sweet no matter how much you try, you are not educated enough to make your claims, you are just a customer with too much time on his hands and unfortunate friends --- so you talk up your buddy and talk down the best knife company in the world, calling the blades touristy , and non-authentic , you are being dishonest about your goals here, I think it could not be more clear. You are here specifically to market your friend's company, in so many words, directly in the House of the person who he has set himself against --how you fawn over him on his forum is a glaring example of your bias-- and no matter how much you market or lie about the products, when I go to forums that have nothing to do with Khukri's all over the internet, I only hear one thing:
Himalayan Imports has the best knife money can buy, for the price not a single company can beat it in quality or service, not one is more authentic in its native blades, not one makes more over built "monsters" for westerners. Despite your desires, Himalayan imports will thrive and outlast your english friend, long after he is nothing more than a joke (which he is now)
I have never, even once heard of the other guys(till i went looking for the people who claim HI has substandard product and found them and laughed) , I have even heard of all the others, but this english guy trying to act like he took on magical authority to know what is authentic because he claims he "did some research" --its pretty sickening how insensitive you guys can be , trying to come onto this company's space and talk up your own products. Its total disrespect, and you know it. Your disclaimer at the bottom only exemplifies the problem you pose-- An insidiously diplomatic person who actively seeks to undermine HI while propping up his own friends, all the while claiming "oh aye, innocent here, expressing rights I am"
and on your above
"authentic khukri " HI could make any of those as a customer desires, as it is most of us desire overbuilt knives, I desire both and will have one of everything.
even when asked to stop you still feel the need to post a chain of khukri pictures and claim that because of this , you are an authority ? to be an authority get a Phd Or be a kami.
If i went to your friend's forum and typed the way you do here sweet, you and I both know that I would be banned that day, after one message. the manner you have in that forum is so diametrically opposed to the way you act here its pretty amazing, should be a study in psychology, I like the way you preen and ask for his approval.
I see through you. you take advantage of the good will , just like others in the past, to press an agenda , HI means too much to me to let you continue in that agenda. otherwise you would have come here saying" I want more traditional khukris from HI!" instead of "HI makes tourist khukris, but I know some people who stick to the true weights and measurements of khukri "-- you did insult HI by acting like they could not provide for your needs -- instead of saying, "I look forward to HI making these things that way" -- you complained that HI was somehow misleading , and their khukri's were not traditional at all , you may not realize it is because of your love for this other man that you behaved this way, so I encourage you to take a look at that relationship, is he taking advantage of you, sweetcostarica? (love for another man, obviously I mean the same way anyone loves his friends, not there is anything wrong with being homosexual
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lets also not forget your running advertisements making false comparisons and novice deductions in your narcissistic youtube career , trying to promote the other company.tell your buddy to sell his stuff on its own merits, and quit trying to use subterfuge and obfuscation to bring in customers. that whole "HI Is tourist trap stuff" comes directly from your friends mouth, Directly.