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Well... I been MIA for a while, but came back to share a little story.

Me wifey was having trouble chopping through some pig leg bone with her meat cleaver.
That thing is such a piece of junk. The steel on it keep rolling so I have to keep reprofiling the edge on it.

So I asked her... "want me to get my khukuri?"
Wifey..."No, that's ok."
She's still having trouble.
Me..."You sure you don't want me to get my khukuri?"
Wifey..."It won't help."
So I go get my khukuri anyway. She sees me with my HI - M43.
Wifey..."Ok sir, since you insist."
Mom..."What are you doing with that lethal weapon?"
Wifey..."He wants to try out his big knife, b/c he doesn't get to use it on anything."
Mom..."Well be careful. You can easily chop off a finger with that."

CHOP... Khukuri cuts clean through the meat & bone in one chop.

Me..."OH SNAP! Check that out. Now that's a knife!"

Wifey then proceeds to instruct me where to make all the other cuts & I chop it all up, easily with my M-43. :D
Wifey..."Thank you hubby, clean up & put your big bad blade away."

So as I clean my khukuri... & despite my enormous, exceedingly high level of caution... my hand discovers the blade is still razor sharp. :rolleyes:

Puts on band aid.
 
Meat is meat to a blade but I think it still loves you just the same.
 
That should prove to the wife that a "big, bad, blade" can be useful! Tell her you need a few more!
 
Great story, and definitely hits home. If I had a nickel for every time I found myself saying to someone, "Are you sure you don't want me to grab a khukuri? Ok, I'm just gonna grab a khukuri." I'd surely have enough for another KLVUK or 2 :)
 
Be careful, khuks will start to multiply as perceived specialization increases;)

I have FIVE in my kindling box next to the fireplace:D
 
Good to see you again Turok, And excellent that the M-43 made such a believer of the spouse. As for the "love bite" it gave you afterwards. It was just telling you it misses you too :D
 
Had a similar story last night with my HI Seax - I had barbeque'd up a pork butt and vacuum sealed the leftovers. They'd been sitting in the freezer for awhile so by now it was a brick of condensed frozen pork.

Yesterday afternoon I hear some banging in the kitchen and decide to check it out. The wife's trying to baton through the frozen pork brick with a kitchen knife. I reach for the seax, tell her to stand aside, and with one stroke I slice the brick in half like a samurai! I was more impressed with myself than she was, but I could tell she was at least a little bit impressed.
 
blue lander said:
Had a similar story last night with my HI Seax - I had barbeque'd up a pork butt and vacuum sealed the leftovers. They'd been sitting in the freezer for awhile so by now it was a brick of condensed frozen pork.

Yesterday afternoon I hear some banging in the kitchen and decide to check it out. The wife's trying to baton through the frozen pork brick with a kitchen knife. I reach for the seax, tell her to stand aside, and with one stroke I slice the brick in half like a samurai! I was more impressed with myself than she was, but I could tell she was at least a little bit impressed.
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This is a golden opportunity to infect her (HIKV ) with a big chopper.
 
She's a big fan of the jkm1 for stuff like slicing hard stuff like cheese or meats but for everything else she uses a Chinese cleaver or an old hickory pairing knife. I'd love to get her off that ugly Chinese stainless steel cleaver but it'd have to be something with a really thin blade. Not really HI's forte.

I'm going to get her a Thai cleaver. I can live with having his in my kitchen
 

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Just stay out of arms reach on bad days and you should be fine. Fine looking cleaver but would definitely leave a mark if she was to use it on ya over the frying pan. That's the nice thing about these new super light teflon coated fry pans, don't hurt near as bad as them heavy ole cast iron skillets, those leave a mark too.
 
Shavru said:
Good to see you again Turok, And excellent that the M-43 made such a believer of the spouse. As for the "love bite" it gave you afterwards. It was just telling you it misses you too :D
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Yeah she got pretty excited after I made that 1st chop. It cut so clean through 1" bone, with zero edge damage.
That was also the 1st time I cut myself on the khuk. I almost never cut myself with blades, but I always seem to cut myself on every new knife/sword I've ever owned at least once. Usually within the 1st year of ownership.
 
My most risky period is opening triangle boxes. I'm so durned anxious to hold what's inside that caution sometimes goes away with the wind. I seldom get myself but now and then stuff happens.
 
I do always. Unless of course its likely to arrive on a Saturday, who wants to wait till Monday you know.

Auntie often times thinks of that for me too. She's good, really good.
 
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