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- Oct 12, 2006
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Well today I came home from school and saw a triangular box on the step. I'm like oooo my kurk came and I went up to my room to open it. I tore through the tape and packaging and took it out. I was impressed, this thing was a beast. It was a 15in ang khola that I got on Yangdu's DOTD. It was really thick and had only a minor flaw or the handle and sheath nothing that would change it's preformance. The karda and charka seemed nice too, but the main blade and the little blade were both pretty dull. The sheath was nice and sturdy and everything fit nice and snug. So I take out my Spyderco Sharpmaker and head downstairs to sharpen them on the counter. I put a edge on it that wasn't the best but I was anxious to go out and play with my new toy! So I walk outside towards this little sections of woods and unsheath my kurk. I'm pretty excited and I take a swing at prolly a 2 inch sapling maybe a little bigger. I just kind of hit it sideways so it didn't cut through it. Then I try to cut more of a diagonal way and it takes a couple hits to get through. I then moved on to something smaller maybe a inch and I took it through with one sweep. Then I went onto something 3-4 inches with a harder wood then the other stuff I was cutting. It probably took me a minute or so to get through it. Then I went over to a smallish tree I felled a few weeks ago but never got to dragging it out. I deceided I would cut it into peices. It was to big to drag and it was against some other trees and brush. I started hacking away at it and it took maybe a few minutes to cut a section. I cut a few and headed back to my house. The tree was maybe 4-5 inches by the way. I took out my kurk again and started to chop the large peices of the tree. This took longer then it took when it was leaning up for me. It wasn't cutting super fast or anything so I deciedes I would try my wetterlings small hunter against it. I brought them both out and did some chopping. The wetterlings cut better then the kurk did and it was easier to cut when it was just lying on the floor. I went back inside and looked at the two tools. I thought hmmmm I really want to make this Ang Khola work. So I took out the sharpmaker and probably spent a good 20-30 minutes sharpening it and then testing it. I was just using the gray triangle side as the flat side was harder to use with the kurk. I got the part closer to the handle able to cut paper and then I tried the tip. I was a bit disapointed with my results, the part closer to the handle cut with more effort then I would have like the the tip just seemed to kinda drag/rip it's way across. I walked downstairs again and out to the garage and took out a peice of wood. I didn't get to test it against the small hatchet as it was getting dark but I did use the kurk a bit. The results did not alter much from the last use. I know the tipish part where the blade becomes wide is supposed to be cutting and my part of that is duller and I can't really get it sharp. I took it back in to try and cut paper again and then I took out a 12 dollar mora I sharpened myself and even though I sharpened it to a much finer setting it still was SO much easier to cut paper with. It didn't even need you to help it cut much it just sliced right through. It's not really a fair comparison since it has a 10 degress more acute angle and it's sharpened with all the rods. I was pretty disapointed with how the kurk was working for me and I figured I'd post here to get any advice. I really want this to work for me but it just isn't. I can't do freehand sharpening either so I have the sharpmaker and that's about it. Any advice would be very helpful.
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enjoy your ang khola 
