12" sirupati blem 4-Sale

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I have a 12" sirupati thatI find I really don't need. Maybe Jim's rubbing off on me :) Anyway, it's a KNN blem. The blemish was a crack in the horn handle which I filled with black/gray epoxy. I'ts a good repair, but not invisible. Karda has been partially sharpened, and the Chakma has a few stroke lines from use. No use on the khukuri. I'll let it for $40, + shipping. Paypal would work otherwise check or MO. Anyone interested?

Pat
 
Old or new style scabbard? If it is the tooled old style I would be interested and can pay via PayPal.

Ryan
 
If Ryan decides not to take it, I'm interested. You can email me at raghorn at clearwater dot net to work out details, I can pay by PayPal also.
 
I'll check on the scabbard when I get home. It's an older knife, so it's from the Sarki with no name, but I don't think it's tooled.

Thanks for the interest.

Pat
 
If it's not tooled I'll pass. I am very fond of the old style tooled scabbards and horn handles, I wish I had more of both.

Ryan
 
I will defer to nytowl on this one so he can start his collection off with an excellent deal.

Let me ask a question here: has anybody regularly used a khukuri as a big game dressing/ skinning/ butchering knife? I was thinking that a 9"-12" sirupati combined with a large (4" blade) karda might make a dandy combination for hunting season. Might be tough to build a scabbard to accomodate such a combination, but the idea intrigues me. Any comments?
 
I haven't posted over here in quite a while, though I have been lurking rather fervently. Thought I'd jump in here.

That sounds like a really good idea. While I've never held a Sirupati, it would seem to have plenty of blade to handle quartering a deer, and the karda would make short work of the belly slice and caping chores.

As for the sheath, if you went with more of a leukko/puukko type sheath instead of the traditonal Neapalese sheath, it should work well. Just mount the karda on the front of the sheath, with the handle of the karda coming to the top of the khukuri sheath. You'd likely need a 12 inch or slightly longer Sirupati to get the blade length needed to allow this mounting option, though.
 
This looks like a project I will have to investigate further.

Pat, if nytowl passes, my offer stands.
 
Wow, lots of activity over Sunday. The sheath is not engraved. Since Raghorn's deferred, it goes to Nytowl, Assuming your interested. If not, then back to Raghorn. I'm guessing insured post will probably be around $5, so the total should be around $40. Drop me a line here or at my email, Nytowl. We can work out the details.

Vshrake - We just keep running into each other. Welcome to the Cantina! I think there are probably a number of folks who use their khukuri's for hunting. I know one of the varminters over at the GH forum uses his 12" for clearing sightlines. You should start a new thread to get the whole story.

Being a southpaw, sheaths are a problem for me. I've worked up a quickdraw (based on Terry Sisco's design) that seems to work pretty well. I need to duplicate it in heavy leather, though. A pouch type sheath would be easy to add to the front of this style.

Pat
 
I'm also left handed, Outdoors, so when I got my Bhojpure from GH (I'll get an HI one of these days, I promise) I took the frog off and reversed it. Works pretty well, except that the karda and chakma are kind of in the way, but a khukuri isn't exactly a speedrig, anyway. :~}

I mainly hunt small game, so a khuk would be overkill, but I have used my Bhojpure on goats that I've butchered. I was able to take the back legs off a very large buck goat with only 2 or 3 chops on each leg, right below the knee. Tough bone, and the edge didn't chip or roll. I also used it to skin that goat, and the natural "sweep" of the blade made it a great skinner. My khuk is my main field knife, any time I need some big stuff chopped or whatever. I've slao used it around the woodstove to chop kindling and split logs if I was too lazy to take it back outside when I found one a little too large for the stove.
 
If you guys ever saw the inside of my hunting daypack you'd laugh. Half of my available space is taken up by cutlery. I carry five knives in it for field dressing, skinning and quartering.

The primary reason for this is because once I've got something down I don't want to have to stop every 10 minutes to resharpen my blade, I want to get down to business and get it packed out.

I can get thru an average whitetail easily enough with only one or two knives, but elk and black bear hides are hell on edges and I generally have to use them all, and I'm rarely close enough to anyone else to get assistance. So on a successful day I end up with a pack full of bloody blades to haul out along with my game.

I've seen those "Alaskan Guide" combos in Cabelas and elsewhere (a flat bladed skinner and a pointy caping knife in a sheath), and I'm sure they're fine blades, but I doubt they'll hold their edges any better than what I've got now, and for the price they're asking, I'm certainly not willing to bet on it.

I would love to try out a small khuk/large karda combo on my next outing and then maybe replace all those blades in my daypack with smoked oysters and swiss cheese. ;)
 
BTTT
no word from Nytowl. I'll give him a few more hours. I'd wait longer, but I just got my credit card bill:eek: :eek: :eek:

RE khukuri quick draw & Lefty's. Reversing the frog does work, but since the karda and chakma don't generally fit that snugly, I don't care for it. Terry Sisco did a quickdraw where the wood was cut along the front edge of the scabbard. That inspired me to do an all leather version. All I had was oil tanned leather - I hope to do another in tooling leather. That should be stiffer and sturdier.

Pat
 
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