An old forward curving khukuri

Howard Wallace

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Since Yvsa is in the process of designing his forward curving khukuri, I thought I’d show this one.

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It is 14” long, and 14 oz. Max blade width is 1 3/4". Spine thickness is about 5/16". The handle is Nepalese sized. This has a good feel to it. It’s light and quick, and you wouldn’t want to be in its way.



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That's a nice looking khukuri, Howard. I'm partial to forward-curving khuks, and would like to see HI offer one much like this except with a larger handle.
 
Howard, where do you find all of these marvelous toys? Thank you for the pix fix.

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It's quite possible that one of the secret projects involves a forward curving khukuri, and with that, I would suggest that people sit tight until Uncle Bill gets back.

Harry
 
If whatever special project is in the works can be sharpened, it'll probably sell.
 
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Thanks Howard!!
That's a really nice looking khukuri!!
What's the blade length on that little beauty if you don't mind measureing it for me?
These fascinate me with the full curved spine from the handle to the point. I would bet that the spine on that one is also radiused isn't it?
Any idea as to its age?



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The straight-line length from the tip of the blade to the place where the top of the blade meets the handle is 11 3/4 “. A top view of the spine shows a ridge down the middle, lightly sloping to each side.

John Powell tells me this is probably an officer’s khukuri from towards the end of WWII.
 
I am making an educated guess from the picture, size and weight. It is very difficult to assess these things without it being in hand. There are some very obvious models but with so many variations and random marks it can still be a crapshoot. The other roadblock is not having the scabbard. This is as important to a knife's history as anything and is half the value of an old knife.

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Thanks again Howard. John's most certainly right about
having the knife in the hand to be able to accurately judge one!!
From what little I know and, finding that the more I learn the less I actually know, I would have thought that one was much older just from its profile.

I am curious as to the handleing characteristics of this style knife in relation to the ones we're used too....

The Ganga Ram is a "Forward Curveing" khukuri, but the handle drops about 1/4" from a Straight place about 2" long just in front of the bolster.

The drawings I am playing around with have a "Full Arc" running from butt cap to point.
This trying to design a "Full Curving" knife is becoming very interesting.
Your little knife appears to have about a 3" drop with a straight edge layed across from the edge to the bottom part of the handle the best I can tell from trying to measure the pic.
I was fairly close on the blade length though.
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The latest one of 4 drawn so far has a 5 1/4" curve an earlier one has about a 4 1/2" drop. My Ganga Ram has a tad over 4" drop.
There is a lot of factors that will determine the amount of drop or curve. The thickness of blade and how much flare the handle has. I don't know of any other way to try and measure it though.

This may turn out to be a lot tougher than I first thought it would be.
I think the amount of drop or radius will have a great deal to do with how the knife will handle. Perhaps I need to check the others I have to see how much drop differential there is for instance between a Sirupati and an Ang Khola.

John since you have handled so many old khukuris with the "Full Curve" could you give me any idea of what more curve or degree of arc makes in "feel" or handleing characteristics with one of less curve or arc?

I may wind up making 3 or 4 or more wood prototypes before this project is finished.
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Oh Well. It's not as if I have something else to do.
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