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Australian shower..
I laughed. (a lot)
Thanks.

Mrs. Fish has been sewing masks from scraps left over from her work. Some of them are pretty wild.
ARVN Tiger Stripe reduced to 1/6.
I'm still looking for an open bank to rob.

As Doug would say:
It will keel.

Yours looks to be Filipino in origin maybe $50-60.00 range. The Benchmade is well over a $100.00 last time I looked.
They can hurt you pretty good if you make a mistake while flipping them.

I'd guess the blade is from the approximate era as the one kwackster started this thread with. The hilt may be somewhat older and once was entirely covered in silver which probably means that it once belonged to a high caste individual. The downward curved blade was popular with Sikhs I've been told...

Indian swords are a fascinating subject; Elgood's Hindu Arms and Ritual is a great book on the subject. I believe the only time you will find wootz in a specific pattern is when it has been mechanically manipulated, such as a rose or ladder pattern. Here is a quite unusual Indian sword I collected s...

Fellow MA-hole here; I just go for a drive, walk the dogs at the park, go to the beach for a walk.
I miss seeing my friends, Lunch at the bar and Fri. nights out; definitely feeling a bit creeped out at this point though.

Interesting; it doesn't look like piled construction or monosteel. I guess you'd find out for sure if you polish the entire blade. I see talwar/tulwar handles listed on ebay; the problem is that Western hands tend to be a bit larger and the disc is there to force the wielder to use a draw cut; these...

Usually the yelman is not sharpened on these swords. If the file is skittering on the edge it must be nicely hardened. You might be able to apply a bit of hot vinegar to the fresh edge; it may show you a hint of pattern. It looks like it will be a good cutter once you get used to the hilt.

Looks like an 18th century North Indian Kilij style of blade with a typical Talwar handle that has been with this blade for a long time. To find out if it's wootz you will need to polish a small window somewhere on the blade and then etch the area. Nital, ferric chloride, instant coffee paste, vineg...

I wish to specify that this ivory is a mammoth fossil ivory. This type of ivory is not illegal It's a beautiful knife but it would still probably need a CITES certificate establishing the fact that it is indeed mammoth fossil ivory and signed by recognized experts in this field of study to enter th...

Reporting in..
One of Walt's.

Yes, her little Italian .25 friend.
High heels don't work well in sand.

Nantucket hospital is overwhelmed (only 11 beds), the super rich have been arriving for days in their private jets. Of course they bring the virus with them. Same thing is happening on Cape Cod; all the second homes are full of people from 'away' ; the resentment from year round residents here is pa...

It's like throwing a drowning man an anchor. Living in an area whose lifeblood is tourism, I think a lot of tourist oriented businesses are going to be devastated by this. Bars, restaurants, theaters etc. will be running on empty, this combined with the overwhelming population of White Pointers, no ...