Design your own unique khukuri!

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If one day Uncle Bill contacted you to design a unique khukuri, what would you come up with? Give your reasons for any unique features.

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Harry

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I am doing just that right now. Here are my design points :

1: A blade inbetween kobra and sirupati
in thickness.I want it light enough
for defensive use, but strong enough
for camp duty.

2: A D-gaurd handle . In defensive use,
you might have to parry a bat ,blade
or other weapon . If the parry is
successful you just might be disarmed
yourself if the object runs down the
blade and accross your hand. In camp
use , swingind in brush you dont want
to rapp your knuckles and letgo of
the blade.

I am putting together a wooden model that
I think should work resl nice. Should be ready by july 4th .
 
I was actually thinking the same thing, but from a different angle. What I would like to see is a slender blade, like a sirupati in profile (or maybe a little narrower) with the thickness of a sirupati, but deeply fullered like the Gelbu special, making it light like the kobra. The blade would have to be fullered it's entire length to give it the right weight and balance, but I think it would be a fast, well-balanced and very strong blade. It would also be absolutely beautiful!
 
What about a forward-curving sirupati?

Imagine a Kobra with a spine that follows a constant gentle curve, like a steel banana. Blade 21", OAL 30", maximum blade width (at 5" from bolster) 1.375"; maximum thickness at spine 0.300"; full-tang, weight around 2.5lb; centre of balance 5" from the bolster, center of percussion 6" in from the tip. A Kobra you could chop down giant redwoods with.

By a strange coincidence I have a drawing, and 20lb of 5160 24" X 2" X 1/4" stock arrived from Admiral Steel in Illinois this very morning (UK customs charged me twice the cost of the steel in VAT and 'handling charges'; let's hear it for State piracy)

I feel a prototype coming on.
 
How about a dui chirra blade, like HI's Kothmoda, only with a "working man's" handle.
About the same size as a 17" WWII. Wooden handle with brass furniture (flat plate buttcap) would be my choice. And of course an unadorned scabbard. I think this could be done (we know Bura can make the blades), and would sell.

--Mike L.

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Thanx Kozak for nice thread. It reminds me HI is rather a custom maker than a "factory" maker though Birgorkha has been struggling to become a "factory".

I'd design an HI throwing star ... a khukuriken with five blades. no handle needed.
And the size is ... size is... I give up this idea!



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Hi All,
I don't need a new design. I sent Bill a pic of one of the sweetest blade shapes I've ever seen. I hope he can post the picture.
Dan

That's assuming Bill got them. I've had no end of trouble with the mail.
 
... a slender blade, like a sirupati in profile (or maybe a little narrower) with the thickness of a sirupati, but deeply fullered like the Gelbu special, making it light like the kobra. The blade would have to be fullered it's entire length to give it the right weight and balance ...
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TomF.

Basically I like your idea with a slight enhancement using a combination of 3 models: Sirupati + Gelbu Special + Hanuman - meaning:
  • ... the length & shape of 20" Sirupati ...
  • ... with the 1st half length of the blade (frontal part) being fullered like Gelbu Special ...
  • ... and the 2nd half length of the blade having a sort of dui chira spines & a blood groove like Hanuman!

NEPAL HO!

[This message has been edited by mohd (edited 06-09-2000).]
 
I've got the blade roughed out, and it looks like a gelbu especiale . I'm working on the D-gaurd right now . It might be through sooner than july , it has a life of it's own like it's creating itself.
 
I still spend ten minutes or more every day holding and stroking that multiple blem sanu forward curving, listening to it sing for the file as it tells me how and where take off what doesn't belong. Once it is happy with the blade, we will move on to the bolster and buttcap and handle, and finallly polishing. It is much happier already.

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