Parang and Parang XL.

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ged

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jul 16, 2009
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In the woods if possible.
The parangs have arrived. The quantities seem correct but I've only counted the outer packaging, I haven't yet checked all the boxes for content which will take some time.

After I've weighed them and checked with Royal Mail for the postage charges I'll post a message to everyone who has registered on the alternative site. I'll give the costs there so you'll just need to login to see how much you need to pay and where to send the payment.
 
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Ph34r

Settler
Feb 2, 2010
642
1
34
Oxfordshire, England
Awesome! CAn we get a photo of the look on your face when you open the boxes and see the parangs of legend?
Waht kind of postage do you think you will go for?
 

ged

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jul 16, 2009
4,976
13
In the woods if possible.
Hi all,

As I said earlier today, the parangs have arrived. I have now checked them over. Here is what I found:

Each parang comes in a cardboard box. I unpacked every one to check that it was in pristine condition. I also checked the survival kits where you had ordered them. The parangs are well sharpened but not what I would call razor sharp, more like microserrated. I would say that these initial edges are very satisfactory for a tool of this kind but I will be working on mine a little. :) I tested mine on a few bits of junk lying around and was well impressed with the cutting ability but I expect there will be some more extensive product reports from you quite soon. :) One of the XLs showed signs of being handled, but clearly (and IMHO very fortunately:) ) not by Alfredo. I kept that one for myself. A couple of the XLs and 6" had small spots of glue on the blades and so did a couple of the XL sheaths. The glue cleaned off the blades very easily but I didn't try cleaning the sheaths and just kept them back as there are several spare at the moment. One press stud securing the parang in the sheath of one of the XLs fell to pieces when I opened it. I kept that one back too and I think I'll have to return it to Heinnie but I'll see if I can repair it easily first. The sheaths are of Chinese make and not bad at all for the price. Each survival kit contained a small sachet of salt. In each case this was lying at the top of the container when I opened it. In a couple of them it was in contact with the tiny firesteel and it had started to corrode it, although not seriously and in all but one case I doubt you'd know if I hadn't told you. In my opinion the corrosion would become serious if it was left for very much longer and I will report that to Heinnie if Alfredo doesn't beat me to it. In most cases I put the salt sachet in a polythene bag and packed it in the box separately. In one case (MikeE) I left it out of the parcel altogether to keep the package below 1kg and so save 115p on postage. Mike, next time you visit Burger King you can top up your salt content. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT STORE SALT IN SACHETS IN YOUR SURVIVAL KIT UNLESS YOU FIRST WRAP IT WELL IN POLYTHENE. Even a sealed bottle is risky if the kit will experience some shaking and vibration. I've seen serious damage to metal articles in things like survival kits caused by contact with salt for long periods. Salt is hygroscopic (it absorbs water) and wet salt will corrode practically anything with metal in it like knife blades, metal whistles, wire saws, safety pins and all those things are in the kit.

For those of you who have sent me their addresses the parangs are now all packed and ready to go, although I do still need a full name for Korvin Karbon before I can send his.

Please log in on the alternative site and check your PMs.

Cheers,

Ged
 

TeeDee

Full Member
Nov 6, 2008
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Ged , Very Impressed with your attention to detail and willingness to take 'one' for the team.
 

ged

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jul 16, 2009
4,976
13
In the woods if possible.
PS: Please don't expect to hear from me again this evening. I've been working on this since about 11am when the parangs arrived and I have to do a couple of other things now. Eat something for example. :)
 

Dougster

Bushcrafter through and through
Oct 13, 2005
5,254
238
The banks of the Deveron.
Please sent me one with a duff press stud. I can change them out with ease and you shouldn't bite all the faults in this.

PM sent on jubilee site as requested.

Check book waiting.
 
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Alfredo

Settler
Oct 25, 2009
624
2
ITALY (ALPS)
Hi all,

As I said earlier today, the parangs have arrived. I have now checked them over. Here is what I found:

Each parang comes in a cardboard box. I unpacked every one to check that it was in pristine condition. I also checked the survival kits where you had ordered them. The parangs are well sharpened but not what I would call razor sharp, more like microserrated. I would say that these initial edges are very satisfactory for a tool of this kind but I will be working on mine a little. :) I tested mine on a few bits of junk lying around and was well impressed with the cutting ability but I expect there will be some more extensive product reports from you quite soon. :) One of the XLs showed signs of being handled, but clearly (and IMHO very fortunately:) ) not by Alfredo. I kept that one for myself. A couple of the XLs and 6" had small spots of glue on the blades and so did a couple of the XL sheaths. The glue cleaned off the blades very easily but I didn't try cleaning the sheaths and just kept them back as there are several spare at the moment. One press stud securing the parang in the sheath of one of the XLs fell to pieces when I opened it. I kept that one back too and I think I'll have to return it to Heinnie but I'll see if I can repair it easily first. The sheaths are of Chinese make and not bad at all for the price. Each survival kit contained a small sachet of salt. In each case this was lying at the top of the container when I opened it. In a couple of them it was in contact with the tiny firesteel and it had started to corrode it, although not seriously and in all but one case I doubt you'd know if I hadn't told you. In my opinion the corrosion would become serious if it was left for very much longer and I will report that to Heinnie if Alfredo doesn't beat me to it. In most cases I put the salt sachet in a polythene bag and packed it in the box separately. In one case (MikeE) I left it out of the parcel altogether to keep the package below 1kg and so save 115p on postage. Mike, next time you visit Burger King you can top up your salt content. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT STORE SALT IN SACHETS IN YOUR SURVIVAL KIT UNLESS YOU FIRST WRAP IT WELL IN POLYTHENE. Even a sealed bottle is risky if the kit will experience some shaking and vibration. I've seen serious damage to metal articles in things like survival kits caused by contact with salt for long periods. Salt is hygroscopic (it absorbs water) and wet salt will corrode practically anything with metal in it like knife blades, metal whistles, wire saws, safety pins and all those things are in the kit.

For those of you who have sent me their addresses the parangs are now all packed and ready to go, although I do still need a full name for Korvin Karbon before I can send his.

Please log in on the alternative site and check your PMs.

Cheers,

Ged

Ged, great mini-review you done!
For sure I'm really happy if you (and the others guys of course) reports any lack - as per the salt stuff - to your seller or me, this is the way to improve!
Can't wait for your tests on field mates, any case.
Ciao, Alfredo
 

ged

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jul 16, 2009
4,976
13
In the woods if possible.
Hi all,

The main reason that I set it up the alternative forum for this group buy was to get around problems with the BushcraftUK forum software which make life very difficult for people arranging group buys.

Well, it looks like I've found a bug in the alternative forum software. Sigh. It goes like this:

On July 30 at 19:16 BST (18:16 GMT) I sent one message to thirteen recipients on the alternative forum. The thirteen recipients were all those who had registered by that time. As I said, it was one message. I typed it just once, and I told the forum software to send it to the 13 recipients. Which it did. Almost.

To ten of the recipients it send the message correctly, using HTML so that a browser would show it on the screen formatted as I intended it to appear, with paragraphs and columns.

To three of the recipients it sent plain text. At present I have no idea why. It was formatted just as nicely, but your browsers would probably not display it nicely formatted, with paragraphs and columns. They would just show all the words in one big block of text, making it very hard to read. I'm quite impressed by that, it must have been a lot harder to write code that would do it wrong in quite that way than it would have been to write something that would simply get it right. I only found out about this by a completely freakish accident with a mouse.

Anyway the three recipients who suffered this way are 5.10leader, Adriatikfan and Atross. For you three I'll send the messages again, so hopefully you'll be able to see what they should have looked like.

This group buy hasn't been software's finest hour. :(


Group buy status:

AndyP and Muddyhands still haven't made contact.

I still need a full name for Korvin Karbon.

Cheques should start flooding into my office in the morning. I'll keep you, er, posted.
 

Alfredo

Settler
Oct 25, 2009
624
2
ITALY (ALPS)
Hi all,
I would like flare you that yesterday a good friend of mine announced me that his Parang XL reported a damage on the blade (to be precise, a cutting part of blade was bending) working on a seasoned part of false acacie, diameter 6 centimeters.
He was on the XL since 3 weeks, and he was really happy with it, having worked and cleaned a large part of his woodland with XL.
Past saturday he was showing the cutting skills of the XL to his nephew, and he used (a bit too much ardently, he said :) seasoned wood branches stocked two years ago for fire; at the end the blade showed a bending on the larger part of the blade. He completed anyway the cleaning work of the woodland with the XL on Sunday.
I had still not the chance to see the damaged blade.
Well, of course this did'nt make me happy, I just may say that Parang XL was designed and realized to work as a machete, on dense but normally fresh woods. I never had problems since 1.5 months having worked also on dry and hard woods, but who knows maybe I was just lucky.
Regards, Alfredo
PS at least I'll had the bending blade I'll post pics.
 

Ph34r

Settler
Feb 2, 2010
642
1
34
Oxfordshire, England
Hi all,
I would like flare you that yesterday a good friend of mine announced me that his Parang XL reported a damage on the blade (to be precise, a cutting part of blade was bending) working on a seasoned part of false acacie, diameter 6 centimeters.
He was on the XL since 3 weeks, and he was really happy with it, having worked and cleaned a large part of his woodland with XL.
Past saturday he was showing the cutting skills of the XL to his nephew, and he used (a bit too much ardently, he said :) seasoned wood branches stocked two years ago for fire; at the end the blade showed a bending on the larger part of the blade. He completed anyway the cleaning work of the woodland with the XL on Sunday.
I had still not the chance to see the damaged blade.
Well, of course this did'nt make me happy, I just may say that Parang XL was designed and realized to work as a machete, on dense but normally fresh woods. I never had problems since 1.5 months having worked also on dry and hard woods, but who knows maybe I was just lucky.
Regards, Alfredo
PS at least I'll had the bending blade I'll post pics.

Oh so now you tell us...

No worries, as with everything, some just have manufacture flaws and the problems usually have nothing to do with the designand are uncommom. (for example the spyderco bushcraft uk problem)

I am sure it will work fine, well at least Hennie haynes better hope so, cos with that size of blade I am sure I could tempt Hennie into personally inserting the XL in to his rectum. The parang looks a real awesome blade, and I am sure that it was just a one off :)
 

Ph34r

Settler
Feb 2, 2010
642
1
34
Oxfordshire, England
Mine just arrived THANK YOU GED! Looks even more aweosme in the flesh, and I cannot wait to use it on my trip later next month. Probably should get back to work now, but i will give Ged a big A+++ for service, support and commitment.

And Alfredo deserves a round of applause for a great product.
 
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