Comming soon: The Himalayan Prince by Terisa

More "cow bell":p I put a honking pommel on the one I am working on and it is seriously comfortable. I'm not saying go prayer wheel with it but if it is going to be a formal dress knife the bigger pommel helps make that statement.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. Aunt and I will make some changes to the khukuri. We might even make two of them. One big and one small. Baja suggested one 15'' and one 18''. Anyway Im returning to NewYork tommorow. Its was nice meeting everyone. We are going to send the design to Nepal and put the kami's to work on the Himalayan Prince. The reason I called it the Himalayan Prince is because the zig zags on the middle of the blade looks like mountains. The patterns/carving are designed to go along with the mountains and carvings on the wood from nepali photo frames. And I will make a design for the leather cover of the khukuri(scabbard). I am also going to change the botttom of the handle into the "bell bottom' which most of you requested. The letters above U.B is terisa written in Nepali.
 
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Thanks for your design work Terisa. I look forward to Yangdu announcing the arrival of The Prince and seeing what the kamis come up with. Have a safe trip back to NY and take good care of your baja. Hope we hear from you soon.
 
Dear Yangdu Didi,

I checked this Terisa design Himalayan Prince knife and comments from furumites about it size.
I think that specially our new kami Rajkumar will do this job, because he has very familiar about these type of carving work.
I will also collect some idea about its shape and sizes from new kamis too.

Thank you,
Rajesh


RajKumar is a new talanted Kami who recently join the young Sher group.
He made a RajKumar Knife:thumbup: which I will post on the forum soon.
Stay tuned
 
Thank you all for the suggestions,
New Kami Rajkumar will make the Himalayan Prince Knife
 
What blade shape will this knife have? Will it be the one pictured? The one in the picture looks a little more work oriented than I would expect a Prince to carry. My favorite shape is the one from the BAS but for a Princes kurkri I think one of the more lighter duty blade styles would be better suited. What styles have royalty in Nepal traditionally adopted?
 
The Kothimoda and its ilk are the stereotypical "Rich man's khukuri," but the site has some pictures of early gurkha leaders and what they carried in battle... which were much plainer.
As an exercise, I'm about to try to sketch out a model of this thing, on paper and on the new CAD program I'm learning. I'll let you what I come up with...
 
Karda said:
That Looks like a very handsome khukuri.....made for a Himalayan Prince.
I like it and can't wait to see what it looks like when made.
My only suggestion would be to make it a bit smaller...as a palace or dress khukuri.
When you start getting 17 + inches and above, the khukuri tend to look and feel somewhat monstrous in proportion. To my eye and hands a 12-15 inch khukuri is quite nice proportionately and very wieldy.That is just my opinion and my personal size preference.
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I have to agree with this, & I am glad to see some props for "smaller" blade khukuri being given by different folks in this thread.
Keep up the creative, good work Therisa:thumbup:
 
Yow! Gorgeous. I'd love to see the finished product. My next khukri, unless a Tamang comes along, will probably be a special order for a "Yeti-ized" Salyan, with YETI engraved on the blade. I love the story behind the Yeti Hunter, but that Salyan with the white horn handles and engraved brass and beautiful engraving on the blade, to me, screams "Prince of the snow". I think you could apply this fit and finish to many of your designs, and looking at some of the older photo threads, these more ornate designs seemed to be more commonplace back then. I understand with the influx of all the new Kamis why most of what we see are back to the basics, but the newer more decorative pieces appear in the photos to be exceptionally well done. Hopefully we see more of them!
 
Hi All,

I think what would really knock this baby out of the ballpark is adding an hamon. I'm sure the kami's know how to do a clay backed blade. Of course, they would need to do it in 1095 steel rather than their traditional 5160. Just a thought.

Regards,

Dave
 
Isn't the centuries old tradition of water cooling without clay; just the Kamis experience; one of the reasons we treasure HI khuks?
 
heinlein said:
Isn't the centuries old tradition of water cooling without clay; just the Kamis experience; one of the reasons we treasure HI khuks?
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Word. Why does it seem that everybody all of a sudden wants to change what HI is and does? I mean suggestions and new designs are well & good & bless Yangdu & Co. for considering them. But can we at least agree to have them continue in their own cultural fashion? HI isn't Busse or ESEE or Tozando or whoever. They are unique and rightous on their own merits. Its okay to talk different sizes or weights or whatever, but it damn sure seems that there are a lot chefs in the kitchen these days.

Terisa, you do your culture honor with this project. You more than most know how it shoud be and IMHO your best advice comes from Reno or Bir Ghorka.
My 2 cents spent.
 
Hello Terisa, Excellent that you have taken the strong interest in HI and your design, made better just by your listening to the forum, I also like the belled pommel,hehe. Have a nice trip back to NY and write in soon so we know you are enjoying life, take care, Dave.:)

Seem's to be lot's of cooks running thru the kitchen, each adding a little Spice to the HI substance, I can Not find a thing wrong with it so far, it is the same as doing custom work in multiples and it's always nice to see something different now and then.:thumbup:
 
The Kami's already think we are nuts for wanting high fit and finish and mirror polishing. They consider these things tools and wonder why we want these things if we intend to use them and scratch/ding them all up. Considering that their primary steel is 5160, the fact that you just can't get a good hamon to show on 5160 steel without etchant and the fact that it will add more intensive labor and probably a higher price because of that labor, i don't think the idea of producing hamons on these khukuri is going to work.
 
Terisa,

Keep doing your thang.

The Himalayan Prince should remain the way you think it should be.:thumbup:
 
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