Don't know what to think about this.

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This is HI Cantina.

We all trust khukuris that have been made from leaf spring. (Go Recycling Go)

And then, I see [Active link deleted]THIS

A khukuri, in San MAi Steel. 600$

In description: "The Gurkha Kukris VG-1 San Mai III¨ blade will out-chop any factory or handmade knives"

Ouuuh, sounds like a challenge. I would like to see that.
 
At 17" and 22 ounces the ad says it is the heaviest khuk on the market. If I'm wrong about that, someone please correct me.

Oh Well. You know, in some circles, twinkies are considered the cake of Gods.


munk
 
If he sells even one, it can be attributed to the fact that there is a sucker born every minute. A Kraton Handle? how exotic :D
 
I would like to be given one as a gift, so when I break it I wouldn't feel bad about it then, but come on....$600!!!! It will brobably be about 350 on the secondary market....way still overpriced for CS.
 
"The Gurkha Kukris VG-1 San Mai III¨ blade will out-chop any factory or handmade knives"


nigga please...........................
 
What I think is, if I bought that thing for $600, I would never use it. The problem with that plan is that it isn't pretty enough to be a collecter, so what would be the point?

I have no doubt the similar sized HI khuks are more useful, and nicer looking to boot!

Andy
 
Anybody look for a soul in their cutlery?
 
Heaviest Khuk on the market at 22 oz.? Im pretty sure a 15" ak is 24ish and two inches shorter. You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, those are the ones you need to focus one.
 
The markup on that must be amazing it should cost about $125. Though it says out of stock so maybe that means they won't build one until someone buys it.

What happened to cold steel, this past year they seam to be going another direction and are turning people off.
 
$600 is the CS price. No one ever pays the advertised price on CS products. (At least, I hope no one does.) Street price will be considerably lower.

What? No one's interested in a stainless steel khukuri that will out chop anything out there? (The ad says that it will, it must be true...)

Mr. Thompson's antics aside, CS does sell some things worth owning and some things that no one else really sells; that being said, I generally tend to pass on stainless steel choppers that run a few C-notes. Someone else may feel differently about the whole thing.
 
I admit I have a CS knife. It's big and black and feels like a big, black, tacticalized piece of stock steel. It holds an edge fine and is a great beater but it has about the same soul as a piece of burnt toast. And mark my words--any HI I own (probably including the Kagas Katne) could utterly defeat in terms of strength. $600? Jeez.


Chris
 
YMMV, but as I own several older San-Mai CS products IMHO it was one of the best steels they made and sold (provided ofcourse it's the same Japanese made san-mai that I have in my older knives, which I highly doubt for the term "VG-1" appears to be a recent addition to their advertising).

Anyone know whether the current "VG-1 san-mai" is the same japanese made san-mai sold decades ago?
 
I don't say their steel (or peoducts) are not good. Some does, but as I never owned one, even holded one, I won't talk about it.

My point only was "Does a San Mai khukuri really performs better than one made with recycled leaf spring?"

I would really like to see the test. But unfortunately (or fortunately), I don't think anyone here is ready to pay 600$ for a khukri.

I still would like Cold Steel to prove that their San Mai khukuri is better than HI.

I decided to buy an HI khuk when I saw someone compare them to Cold Steel's LTC with the conclusion that they were better. (that and what I heard about the service)
 
I am pretty sure the next time I spend anything close to $600.00 on a weapon, it will be capable of firing a projectile.

Eric
 
I can pretty much guarantee that differentially hardened low alloy will outperform any stainless alloy in existance in a heavy chopping mode, in every sense of the term save for corrosion resistance. I can't actually guarantee that, but I can guarantee it. You dig?

In this case, laminated construction is an attempt to circumvent a problem that wouldn't have been there in the first place if the proper steel had been used. Someone will probably think it's worth having, but not me.
 
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