Another Tin Chirra/three-fuller Khukuri...

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Yep....three....count 'em....three......I rather like the wood and was sad when i saw others bought with same and me missing them....i christen it "RARE! EXOTIC!!! Spalted Rosewood!!"

1.9 lbs of bare knife...the handle quite comfortable and roomy, despite curve making it appear shorter than it is...most radical taper at ricasso i have owned yet, ....while the thickest spine lives at peak of bend and forward and between 5/16ths" and 3/8ths" thick, more a solid 5/16ths" at handle...

















Thank you, Dear Yangdu....i now have the classic leaf-shaped arched and multi-fullered classic Nepali knife i wanted, and thanks only to you.....Thamar did a wonderful job....
 
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A beauty. i cant quite make out the Kami stamp. Is it a Thamar? The handle looks similar to the one i got last week.
 
Tis a Thamar just as yours...it enters my mind the spine thickness due to forging out the top fuller....narrower spine behind fuller extruded by forming same.....i ordered one due to that type of uniqueness from a very labor intensive blade style....and Triple I-beam Ford Tough!....

Another additional observation....elegant cho at ricasso...it has the deepest engraving i have yet seen chiseled the length of the spine.....and i very much like the blade markings were likewise chisel/punched and only slightly touched up with connect the dots almost impossible to detect......i understand when marks get nearly removed during finish and blade already hardened, and something must be done, so never a serious gripe no matter what....but this one far more to my liking...

And again came quite sharp out of box and sheath and is my elegant large Khukuri....i adore it the more i adore it....or even look at these photos....it will take a while for everything i like to sink in...steel buttplate, nickel silver chape....
 
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While no stranger to blades, I've been collecting for 40+ years. However, I'm new to Kukri's. That certainly doesn't keep me from recognizing a beautiful blade, style and workmanship. They are all encompassed in your fine specimen. Congrats.
 
I own more than a few ABS Master blades and "name" classic forged knives, and what these guys in Nepal can do with junkyard scrap, a piece of rail for an anvil, industrial hair dryer (for all practical purposes) blower small coal forge and with an electric powered hand held grinder just totally floors me.......and then the amazingly low price on so many hours of work....a local art form not up to our industrial standards as it predates the industrial age.....i love them and God bless Dear Yangdu for providing them to us while helping those who would be normally poorest of the poor....
 
Truthfully i trust these knives to not let me down in extreme circumstances far more than i trust most any "name" knife....these knives have been tried for centuries....and they keep making them because they WORK....if i ever manage to damage one of these, it is because i would know i was doing something which would totally destroy any other...
 
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Nice score dude!

Thamar is a true artist. Haven't seen a single one he's made yet that didn't speak to me. I really dig the 2-tone handle on that one.
 
I recently grabbed one of these and I share your feelings 100%. The cho is freakin masterful art. Everything!
 
The more I look at your Tin Chirra, the more beauty I see in it. I can only imagine how it looks up front! I have a few questions that I hope you don't mind fielding.

Are they a special order, I don't see them on the HI site?

Do the fullers lighten the blade enough to shift balance reward?

It appears to be quite large, what would you guess is the OAL? I'm not a very good judge even though your photos are great and include the scale.

Thanks,
J
 
They've been up on DOD lately, and most come in around 16-18", 17" has been most common I'd say. No special order necessary, just a little patience!

The fullers actually reduce the overall weight while keeping the balance forward. You'll find this to be true with the Dui and Yek Chirras, as well as pretty much any khuk with fullers.
 
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Left to right
Yek 18" 21 oz
Dui 18" 23 oz
Tin 18" 24 oz

All DOTD's.
Easy as 1,2,3;)
Good luck BigBore:thumbup:
 
LOL ndoghouse! Is that a horn handle on the Tin or dark wood? I only have my cell phone so, I can't tell on the small screen.
 
At 1.9lbs this thing feels quite heavy both in hand and out front....balance point is just at end of blade engraving.

It measures straight line from tip of tang to blade tip at 17". Feels massive in hand due to fatter grip front, and it will take adjusting to what with a curved hooked shorter feel.

Even though it feels much as an Ang Khola, the fullers and forged/ground edge bevel is thinner and deeper so maybe not the one to beat through a very large hard black golfball knot in oak....but is going to bite deep in whatever whacked.....

Totally different which is what i wanted....the more i handle it, the more exotic it becomes....

As for ordering, just as everyone says.....it was my intention to get one from the start, and such a one is even overlaid on an old ghurka print on the main HI site.....i had a shopping order already in mind (next up an M43) and it was rather bothersome then seeing them come up on DOTD at great prices but me already obligated for others....as this one's time came up, i simply emailed Dear Yangdu and said i would like one with much curve to handle and blade and hoped she had that and with white metal fittings....

She sent me a beauty and i am forever grateful...as mentioned several times i do not angle for sale prices as i want max funding going to the company and those dependent upon it, so if not in stock, no problem and i shall just wait.....i know she has been known to sell simply at cost just to keep money flowing back to kamis, and i would just as soon pay a bit more as my own little way of helping out....
 
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With me, it is usually too-much-information, but you are welcome all the same....you will note variations in them, such as more extreme fullers in some and almost ghosts of fullers in others, some are counted by kamis as fullers if more a hollow/forge grind to primary edge.....my gratitude to Dear Yangdu on this one is the very pronounced dishing of all three including last peak running along top of, and defining, the primary edge....

But i wanted for coolness factor and antiquey sorta look, but would probably take an unfullered blade for ultimate toughness every time......mainly, i guess, this just gave me that wide leaf blade look while not needing a hoist to lift it....

If the fullers are forged in (and i suspect they are on this sample what with spine widening above fuller), the blade depth increases at no weight gain....if ground in, a honkin' heavy blade is made lighter....either way, it gives a really deep blade of manageable weight....at cost of ultimate strength....as to why this would be an advantage, i have not a clue except perhaps increased shearing over raw chopping power....as with all things, a compromise designed around some purpose, what that purpose is or was i have not a clue....
 
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Great another khukuri I can't afford but really NEED
I've been checking out these exact blades by Thamer and they are of amazing quality
If only the Aussie dollar wasn't so bad. If only
(Insert dream here)
Nice pics and great knife
Thanks
 
There are several down under buyers here and i would think you folk could go in on an order....you would think there would be SOME saving involved in having 3-4 shipped over a single....but, of course, i am usually wrong about things, so no sense in trying to be different, now...
 
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