My #2 son showed up Saturday afternoon with some things he called Khuks. One he ordered from Brigade Quatermaster? The other came from Atlanta.
Didn't look like none of mine.
He pulled out the black blade from Quarter.- and asked if he could go down by the creek and see how it would cut. I talked him into drinking some coffee and then I would go with him. I pointed out a limb that was just the right height to smack even some of the Grandbabies in the face. Just before he swung that blade I told him to make sure he was swing straight because that blade looked awful thin. He swung, the blade bounced, and I hollered at him not to swing again. I was straight behind him only to the side enough to watch that blade.
He did what he was told and the knife came unglued right at the sweet spot. It left a triangle chunk of blade in that limb as close as I could measure about 5/8 long and 3/8 to 7/16 high. The thing that really gets to me is, that knife is supposed to be made by Ontario out of 1095 steel. the same kind of steel Marine K-bars are made of, and those blades are good for only cutting and stabbing, nothing else.
I waited while he went to the house and got his other knife. On another limb but of about the same thickness. He hit twice and it was down. He move his strike a bit and took the other one off in two hits. there is nothing pretty about this knife from India, but it is head and shoulders above the Onterio knife. There was a sticker on the India blade that read "Windlass"
Bryan used the Windlass knife for about an hour and it not only stayed pretty sharp there just was no appreciable wear that I could see. I can't say much for the karda and chakma. They were just for looks. Not even useable. The big blade was a full 1/4 inch thick and felt like you had a knife in your hand. Chiruwa type handle of Oak.
The Ontario knife was less that a 1/4" and was a straight taper to about 1/16 or less just almost to the edge. The black coating that is supposed to prevent rust was covering machine marck and large patches of grind marks on both sides of the blade.
Sound like junk to me. The young man was hot. He said "31 years old. When am I going to learn to listen when you tell me something is a bad idea."
Now he is saving his pennies to get an HI Khuk.
Didn't look like none of mine.
He pulled out the black blade from Quarter.- and asked if he could go down by the creek and see how it would cut. I talked him into drinking some coffee and then I would go with him. I pointed out a limb that was just the right height to smack even some of the Grandbabies in the face. Just before he swung that blade I told him to make sure he was swing straight because that blade looked awful thin. He swung, the blade bounced, and I hollered at him not to swing again. I was straight behind him only to the side enough to watch that blade.
He did what he was told and the knife came unglued right at the sweet spot. It left a triangle chunk of blade in that limb as close as I could measure about 5/8 long and 3/8 to 7/16 high. The thing that really gets to me is, that knife is supposed to be made by Ontario out of 1095 steel. the same kind of steel Marine K-bars are made of, and those blades are good for only cutting and stabbing, nothing else.
I waited while he went to the house and got his other knife. On another limb but of about the same thickness. He hit twice and it was down. He move his strike a bit and took the other one off in two hits. there is nothing pretty about this knife from India, but it is head and shoulders above the Onterio knife. There was a sticker on the India blade that read "Windlass"
Bryan used the Windlass knife for about an hour and it not only stayed pretty sharp there just was no appreciable wear that I could see. I can't say much for the karda and chakma. They were just for looks. Not even useable. The big blade was a full 1/4 inch thick and felt like you had a knife in your hand. Chiruwa type handle of Oak.
The Ontario knife was less that a 1/4" and was a straight taper to about 1/16 or less just almost to the edge. The black coating that is supposed to prevent rust was covering machine marck and large patches of grind marks on both sides of the blade.
Sound like junk to me. The young man was hot. He said "31 years old. When am I going to learn to listen when you tell me something is a bad idea."
Now he is saving his pennies to get an HI Khuk.
I'm glad I found this site before learning the hard way on what a good khuk is.
