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		<title>Tori Tanto Review.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tori Tanto is a Chinese made replica of a Japanese tanto knife. Mine arrived today, and I have to say, I am impressed. It is one of the first 50 that were made with T10 steel instead of the Swedish powdered steel Hanwei uses. They were recalled, but this one got away.]]></description>
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		<title>The EDC Folding Knife, and Emerson Commander.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My best advise to you is, carry a knife. Buy a good one. Hopefully you'd never need to defend or save your life with it, but if need be, it should be there for you.]]></description>
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		<title>First Lessons Learned in Forging Knives.</title>
		<link>http://keskydee.com/wordpress/archives/577</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Useful information about forging knives, for beginners like me.]]></description>
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		<title>Cheness Kaze Ko Katana Sword Review.</title>
		<link>http://keskydee.com/wordpress/archives/549</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPS finally dropped my much anticipated Kaze Ko-Katana outside of my house last night (they didn&#8217;t bother to knock on the door, as usual). You might want to read the introduction to this full review here.. I am not a sword afficcionado, but I do know quite a bit about knives. This is my first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheness Kaze Ko Katana Sword Review, Introduction.</title>
		<link>http://keskydee.com/wordpress/archives/531</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of consideration and research on the web, I finally decided to buy a katana. Not a cheap wall-hanger, but a practical sword, forged by hand and differentially hardened.]]></description>
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		<title>Swords as a Home Self Defense Option.</title>
		<link>http://keskydee.com/wordpress/archives/501</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An often overlooked home self defense option is the sword. They work as well today as they did centuries ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Parkerizing a Khukuri Knife.</title>
		<link>http://keskydee.com/wordpress/archives/386</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted a rust-proof finish on my khukuri. The cheapest and easiest solution I came up with is parkerizing. Wikipedia: &#8220;Parkerizing (also called phosphating and phosphatizing) is a method of protecting a steel surface from corrosion and increasing its resistance to wear through the application of an electrochemical phosphate conversion coating.&#8221; This process is used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khukuri House Raw Panawal Kukri Review.</title>
		<link>http://keskydee.com/wordpress/archives/226</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had noticed those odd-shaped knives before, but really got interested in purchasing one after reading the excellent James Clavell book, &#8220;Whirlwind&#8221; where, among a flurry of characters, a few British Gurkhas roam Iran on a covert operation during the 1979 revolution. They are armed of course with Nepal&#8217;s &#8220;official&#8221; knife, the Kukri, or Khukuri. [...]]]></description>
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