OK, I've admitted this before and I'll admit it again: the great fuss about new models and slight changes is silly. Physics are physics, Mares eat oats and Doe's eat Oats, and little Lambs eat Ivy. You can't get there from here; you can't reinvent the wheel.
But the darn thing is so neat. And it does Ring. When old hands like Yvsa get excited, you'd think I'd sit up and pay attention. I'll try it out, I'll pound some wood, we'll do a little stepping out.
I can tell you already it has magic in it. You've got your 24 oz- a weight reached by careful analysis of what weight was best for cutting in a hand held blade. 24 is at the bottom of the true choppers. I prefer 28 oz. Then there's the fullers- instead of the metal in the blade and the normal HI heavy duty thickness of 5/16 or 7/16's or even a half inch, the Foxy Folly is just a fat 1/4 inch in spine width. Those fullers add back the strength more metal would have normally provided, and gave you khuk nuts the beauty you all craved. It's a deep blade. I've always wondered about this shape type: does this impart any feature to the actual chopping that just a iron weight welded to the back of a slender edge would provide? I don't know, but once again it just looks good.
And the length- 17.5", is in the prime zone of leverage and reach for serious chopping AND what is still practical to carry in the field all day. The tang is normal khuk and I would not have wanted a chiruwa style because the extra weight would change the balance this one has. ANd no mistake, it has a special balance all it's own.
Will it outchop another 24 ouncer? I've got a BAS to put it against. Will it compare in chopping to a 18" AK? Don't know- if it did you'd have your cake and eat it too.
But it's a keeper. I can already see how much easier it will be to take along than even a slightly longer, heavier model.
Congratulations, all of you with the vision and little kid hopefulness to have signed up for the new improved Foxy Folly. You will not be disapointed in your perfect specimens as they arrive from Nepal.
edit; one more thing; Once upon a time I reviewed here another distributor's khukuri. It was about a 1/4" thick at the spine. Proponents of this blade said it was harder to make a thin blade than a thick one- like the thick HI blades.
I'd asked several Smiths about this at the time and the general answer was it was no harder to make a thinner blade than a thick one. I observed at the time this Other Blade had a lot more wavers and hammer depressions in it that does a typical HI blade. This was attributed by some to the theory- thin blades harder to make.
This Foxy Folly has two distinctly well formed fullers in it. They are magnificent, and all surface on the blade is wonderfully well formed and smooth, almost as if poured from the Smith's hands.
HI Kamis make damn good blades thick thin and inbetween.
munk
But the darn thing is so neat. And it does Ring. When old hands like Yvsa get excited, you'd think I'd sit up and pay attention. I'll try it out, I'll pound some wood, we'll do a little stepping out.
I can tell you already it has magic in it. You've got your 24 oz- a weight reached by careful analysis of what weight was best for cutting in a hand held blade. 24 is at the bottom of the true choppers. I prefer 28 oz. Then there's the fullers- instead of the metal in the blade and the normal HI heavy duty thickness of 5/16 or 7/16's or even a half inch, the Foxy Folly is just a fat 1/4 inch in spine width. Those fullers add back the strength more metal would have normally provided, and gave you khuk nuts the beauty you all craved. It's a deep blade. I've always wondered about this shape type: does this impart any feature to the actual chopping that just a iron weight welded to the back of a slender edge would provide? I don't know, but once again it just looks good.
And the length- 17.5", is in the prime zone of leverage and reach for serious chopping AND what is still practical to carry in the field all day. The tang is normal khuk and I would not have wanted a chiruwa style because the extra weight would change the balance this one has. ANd no mistake, it has a special balance all it's own.
Will it outchop another 24 ouncer? I've got a BAS to put it against. Will it compare in chopping to a 18" AK? Don't know- if it did you'd have your cake and eat it too.
But it's a keeper. I can already see how much easier it will be to take along than even a slightly longer, heavier model.
Congratulations, all of you with the vision and little kid hopefulness to have signed up for the new improved Foxy Folly. You will not be disapointed in your perfect specimens as they arrive from Nepal.
edit; one more thing; Once upon a time I reviewed here another distributor's khukuri. It was about a 1/4" thick at the spine. Proponents of this blade said it was harder to make a thin blade than a thick one- like the thick HI blades.
I'd asked several Smiths about this at the time and the general answer was it was no harder to make a thinner blade than a thick one. I observed at the time this Other Blade had a lot more wavers and hammer depressions in it that does a typical HI blade. This was attributed by some to the theory- thin blades harder to make.
This Foxy Folly has two distinctly well formed fullers in it. They are magnificent, and all surface on the blade is wonderfully well formed and smooth, almost as if poured from the Smith's hands.
HI Kamis make damn good blades thick thin and inbetween.
munk
