I got this on last friday's Deal 0f The Day for a friend of mine who tried out some of my khukuris a few weeks ago and just like me, fell in love with the Chitlangi.
Exact measurements are:
18.5" overall length
12.25" blade length
I called him on his cell phone when I got it out of the box and by the time he got off work a few hours later I had applied one of my notorious surgical hand convexed edges on it.
So, when he arrived we did some cutting and chopping with our new khukuris.
One thing I can say about the 18.5" Panchthar is this:
In my opinion, this is the katana of khukuris!
It is incredibly fast and agile as a cat. The cutting power is phenomenal and equal to my larger khukuris in some ways.
VERY sharp point with excellent penetrating power.
The panchthar chitlangi would be my #1 pick as a pure self-defense fighting khukuri. I bet this thing would be downright vicious in a street fight.
Sharks beware: if I see a Panchthar Chitlangi of 20" or so, I'm pouncing on it on sight!
This one has a small crack on the back of the saatisal handle, but after an hour of chopping and cutting, it didn't become any larger. I think it's just a surface crack and advised him to put some superglue or epoxy in it and/or polyurethane the handle as a preventative measure.
But needless to say though, he loves it and plans buying more. Soon another shark will be in our waters. Look out.
Here it is, beautiful work by kami Santosh:
Exact measurements are:
18.5" overall length
12.25" blade length
I called him on his cell phone when I got it out of the box and by the time he got off work a few hours later I had applied one of my notorious surgical hand convexed edges on it.
So, when he arrived we did some cutting and chopping with our new khukuris.
One thing I can say about the 18.5" Panchthar is this:
In my opinion, this is the katana of khukuris!
It is incredibly fast and agile as a cat. The cutting power is phenomenal and equal to my larger khukuris in some ways.
VERY sharp point with excellent penetrating power.
The panchthar chitlangi would be my #1 pick as a pure self-defense fighting khukuri. I bet this thing would be downright vicious in a street fight.
Sharks beware: if I see a Panchthar Chitlangi of 20" or so, I'm pouncing on it on sight!
This one has a small crack on the back of the saatisal handle, but after an hour of chopping and cutting, it didn't become any larger. I think it's just a surface crack and advised him to put some superglue or epoxy in it and/or polyurethane the handle as a preventative measure.
But needless to say though, he loves it and plans buying more. Soon another shark will be in our waters. Look out.
Here it is, beautiful work by kami Santosh:
That poor 'chuck.