shepp Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) ^^^ MERICA thats why Ps we're gonna be butchering a steer this spring are you avalible lol Edited February 11, 2015 by shepp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachmaster Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Haha if you were around here I would be all for it. Honestly, for a couple of dollars more, I could have purchased the "buff head" ceremonial Khukuri. It has like a 36" blade and weighs 15lbs. They have a religious ceremony where the head if the household has to chop through a cows neck in one swing, or his entire family gets bad luck for the rest of the year. Lol I imagine most of them are successful :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfalcon07 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Is that a Himalayan Imports? I've got several khuks. I'll have to get a group shot. Looking through my albums, I realized that I don't have any of my khuk collection. It's gonna have to wait til next week though, as I'm about to head out of town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Haha if you were around here I would be all for it. Honestly, for a couple of dollars more, I could have purchased the "buff head" ceremonial Khukuri. It has like a 36" blade and weighs 15lbs. They have a religious ceremony where the head if the household has to chop through a cows neck in one swing, or his entire family gets bad luck for the rest of the year. Lol I imagine most of them are successful :-D Well what made me think of that all is the scene at the end of apocalypse now in the camp were there do that, but I'm pretty sure it was a large ax of some sort. we're on the same page :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue109 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 that's the same exact scene that popped into my head lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachmaster Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Although I dont know what movie you guys are referring to... I now want to see it. It isn't Himalayan Imports, it is from Khukuri House, or more recently, Ex Ghurka Khukuri House. I like EGKH because they are bit cheaper, even though they ship from Nepal, but also because they do some other wicked designs, and they do a lot more stuff that I full tang. I am a HUGE advocate of full tang knives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue109 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) have you seriously not seen apocalypse now? greatest war movie ever made? if not, drop whatever you are doing and go buy it. preferably the redux version witch includes deleted/remade scenes. Edited February 11, 2015 by blue109 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) have you seriously not seen apocalypse now? greatest war movie ever made? if not, drop whatever you are doing and go buy it. preferably the redux version witch includes deleted/remade scenes. Idk bout the greatest but it's damn good!!! Ever hear the quote "I l be the smell of napalm in the morning"??? Yea that's from that. Marlin Brando, Martin scheen, Lawrence fishburn and a few other cameoshttp://m.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/ Edited February 11, 2015 by shepp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachmaster Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Oh I gotcha. :-) Sounds familiar, ill have to see it :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue109 Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 nothin too special, and didn't actually fill any niche I was missing, but every knife collection should have a Japan made cold steel tanto. embrace the '80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketch Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 proto type untill I get some hard steel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Damn Roman, that's a sweet pattern - that will make a wicked blade, brother! blue, I agree - my Cold steel SRK is one of my favorite knives, even if it's not a tanto. Love me some Cold Steel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachmaster Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 I have a 90s American made CS Recon tanto that a friend is reprofiling for me. My dad busted the tip when he was in the marine corps doing some counter drug op on the boarder, and since I was like 5 I asked why he never got it fixed... I asked him recently, and he said if you fix it, you can have it lol It is currently being reprofiled to be similar to a Becker Bk15/ Bk5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue109 Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 that's awesome. they were all Japan made back then correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue109 Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 (edited) quick update on recon tanto. its sharp. silly scary sharp. one handed slicing of junk mail (credit card offer envelopes) into thin strips like a sushi chef sharp. blade is gorgeous. perfectly even grinds. plastic part of sheath is nice and holds knife really tightly. handle is super grippe. bad....the nylon webbing part of sheath feels cheap, but it attaches with screws so something nicer can be made/adapted. the handle is about 1/2" short to be a comfortable work knife, but I don't think it was meant to be a work knife anyway. wasn't sure why I even bought this, but really glad I did. next project.....pimp my junglas. stay tuned. Edited February 15, 2015 by blue109 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 I'll jump in on the Cold Steel bandwagon. I love their Tanto blades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfalcon07 Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 I definitely like Cold Steel's cheaper stuff. The more expensive stuff isn't really worth it IMO, and their swords have questionable balance and are overbuilt. Good if you're a mall ninja interested in chopping down a tree, perhaps, but not so good for serious practitioners. I have a friend who's a former world champion who won't go near them. Later today, I'm going to get a group shot of most of the khukuri I have... in the meantime, here's a couple I made: Made this for a friend who recently died in a car accident. Hope it's serving his lady well. RIP, buddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Gorgeous blades, brother - that is GREAT work! <thumbsup> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Brother you have some serious talent.I look at all this cold steel and all I can do is :drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue109 Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 that bottom one is awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachmaster Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Crimson Falcon, I love your first Khuk there! Do you have a Facebook page, website, or store front? Or do you just do it as a hobby for yourself? Blue, no my old recon is made of carbon v steel in the us of a. In case anyone is wondering, carbon v is actually 1095 crovan, which is actually 170-6 sheridan. Camilus, kabar, and case all use 170-6 Sheridan under their own name. When camilus went under in 2005, food steel left America. (Camilus was sharing the steel, and possibly the factory... idk) I respect cold steels Japanese stuff, but i personally strongly dislike anything that says China, Taiwan, or Pakistan. I am bias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyEJL Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 I picked up a handmade knife today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 Very nice brother Easy. <thumbsup> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfalcon07 Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Thanks for the good words fellas. The closest thing I have to a website is my photobucket, which has photos of a lot of my work. Next project is a katana design, along with some fighters. Not sure what the etiquette is here, but I'd be happy to run a giveaway contest here for y'all, in thanks for all the help you've given me with my build, if it's cool with the staff, and send one of you a free blade. I actually don't think Cold Steel's Carbon V is actually the same as Ka-bar's 1095CV, from what Uncle E (Ethan Becker) says. I recall reading that the Kabar 1095CV is a proprietary formula. I'd like to try out one of Cold Steel's CPM 3V blades. It's my favorite hard-use steel. I like M390 a lot for smaller blades. I've got a ton of different steels, including some expensive stuff like Elmax and CPM S110V. M390 performs the best out of the super steels, and 3V is just better than anything else for tough tasks and sword steels. Thing is, I make 3V blades myself, and have the heat treat done by one of the best guys in the business (Brad Stallsmith at Peter's Heat Treat, using Dan Keffeler's formula, Dan being the only two-time Bladesports World Champion, one of the best modernized sword makers in the business, and an all-around stand-up guy). So it's pretty tough to justify buying someone else's blades. 5160 and 52100 are darn good steels too. 5160 is my favorite cheap hard-use steel, and 52100 (which is the same thing as Busse's SR101, for the most part), is a fantastic slicy steel. I find metallurgy fascinating, and have recently been giving some thought to how it could benefit firearms builds. Certainly a high temp resistance/high wear resistance third gen powder steel would make an AMAZING barrel. It would be far more consistent than is possible with a carbon steel, and would last many times longer as well. But it would also be far harder to work because of the higher wear resistance, and the raw materials cost around 3-4 times as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripledeuce Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 I didn't notice ATS 34 in your list of steel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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