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12AK not designed for me !!
- Thread starter Brendan
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I'm with ya, Brendan. I love the AK's design, but i lost a lot of function dealing with the handle length. The pen knife fits me much better.
~Jake
~Jake
wildmanh
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Brendan, I'd try rounding off the points like Munk sugested. Did that on a 20" Sirupati of mine. The handle doesn't look the best right now (never finished it) but it sure is comfortable. 
Had a 12" AK by KNN and one by Durba a few years ago and both of those handles were a little small, but not my new one. My new 12" AK (marked with a trident) fits my hand nicely and is just about everything I could ask for in a 12" AK. 
Good luck with modifying your AK or getting on with a bigger handle.
Had a 12" AK by KNN and one by Durba a few years ago and both of those handles were a little small, but not my new one. My new 12" AK (marked with a trident) fits my hand nicely and is just about everything I could ask for in a 12" AK. Good luck with modifying your AK or getting on with a bigger handle.
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Hey munk, can you explain to this non handyman type what tools and what I need to do to grind down the points on some of my smaller khuks ? Also how to refinsh it so it looks halfway decent. Most are wood handled.
I probably have some of the biggest hands on the forum and only find that those khuks with over 25" blades and handles longer to actually fit without them poking the crap out of my palm.
I've only seen two people in my life with hands as long and wide as mine. And that would be two people who are 6'9" and 6" 10".They also played basketball quite well and I'm only 5'11" and the only thing I can do is palm basketball, and I garuntee no one can get it out of my hand. Can't even dribble the ball without tripping much less shoot it.
BTW, I'll update you later on the thread you started about ruptured disks.
Thanks for any help,
CARman
I probably have some of the biggest hands on the forum and only find that those khuks with over 25" blades and handles longer to actually fit without them poking the crap out of my palm.
I've only seen two people in my life with hands as long and wide as mine. And that would be two people who are 6'9" and 6" 10".They also played basketball quite well and I'm only 5'11" and the only thing I can do is palm basketball, and I garuntee no one can get it out of my hand. Can't even dribble the ball without tripping much less shoot it.
BTW, I'll update you later on the thread you started about ruptured disks.
Thanks for any help,
CARman
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A vise with padded jaws, and few inexpensive rasps and files and an assortment of sandpaper is all you need to modify a wood (or for that matter, a horn) handle. Not to mention a little patience... I rarely use power tools on handles, they remove material faster than I can think. I liker rasps, files, and sandpaper. Nice, slow and easy. That's how my mind works...
Bri
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Brendan, if you want to sell it I'd be happy to take it off your hands, plus there would be the added convenience of me being in London. 
If you are interested feel free to contact me at stoofmeister@hotmail.com and I will wrack my brains to see if there is anything I can/am willing to trade for it (you aren't interested in military kit or anything like that are you?
If you are interested feel free to contact me at stoofmeister@hotmail.com and I will wrack my brains to see if there is anything I can/am willing to trade for it (you aren't interested in military kit or anything like that are you?
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Guys, this may be an issue of how the khuk is being held. I fouuld that for the smaller handles, you can get your first finger and thumb wrapped around the habaki part of the bolster. This is a secure grip, and gets the pad of the hand off of the point.
Also, (as demonstrated at the HI MW KK 04) the accurate viking sword repros (and the originals) have really short grips with that wide lobed pommel. But the way they held the sword is diff than the later ways of holding the sword. Instead of the square axe grip (which would make the lobed pommel bite the hand-heel or wrist), the sword grip was a more diagonal fingered grip that put the heel out to the side a bit. With the viking swords and khuks, this makes the rounded flared butt a sort of guide for the swing. Takes some getting used to, but in the end it is stable, comfy, and you get a nice callous on the heel instead of jabbed.
In this grip, the forefinger is almost over the cross guard (which on viking swords was small anyhow--not yet used for defense, but to keep the user's hand from slipping onto the blade). Another grip used by the vikings put the little finger onto the lobed pommel, which also pus the hand more beside the pommel than behind it.
Just trying to suggest an alternative...up to you if you mod the knife or the grip.
Keith
Also, (as demonstrated at the HI MW KK 04) the accurate viking sword repros (and the originals) have really short grips with that wide lobed pommel. But the way they held the sword is diff than the later ways of holding the sword. Instead of the square axe grip (which would make the lobed pommel bite the hand-heel or wrist), the sword grip was a more diagonal fingered grip that put the heel out to the side a bit. With the viking swords and khuks, this makes the rounded flared butt a sort of guide for the swing. Takes some getting used to, but in the end it is stable, comfy, and you get a nice callous on the heel instead of jabbed.
In this grip, the forefinger is almost over the cross guard (which on viking swords was small anyhow--not yet used for defense, but to keep the user's hand from slipping onto the blade). Another grip used by the vikings put the little finger onto the lobed pommel, which also pus the hand more beside the pommel than behind it.
Just trying to suggest an alternative...up to you if you mod the knife or the grip.
Keith
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With all the "cho-creep" there ought to be enough room to choke up on the handle.
Where's that hand-size survey we did?
Where's that hand-size survey we did?
