect anything but great performance in return. Thanks, Yvsa, Sanu, & Uncle Bill
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