First impressions of the Sher Movie Model

Steely_Gunz

Steely_Gunz

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Sorry, no pics yet. Will try to take some soon once I find out where the camera gnome stashed my dig cam again.
Well the 20" 30oz Sher Movie Model was just delivered by the postman to my office. Really, I'm just expanding on what Norm had said about his Sher Model a couple of weeks back, but after messing with it for a time I really can't consider this a "movie model" other than the clipped blade. More on that later.

Picking up the box, "Whoa, this thing feels like a brick". After the typical clawing and tearing of box and tape I picked up the sheathed blade. "Jeeze, still feels heavy." THEN, once I pulled it out of the scabbard I swear the thing dropped a pound in weight. I picked up the scabbard to see if was indeed made out of plutonium like I had expected. Nope. Standard weight and construction.

Sher did a heck of a job making a nearly 2lb blade feel like a 20" 20oz Kobra.
I think I figured out why the handles are so fat on these Sher models. The fat neem wood counterweights the blade very well.

As near as I can figure, the blade balances about 3.5" out from the cho. It doesn't FEEL choppy to me, but a few good solid whacks into a 2X12 shows that even unsharpened this thing bites deep. The spine width is a little over 3/8" by eyeball. Really, it looks a lot like Norm's model. I'll post a link to the post once the seach function is up again.
To me, this blade looks and feels more like a counterweighted clip pointed WWII than something that would be considered sword-like. Almost like WWII and an UBE got together for a night of fun and out came the Sher Movie Model.

Sher really outdid himself overall. This is a 20" khuk that feels like a light 18" in the hand, but still hits like a ton of bricks. I'm supposed to go clear some dead wood out of some property that my mother and her fiance' just bought sometime this fall/winter. I'll probably take this blade along instead of my GRS just for fun. Also, I think this would be a good anti-zombie blade. It's quick enough to swing, offers a backcut option, yet has good cleaving properties.
Really, I think this blade needs a different name. It looks pretty far removed from the sweeping style of Bura's Movie Model.

Jake
 
Thought of the Movie Model this week when watching

The Mummy Returns...fun movie. Rent and watch The Mummy first, then this one. Brandon somebody in it.

Sad, really, that H.I. causes one to pause a movie to see the blades used instead of...er...nevermind.


(Edit: Part of an Amazon review:We meet Rick O'Connoll (Brendan Fraser) in the first film when he is deserted by his legionnaire cronies and finds himself left in the ancient city of Hamunaptra with a mummy waiting to awake. He meets Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and her brother (John Hannah) who rescue him from a hanging as they are in search of the city of the dead. It all goes wrong when in exploring Evee reads from the book of the dead and awakes the Mummy (Arnold Vosloo) who is ready to resurrect his dead love Anuk Sun Amun (Patricia Velasquez) and is reluctant to have anyone stand in their way.

The first film is essentially and action film however it can be enjoyed on a number of levels through the comedy, horror and romantic interludes that director Stephen Sommers ties in to the film. It's great to see such a classic horror character of the Mummy resurrected in a new film and it works so well.

'The Mummy Returns' is exactly that. The Mummy, Prince Ihmotep is resurrected again to hunt and kill The Scorpion King (The Rock) legend says that whoever kills the scorpion king will get to command the armies of the underworld... and therefore take over the world. The film is set 10 years after the first film with Evee and Rick having a young son Alex, who mistakenly puts on the bracelet of anubis which will not only lead him to the scorpion king, but also kill him after one week. This means Rick is faced with a race against time when Alex is kidnapped.

'The Mummy returns' has all the charm of the first film and then some. The action is intensified as is the comedic moments, which makes 'The Mummy Returns' such a fabulous film. Although the film is a sequel it works on its own as well, which allows the audience to engage the 2 films at any times. The only specific difference between the two titles is the first 'Mummy' seems to have more or a 'continuous watchability' it always seems I reach for my 'Mummy: Ultimate Edition' before my 'Mummy Returns' but nevertheless the films are great.)
 
Hmm. Sounds different from my Movie Model, Jake. Mine's light & fast, with a really comfy horn handle. Bura. I like it a lot.

Good ZCA (Zombie Chopping Ability) and very sword-like. Has the little gear doohicky, sorry, keeper on butt.

Don't have a scale, but I do have an online pic:

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It isn't a shelf queen.... I just haven't cut anything with it. Was more $$$ than yours. It's time just hasn't yet come to be used. Heck, I have a bunch of khukuris and no trees on my property...


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The recent Movie Models seem different than older ones. Do they have less of an upturned angle to the tip?




munk
 
munk said:
The recent Movie Models seem different than older ones. Do they have less of an upturned angle to the tip?
munk
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They do have less of an upturned tip than the Bura models. It's very very slight, if at all. It really is more of false edge or clip point. I guess it COULD be sharpened, but I think Sher's grand design was for deep penetration, not back cuts.
It kind of reminds me what Mike did to his WWII, but all the way back to the bend.

Jake
 
As stated before, they look a little more kukri like than sword like. What's the longest movie model made to date? Anyone know? I would think you'd want about 25 inches or so, to make it more sword like. Although the description says he got the inspiration from the movie, not that he was trying to copy the swords used. Personally, I'd prefer more of a sword.


mike
 
Ad Astra said:
It isn't a shelf queen.... I just haven't cut anything with it. Was more $$$ than yours. It's time just hasn't yet come to be used. Heck, I have a bunch of khukuris and no trees on my property...
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That's pretty much the case with me and my MM. I've got three other khuks that are about the same size as my movie model but heavier. I'm waiting until I need a machete substitute to break out the MM.

Bob
 
Hey, Jake-

Here's a quick pic of my 20" Villager from that same day's DOTD's. Thanks, Yangdu!

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"20 inch 31 ounce villager by Sher. Satisal wood handle. Only thing wrong with is small scabbard imperfection which is cosmetic only. Halloween special."

The imperfection was a scratch on the scabbard. No biggie.

It's shown with a 20" AK and a Kumar Karda for scale.

This is the biggest villager I've seen, and it's a pointy SOB. Well-finished, nice deep 3-line Sword of Shiva.

10/26 DOTD:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=370217

I am *done* sharking, I swear. I was just home sick that day.... :rolleyes: :foot: Glad I sent for this one, though. It will get used.


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So YOU'RE the one that got that 20" villager I had been dreaming about for over a year;).
No biggie. we both made out like bandits that day. I'm very happy with my Sher whatever. I'm glad that villager went to a good home:)

Jake
 
Ad Astra said:
Hey, Jake-

Here's a quick pic of my 20" Villager from that same day's DOTD's. Thanks, Yangdu!

20ins0de.jpg


"20 inch 31 ounce villager by Sher. Satisal wood handle. Only thing wrong with is small scabbard imperfection which is cosmetic only. Halloween special."

The imperfection was a scratch on the scabbard. No biggie.

It's shown with a 20" AK and a Kumar Karda for scale.

This is the biggest villager I've seen, and it's a pointy SOB. Well-finished, nice deep 3-line Sword of Shiva.

10/26 DOTD:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=370217

I am *done* sharking, I swear. I was just home sick that day.... :rolleyes: :foot: Glad I sent for this one, though. It will get used.Ad Astra
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Mike, that's a great knife! I know because I was fortunate enough to get a twin of that one a few months ago by Sher, 20" and 2 pounds exactly, by Sher, with a rough finished hill walnut handle. I can tell that it has some nice grain in it, and can't wait to sand it out and find it. Just about 20 other knives to work on first...! Has the same sword of shiva.

The first one of these that came out was abit smaller, and Yangdu called it a "Vogpuri Village Special", so that's what I called mine.

Very much similar to the the Samsher models, but has a personality all it's own.

Norm
 
You just gotta, gotta, love those villager khukuris!!!! Somehow they convey something that the HI top of the line khukuris just can't attain and yet the top of the line khukuris have an appeal all their own.:thumbup: :D
Kinda hard to explain the difference between the two really as both are made to work and use against things that go bump in the night.
I'm thinking maye the reason they appeal so much to me is that they just aren't as finished and polished so are closer to the forge from whence they sprang.
I also like the fact that the handles are nice and clean and honest instead of full of that damned rouge the kamis use for polishing. You get a little oil on that sh*t and it's just like Prussian Blue, get in on you and it gets every damned place you can imagine and some you can't!:thumbdn: :eek:
I love the villagers!!!! And I would dearly love to adopt a couple like Nasty and Rio Jim have with the hammer marks and carbon from the forge still on the blade.
Like Nasty said, "A good honest blade.":thumbup: :D :cool:
 
Thanks, you guys. It's probably my last one. :grumpy:

But I love the villagers. And I know Bill did too. I hate brass, and the mirror finish is ruined with one whack.

This sucker will get used, unlike a couple brightly polished ones. Norm, thanks for info. And Yvsa, this one has a charming hammer whack that's too deep. That gives it character. It's well-built, and thats what matters.

I like the big khuks. Well, I like all of them. :p But villager+big=good.

Better pix another day.

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