A wee little beastie from the past.. and where are the other 7 ?? ** Picture Heavy **

[rfguy]

Like many of you I thought back and forth :indecisiveness: on that recently offered Super CAK. Fortunately for me though another forumite made something available and I could not ignore the siren song. Imagine something larger than a Super CAK . It was quite a distraction that I simply could not pass up. Yes larger pieces exist but this one is quite respectable in its own right.

Back in 2004 Uncle Bill listed eight pieces of what he called the "Mother of all Ang Kholas". The statistics of the one I picked up are:
Chiruwa style Ang Khola by Sher
26.5 inches overall
74 oz (4 lbs 10 oz)
horn handle
brass bolster and pommel cap

For comparison note that the small CAK is 16.5" 29 oz and the Cherokee Rose is only 20" overall.

The Mother of all CAKs has a nice beefy handle to match.

Mother and her tools.

Love those fullers.

Usually I prefer wood handles but this horn handle has got some nice character to it.

A closer look at the blade.

Taking the long view. Quite nice and straight which is amazing to me for such a large piece.

At 74 ounces it is quite a handful held outward while shooting a grip picture.

So where are the other seven pieces of this gem? Sound off with pictures.

 

[Shinook]

Baeutifull and amazing!
Thanks for sharing, being new here I didn't know such a thing existed.
Truly a work of art, and I imagine a beast of a chopper.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[bladeright]

now thats a SUPER CAK i would love to have

those need to go back into production!!

 

[rfguy]

those need to go back into production!!

Well it never was a production item per se. Back then apparently lots of folks had been asking for something in the 25" to 30" range so Uncle Bill set those requests aside for awhile and then finally ordered up a batch of eight of these beastly CAKs. The old thread shows that most of them went the first day of offering. As far ask I know there were only eight made and I have not seen any like them since then. That was why I decided to get it as I did not figure for them to show up again anytime soon.

Note that in reality that this is something that hardly anybody would really seriously use. I could see myself only chopping down one small tree with this one-handed before calling it quits for safety reasons. If they made one a little over six pounds with a 10" or 12" handle with 36" overall length then I could see using it, with two hands, as one really mean axe though. That would be fun to use.

 

[JayGoliath]

With Sher you will almost always have a giant in hand.