do people get all sweaty and freak out when you show them your khukuris?

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cognitivefun

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Just wondered...do they think less of you ...? Or that you are a complete nutcase?

I am in fact a complete nutcase so it isn't an issue for me :D
 
Most people I know like mine. "Cool! Ghurka knives!" is the most common response. The rest usually make some quip about sacraficing my goats with it.
 
I have only shown them to camping and knife folks. They think they're very cool. No, I wouldn't take one to the office and show all and sundry.
 
yea most people think i'm a little crazy when they see my knives--but beauty is in the eyes of the beholder--some sorta freak out some are interested--but i feel they can like them or not i don't care--I DO :eek: :) :eek:
 
Most look at you and think you were nuts to spend the money.
A few wonder if they missed the signs of incipient psychosis.

Now, if you're Dan, they understand because you make knives- for money. Money brings reason.
If you are a professor type, perhaps a Powell or Wallace, and have khuks displayed with identifying tags on the wall or behind glass- that's OK, it's now under the umbrella called 'culture and knowledge stuff', and besides, they're worth Money.

But if you're just a guy with a couple kids, or living alone, explaining the khukuris is mostly pointless. When You're done talking they'll cut a little slack for you, while they're thinking. "yeah yeah, Ok, I see, but how come you own 20 when one or two was all you needed?" And they have you.



munk
 
Josh Feltman said:
Everyone I've showed them to has liked them, or else been scared to say otherwise to my face, lol.
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It was probably the fact that your face was suffused with a soft green glow. :p

(A soft red glow would just make them run screaming from the room.)
 
My very few khuks are the best conversation pieces in my collection, people react differently...most kinda give a nervous smile and say "oh my...how very nice..." Some are pretty interested in them, and the more pragmatic minded folks kinda grunt and debate thier worthiness over a machete or an axe.

There was this one time though...I used to keep my 18 inch Sirupati in my range bag for cutting shooting lanes, building a fire, etc.

So I'd gone shooting with a co-worker. Had an okay time...Truth was I was trying like hell to get along with the guy and having little success. I'm big, easy going and down to earth, and he was small, high strung, and liked to show his ass... we were forced to work together-he really tended to test the limits of my normally calm temper, but...I digress...

So after shooting we're cleaning guns and talking a little bit, so there were AK-47's, AR-15's, SKS, short barreled shotguns, FN-FAL's, and a dozen other politically incorrect firearms scattered around the room. He and I were even having conversations that one wouldn't want to have with thier friendly neighborhood ATF officer.

And then I went to dig something out of my bag, which happened to be beneath my Sirupati. Good Lord, you coulda heard a pin drop when I pulled that thing out of the bag! His wife literally gasped, his eyes got big as saucers, and the immediate comments became "what are you going to do with a knife that big? That's not a brush cutter! that things vicious! you don't need a knife like that! etc. etc." there was NO AMOUNT of explaining that was gonna satisfy them! I left shortly thereafter (quite glad to show myself to the door, actually)

And the grand irony of it all? a couple months later the a$$hole tried to pull a pistol on me. :mad: (turned out my first instincts about the guy were correct)
 
Wow. Good story, thanks. I hope everything is OK with you and he is not a danger.




munk
 
I've shown some of my khukuris to a few people over the years. Most are impressed by the size of them, and a few (mountain man era reenactors) recognized what they were.

Bob
 
cognitivefun said:
do people get all sweaty and freak out when you show them your khukuris?
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I have people react like that all of the time. It did take me a little while to figure out it was not the Khukuris that was doing it... ;) :p
 
Most reactions I've gotten have been positive. I've even won over a pair of 'konverts'. :rolleyes: Those are my shooting buddies here in Georgia. I have gotten a few wide-eyed looks from some of my family's more timid friends, but most of them are used to a certain degree of oddity from us anyway (well, mostly from me). :D
 
I don't know how freaked out my neighbors got, but they had to hear the nearly nightly unmistakable sound of a large piece of metal running down a butcher's steel through our paper-thin walls. Could you imagine not being a knife nut lying in bed only to hear the long slow drag of something approx. 15" long running down a butcher's steel:)? Who cares. They left me alone. Besides, Xspecz, the martian that lives in the cavity of my back left molar told me I didn't need them anyway.

jake
 
I was hosting a block watch party a couple of years ago. That's where all the neighbors get together, have some crime prevention talk, eat hot dogs, etc. I got to meet some new neighbors I had not met before too. It seems I had developed a "special" reputation by being observed sharpening large khukuris in my living room. In the evening darkness I never noticed the passer-bys on the sidewalk, but they had a good view of me from their side of the windows. I guess they made a habit of walking fast past my house.

We had a good chuckle about it at the party.
 
Howard, it seems that I've got a "special" reputation too!:D But mine is at work, where I have my khuks shipped. That's because at my apartment, I can only get packages no bigger than a regular size hardback book. But anyway, when I recieve a khuk, there, it immediatly got the "Test". We have always got 4X4's and old oak pallets there. Clock out, and spend my lunch time "testing". Of the 8 people I work with, only one would ask if he could join in. The rest would stay inside and watch, wide eyed, thru the window. And the boss made me lock them in the truck afterward.:D :D
 
munk said:
But if you're just a guy with a couple kids, or living alone, explaining the khukuris is mostly pointless.
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Khukuris? Pointless? :D

When You're done talking they'll cut a little slack for you, while they're thinking. "yeah yeah, Ok, I see, but how come you own 20 when one or two was all you needed?" And they have you.
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Ahhh, need vs. want. If need meant anything we'd all live in cardboard boxes, wouldn't we?
 
Ahhh, need vs. want. If need meant anything we'd all live in cardboard boxes, wouldn't we?>>>>>>>>

You mean after selling all earthly possessions to buy more khukuris?



munk
 
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