Grip Pictures

[verax]

Ok, I would like to see pictures of how everyone holds thier khuks for regular use. (if you want to post pics of certain grips for chopping vs. slashing, more power to you!)

I have a hard time following the descriptions people are giving of how thier hand is fitting on thier handle.

I'll post mine when I get home tonight and can take a pic, but thought I would throw it out to people and get some feedback if people had pics laying around.

I'm still getting used to the ring, but I think in the long run I'll like it. I just need to sand some rough spots down. (metal on the Chiruwa is digging a little)

So if anyone wants to share, it would be greatly appreciated! =)

Thanks!

Verax

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[donutsrule]

Check out the grips in the pics at the top of this thread, and Ferrous Wheel's descriptions of those grips about 11 posts down from the top.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=253203

 

[mPisi]

Sometimes the chiruwas are quite pointy if the horn shrinks a bit and exposes the metal part of the ring. I find the ring to be usually pretty comfy, but I have not done any serious chopping in a while. If I do want a wrap of some sort, I want to try an A-grip, which is a grip designed for handguns. It looks kinda like velvet ("hey my khuk is wearing a tuxedo!") but is soft yet grippy wet or dry.

 

[Ferrous Wheel]

if i don't say so meself. Here's another short explanation additive:

Axe Grip- Open your hand, place it palm up. next, lay the handle across your palm so the handle is perpendicular to your fingers, and is resting between the ball of the thumb (part of the hand that gets all big, then narrows to the thumb - i'd call it the heel of the hand?) and the rise before the fingers start. Close fingers around handle, then lock the thumb over your pointer finger.

Long Grip or Sword grip - Open your hand, place it palm up. next, lay the handle across your palm so the handle draws a diagonal line across the hand (line from where the pointer finger connects to the hand to the base of the hand that is diagonally opposite). If this is confusing, then lay it across the palm perpedicular (like before) the the fingers, then rotate it in your palm counter clockwise (if you're a right-hander)about 30-45 degrees. Close fingers around handle, then lock the thumb around the handle so it is PARALLEL (not locked on top of)to your pointer finger.

I'll try to lock down a digicam and take some pix, or I'll search the web for grips with pix or something.

These are the basics - there are some variants to this, some shown in the thread that Donutsrule points out.

Then there are some other advanced grips that were unique to certain cultures or time periods. Like the grip techniques used to hold short handles on viking age swords and on khuks like the old 19th c ones. For a time, Archaeologists (who must've spent too much time on an expiditionary dig in their colons) thot these short handled knives/swords were for children(!?!?!?!), but there seemed to be a lot of weapons for children turning up (Basically it would be like an archaeologist in the year 3000AD digging up a derringer and declaring with gusto that he found a 'childs gun.'--don't laugh, it will happen, history repeats itself)

Keith