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Good looker. Is it my eyes playing tricks or is that a gunsight cho?
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Nice arsenal blade from c1870s that someone has taken the trouble to jazz up the grip with the inlaid bone plugs and rolled design of copper or brass just beneath the ring. You'd have to tell me more about the buttcap and whether the materials and design match the metal ring. And what kind of retaining tang does it have? Please tell me there was a scabbard with it...
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John, the buttcap is brass, but is plain (no scrollwork).
The end of the tang is just peened over the buttcap. There is no keeper, diamond shape or otherwise.
And, I am pleased to say there is a scabbard, although the chape and any sort of frog (if there ever was one) is missing.
I will email you some pics of the handle and scabbard if you want to see.
--Mike L.
The end of the tang is just peened over the buttcap. There is no keeper, diamond shape or otherwise.
And, I am pleased to say there is a scabbard, although the chape and any sort of frog (if there ever was one) is missing.
I will email you some pics of the handle and scabbard if you want to see.
--Mike L.
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Nice blade Mike.
Well as long as we are looking at old family pictures....
Does anyone know what this is? I haven't quite seen another one like it (notice the odd cho/blade angle). It very nicely put together and I have long suspected that this is an old knife with an extensively reprofiled blade.
n2s
Well as long as we are looking at old family pictures....
Does anyone know what this is? I haven't quite seen another one like it (notice the odd cho/blade angle). It very nicely put together and I have long suspected that this is an old knife with an extensively reprofiled blade.
n2s
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I got a question for all of you guys with old and older khukuris that still have the karda and chakma along with the master blade.
Just how hard are the chakmas on these beautiful old pieces or has anyone checked?
It would be interesting to have a few of them Rockwell tested in a couple of places to see just how hard they really are.
I have seen some very old steel that is almost glass like in its black polish and diamond hard.
And I think maybe that it would actually take a diamond to scratch some of that old steel.
The present day chakmas don't have to be as hard as the old ones since only a survivalist or recreationist maybe would try to use the chakms as a fire steel with a piece of flint.
I have a real nice little fire stick thans to my bud Howard Wallace that will make sparks with almost any piece of steel, but if I were to rely only on a piece of hard steel with native flint found locally to make a spark I would have to take one of my Marble's along.
They're one of the few production knives made today that are actually hard enough to get sparks from flint with. Pity.
Just how hard are the chakmas on these beautiful old pieces or has anyone checked?
It would be interesting to have a few of them Rockwell tested in a couple of places to see just how hard they really are.
I have seen some very old steel that is almost glass like in its black polish and diamond hard.
And I think maybe that it would actually take a diamond to scratch some of that old steel.
The present day chakmas don't have to be as hard as the old ones since only a survivalist or recreationist maybe would try to use the chakms as a fire steel with a piece of flint.
I have a real nice little fire stick thans to my bud Howard Wallace that will make sparks with almost any piece of steel, but if I were to rely only on a piece of hard steel with native flint found locally to make a spark I would have to take one of my Marble's along.
They're one of the few production knives made today that are actually hard enough to get sparks from flint with. Pity.
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Great stuff and thanks.
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Mike, please do send a couple more photos of the knife and scabbard. That buttcap may be a replacement of someting long gone. And does this have a single or double fullered blade? I can't tell from the photo.
I agree about fullered blades. One of my favorites is a single full length fuller that is absolutely perfect. Someday when I can get pix directly back on the forum you'll get a look see. It's about as plain a kukri as you'll find, but you know it was a real hard worker.
N2S, another unique knife from you extensive collection. I think it started out as an old kukri but was altered/rebuilt/customized by a western smith. Besides the recut blade and the round deep bolster look at the 2 kardas. Very western in design plus the scabbard seems to have a keeper strap, but the most wonderful thing is the built up space alloted for the 2 small knives on the front of the scabbard. I would like to take a hard look at this one someday.
I agree about fullered blades. One of my favorites is a single full length fuller that is absolutely perfect. Someday when I can get pix directly back on the forum you'll get a look see. It's about as plain a kukri as you'll find, but you know it was a real hard worker.
N2S, another unique knife from you extensive collection. I think it started out as an old kukri but was altered/rebuilt/customized by a western smith. Besides the recut blade and the round deep bolster look at the 2 kardas. Very western in design plus the scabbard seems to have a keeper strap, but the most wonderful thing is the built up space alloted for the 2 small knives on the front of the scabbard. I would like to take a hard look at this one someday.
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Many thanks for great help and pix.