I posted this on an edged weapon website recently, but I'm hoping y'all will appreciate it.
It was taken in 1915 at Gallipoli....Never doubt a Gurkha's toughness !!
This is the newspaper's caption....My comments in brackets !!
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I posted this on an edged weapon website recently, but I'm hoping y'all will appreciate it.
It was taken in 1915 at Gallipoli....Never doubt a Gurkha's toughness !!
This is the newspaper's caption....My comments in brackets !!
I was crazy enough to strop on my hand to granted I went really slow as I have seen a video were master livi stropped on his hand and he is pretty quick
Oh, dude, that is, like, so totally hard-core old school!!! :rock:
And, as Tyler referenced, here's mastro Livi at work on his palm.
Howard:)
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SirStropalot --
That gentleman must have the supreme confidence of very thick callouses! I have a feeling that if I tried it, you'd be calling me "Lefty!"
Yeah, you'd be calling me an ambulance!!
Are we sure he isn't using a barbers hone? I'm not trying to discount that chap's manliness, but I just want to cover all the bases before I go accepting what's in front of me. ;)
You're an ambulance!Quote:
Originally Posted by SirStropalot
Ba-Dum-Bum!
Thank you! Thank you! I'll be here all week! Be sure to tip your waitresses and beertenders!
Nothing special about it, it works fine.
I usually strop on my hand in between different stones to get the false edge of, you can sometimes feel it coming off in you palm.
You can even use the palm as a pasted stop if you put some slurry on it.
In Iwasakis paper on honing he suggest stropping on your palm too.
That's nothing. Where I come from they strop using their tongue.