Knife Thread !!

[Bawanna]

Here's the Barong GB mentioned above. The history is I believe Greg scored it at a flea market?? Swap meet something like that.

Sent it up to me like this for a project. I was still a knife new guy.


I looked around at some links he provided and saw they ran the gammet on handles, usually very ornate, some not so much but almost always with a hook of some sort, so I knew a hook was in order.
This is what I came up with.










It has a very ornate wood sheath for it but I can't find any pictures of it now. I'll have to take some new ones. I have a pile of laundry in the laundry room.
Todays lesson boys and girls is never ever, I mean never have a laundry room between living quarters and your man cave, especially if your in a chair. Fella with legs could climb over easy but chair, not so much.


"Greg,
Is there anything you can't do?
I have no talents at all, compared to you!
You never cease to amaze me! "


And downtown, I share this thought in my head all the time. I'm awed all the time.

[knkali]

dude, I didn't read a f'n thing you wrote. All I saw was the hot blonde in the pictures. Can you repost without the hot pic in the thread?

[knkali]

Ok what is that? OTF. I feel a little dumb right now.

Greg, I'll take some more pictures of the barong straight away. That is really a slick knife. Nice and light, just feel good.

Out The Front (auto)

[b4uqzme]

dude, I didn't read a f'n thing you wrote. All I saw was the hot blonde in the pictures. Can you repost without the hot pic in the thread?

dude......we can never have enough pictures of Bawanna's hot blonde!

[ESAFO]

dude......we can never have enough pictures of Bawanna's hot blonde!

while were waiting.....

[ScottM]

My favorite in my collection - Kershaw 1480 Nakamura with a clad VG10 blade, quince handle and 19-layer steel, copper and brass polished bolsters.

[knkali]

My favorite in my collection - Kershaw 1480 Nakamura with a clad VG10 blade, quince handle and 19-layer steel, copper and brass polished bolsters.

very nice knife. I am a convert on the VG10 steel. I used to avoid knives with that steel. I broke down and bought one and have to admit that it is now in the top 3 of steels for tactical folder/ pocket knifes 4 inches and smaller blades. Can get a little "chippy" when going for scalpel edging and a little brittle for survival knife.

[Baklash]

Some beeuuuuuutiful stuff here. Ok, I'm gonna have to show my ignorance about knives and ask the question. What is the purpose of the knives with the big curved blades?

[b4uqzme]

Scott,

that Kershaw is really good lookin'. But you know that.

[gb6491]

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Tonight I turned this into a cw380 ... gonna miss it but not after I get my gunski : )

Congrats on the CW380, but I'd be hard pressed to do that with my Sebenza...carried it for a good part of the time I was on active duty.

Regards,
Greg

[ESAFO]

What is the purpose of the knives with the big curved blades?

cutting watermellon

[gb6491]

What is the purpose of the knives with the big curved blades?

cutting watermellon

Among other things: http://archives.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=27100

[Bawanna]

I do love Khukri's another addiction that Greg started off for me. If you look back on page one and compare to this photo you'll see the sliding wall is getting pretty well maxed out. Some room up top I can't reach, might have to have wife or son hang a few up there.
The third one from the top is the one Greg sent me long ago that lit off my addiction. It's been a lot of fun and learned a ton.
And they make real fine choppers too at times.

Top half

Bottom half


My wife cringes everytime she sees a triangle box come through the door. I've saved all those too, might make me a chandelier out in the garage out of them. The lucky part for me is half or probably more of them were gifts or trades for work, that sort of stuff.

I've been very lucky when it comes to khuks.

[ripley16]

My first knife, a Puma Hunter's Pal that I purchased about 45 years ago for use as a general camping knife. This is a new one, photo from ebay. Mine is used and not so pretty.


My favorite Automatic, a Boker Speed Lock. Robust and ready for work.


From my gang member days. I was a JET, (snap fingers).

[berettabone]

As you can see, not much of a knife guy............................Spyderco I've been using for fishing, for about 30 years..........cuts through damn near everything, for a cheap knife, it's very good. My mini buck, which is in my pocket always, and my Imperial that I bought at a rummage for $5............I think it was made during the war, because of the thinness of the blade...........brand new, never used. Couldn't pass it up for $5.