First time chopping, First HI, lots of pics

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Got my first HI khukri, A DOTD villager finish WWII.
Got it shaving sharp in just a few minutes, polished up the handle and "white metal" hardware. Looked good before, looks better now.

Some pics of it.
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Is this supposed to be a beer mug? Young Sher Kami marking.
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Handle, post sanding, in good light.
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Lot of dark and black grain activity hidden in there.
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Whacked a few trees that were populating my shooting area.
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And since I brought some friends, a group photo. small part of my fixed blades.
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Congratulations on the new addition. Doesn't look like the chopping bothered it one bit seeing relaxing with it's "little" friends. Good khuk times to you.

Good pix, too. Thanks. Now, which one is next on the list?

Rick
 
stickfred said:
Now, which one is next on the list?
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Missed a 12" boncutter on DOTD. So that, or a bigger bone cutter. Or a foxy folly, or a chitlangi....
So many good ones. Can't decide one What next. Guess it will be whatever pop up in DOTD when I have cash.

Chopping does not bother the edge at all, chopped a few small trees into the ground. Past the dirt and the edge was still grabby, near shaving sharp. Really good heat treat on it.
 
Keep your eyes open, there may be some bonecutters available. A call to Yangdu may be in order.

Rick
 
Interesting... maybe it's just young Sher, but seems like I've seem more of these pointier WWII's around. Nice!
 
Yangdu said more shorter bonecutters on the way. Asked when I ordered this.

And I really like the point on this thing, it has a nice taper, so it's light (24oz) has a good piercing point, but still chops halfway through standing 3" thick trees.

It's the heat treat on this that amazes me, never had anything dig into dirt and still be near shaving sharp. But this cut trees down to 1~2 inches into the ground (no stubs here) and would still cut cardboard and almost slice paper. A great blade, for cheap.
 
EDCguy said:
You say you got it shaving sharp in minutes? How did you do this?
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It was near shaving sharp when I got it. I used a ceramic rod ( kitchen steel, but ceramic) then some 2000 grit sandpaper, and a chunk of leather to strop.
I have been sharpening for years..... so it's like asking a race car driver how he goes around corners so fast.
If you have machetes, those are good practice.

And I joined bladeforums and got interested in HI too late to ever know Uncle Bill. Read a lot of the info about the business on the website though, seems like a great guy. It's good Yangdu is around to keep things going. 2 HI khuks already (yeah bought another) and don't see me stopping anytime soon.
 
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