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Chopper time!

KiljoyKutlery

KILJOY KutLery, hand made in Luling Texas
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Time for another awesome installment of CHOPPER TIME, post your choppers here...for all others to drool over!:thumbup:
As many of you know..I have a special place in my heart for the AXE, but recently..I have found a place for the KUKRI....man o man, I like the KUKs.
Sooo...I will just collect them both, and machete's and bowies to...my o my.
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Need to get Normark to post. He has one heckuva collection.

Here are some of mine...

Many of these were purty when I took this shot, but nearly all are well-used now...

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A few more...

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Time for another awesome installment of CHOPPER TIME, post your choppers here...for all others to drool over!:thumbup:
As many of you know..I have a special place in my heart for the AXE, but recently..I have found a place for the KUKRI....man o man, I like the KUKs.
Sooo...I will just collect them both, and machete's and bowies to...my o my.
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Hey gunknifenut, which Khukuri is that?



Boy, those HI's make that Busse look like a pocket knife.

Doc
 
Choppers? How about a small chopper - Spyderco Forester N690Co recurve full flat grind with convex edge, held up well against a wattle tree (Acacia sp, an Australian hard wood) :thumbup:

The offending tree, dead standing wood near a farm house, posed a fire risk:
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Starting off:
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Timber:
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Still shaving (just) and no obvious chipping:
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I do have a chainsaw but where is the fun in that? :D
 
WOW..some nice stuff out there...I say we are close to 500 lbs of steel so far, I would like to see us get over a TON of steel. I bet we have that much collectively....just saying:D

Doc, which Kukri are you asking about?
In the pic, left to right: Condor Kukri Machete, ColdSTeel Kukri(carbonV), 21" CAK, 18" WWII, 17.5" CAK, 15" CAK and BONEcutter
 
Geez. Nobody on this forum owns a Bow Legged Chopper???

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Whopper Choppper Engraved

1.3 mil layers of tamahagane steel.

hand polished on japanese water stones, hand heat treated

This be me favorite

about 13.X " long or short which ever way you like.

6mm thick. mo-say-ick pins
 

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