My new weapon of choice.

All this money on all these toys - most of them useless... but fun!!!! Wish I had some of them

If we are going non-traditional...inorganic chemistry was the best 'weapons' class I ever had.

You can see the cool sai I bought last year at worbingtonsteel.com

I need some advice. How to get the pictures up? Please don't say

Upload the picture to some online service, like Photobucket. Then, use the 'reply' option here (not 'quick repy'). On that page, you'll see a small box to the lower right on the screen labeled "Instant UBB Code ". Choose 'Image'...and you should be able to past the URL/link in the dialogue box/prompt.

Here is one of my knives, not the one I actually carry but a nice piece, I think

Thanks Master Harlan.

Just the remnants (many pieces given away over the decades) of my modest collection of traditional South-East Asian weapons that I used to train with in my much younger days. The piece on the left (called a "tumbuk lada" -- pepper pounder) is over 100 years old and used to belong to a personal bodyguard of a sultan and may have seen some action. The "kerambit" at the bottom is hand-made in the traditional style with a buffalo horn handle and it is at least 25 years old. The one on the right is a Javanese farming tool cum weapon with a rosewood handle and brass fittings. For scale the floor tiles are 10 inches square.

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Just to show how small and difficult to detect a kerambit can be and also of course to practice some more image hosting skills.

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