Hanshee m43

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munk

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Well, I hardly know what the fuss was about...it holds well in the hand, very well, damn well. A little over 17" and 24oz, respectively. The curve is not a burden, as it may appear in the photo of 7-17.. The curve has uses I will have to find. For one thing, this Khukuri likes to swing. It doesn't stop swinging. Unlike the others which expectantly wait for an abrupt end to their journey, whether in air or wood, this things keeps swinging. One of you will no doubt start calling this model the, 'little swinger' though I protest this too cute. This is a serious knife.

I tapped into a 3" pine branch and it acted much like a BAS,which in weight it very nearly is. The BAS has a tad more bash, this a lot more slash, and it makes these wonderful arcs. The spine is a tad over 3/8" in the thickest part, not at the hilt, but toward where on a normal khuk the angle would begin. Call that reinforced and balanced.

It is a balanced package with sheath and two small tools. Here is something; if you hold it sort of at arms, in front of you with blade facing forward, you could pierce an assailent through. You can stab with this. Don't ask me why. YOu could thrust straight ahead and end with a slash.

The edge is almost convex..like Kumar couldn't decide. Convex near the tip. It is not sharp. I will have to decide if I should carry it, and I think it will go along easily and work hard in the field, or put in on a shelf outside of any visitor's drool, like Clifton's for instance, should he ever torture the location of my home out of that CIA operative he found recently in the Cave. Even the Freedmen don't know where I live. Should I use it, and likely I will, I'll put an edge on it.

I should mention the handle is exquisite without the tawdry buttcap. Very slick. An assasin's khuk.

But I don't know knives, just guns. Anyone notice my Townsend Whelen impression?

munk
 
I don't have a camera program, Brendan. What am I going to do with this Khuk? It feels like a great packing khuk but I feel a little strange abusing it...what would you do?

munk
 
What would I do with it - I would'nt use it, I would sharpen it so that I could shave a fly's balls with it then put it under my bed and leave it there till I needed it !!

Alternatively, I would ask myself do I really want this baby - if the answer is no I can think of a good home !!
 
Brendan, I never thought this looking at the design, but it feels lively in the hand and carries easily, and falls by the hip neatly. I could carry this a long way, maybe even into old age- as old as Bill! Sidelining it into a shelf seems...
all of us are sidelined enough as it is in this world, Brendan. We wait for the moment, that 'right' moment that does not come. My old father in law passed away a few years ago with Cancer. In the last 8 years of life he made up for a lot of passed opportunities. He spent time with kids and grandkids. He gave good advice and took an interest whereas before he skated a lot. I watched that old man and learned.

munk
 
Agreed - we are all too sidelind ! I think the Buddhism post is one of the best yet !! Great room for discussion - I hope it doesnt go nasty on us !! I love learning from people, the whole process is amazing - especially if you have a slight ego and are reluctant to admit you are wrong - that way you learn twice as much. More about yourself and to actually just shut up and listen. Also the lesson being learned - that's 3 things !! Munk, we always seem to cross each others paths in these forums - you must tell me more about yourself mate. E-mail or post bro !! (that way everyone can learn or just me)
 
Simple, I've spent my life asking indelicate questions because I've never accepted most reasons for fear. Drunk or sober. I've paid the price. I'm a clod. It embarresses me the things most people think are hidden. Our lives are on our faces and in our voices, our eyes. Very little is actually hidden. As long as we're all naked I figured why not speak honestly? As much for my sake as for yours, I've played the idiot much of my life.

I actually had a lot of sympathy for Gorka's questions and told him so privately. Say what you want, but say it well. Be kind after you've been direct. Never leave people with nothing. Big thing now in my life, and i'm trying; give more than you take, even money and goods.

The only knives I really care for are Khukuris. They are what they are.

I've done a lot of things but never really had a career. I like to write. I've had enough rejection slips to paper a bathroom and have had very little success.
I plan on dying with as little bitterness as possible and leaving a few unpublished novels behind. This surplants my earlier vision of tastefully remaining crocked during all waking moments while reading the classics of the world and observing bodily functions slow, dim and fail, one after another.

I love my sons, my wife, and my friends. All of them will let you down. Treasure the ones who come closest to holding the line and forgive all of them. I once gave 17 thousand dollars to a friend who needed it with no paper and a handshake. That broke us for a long time. He's dead now and I wear his watch. Best watch I ever bought.

If he were alive he would own many Khukuris. I don't have to guess at that. I'll try and bring him one.



munk
 
munk:

That semi-convex edge is the same on my three Kumars.

Out of curiosity, if you look at the left-hand side of the tip, do you see a slight depression in the grind? All of my Kumars have this bobble to one degree (severe on the BAS blem that I own) or another (very minor on my 18" Kobra). I'm wondering if that's a constant on Kumar's blades.

S.

PS. Use that blade and enjoy it. Again, please let us know how it works.
 
Spence, I didn't see the bobble. I will use the blade. Maybe if I saw yours I'd know what you meant. On mine he's tried to remove a tad of metal to correspond the shallow pan running below the spine and above the edge. Looks pretty clean. Maybe Bura could have had it more even, or Kesar.

munk
 
Dear Munk

Thanks for opening your soul my friend - makes me think about my life. If everyone had your attitude I think the world would be a better place !!

B
 
Brendan, if everyone had my attitude I'd have to find another attitude. Thank you for your kind words.

Spence, this 17" or so hanshee m43 has a blade over 14" long; my 19" chitlangi has a blade exactly 13" long. (measured by a string following the actual length of the blade, not the distance between point and hilt. Well, the Chit has a longer handle.

I took it up the mountain behind my house to a aspen grove. I wish my wife could have seen all the bearded and destroyed aspen from the porcupine she insisted I let live last year. Porky took out my only aspen tree in the yard...

This hanshee design is an entirely different thing than I'm used to. Hitting dried pine branches, which are really hard on a blade because the branch moves like a bow, the m43 hanshee did about what my chit could do..sometimes less..until..I found that with a snap of my wrist and almost a throwing motion the hanshee would sail through things bigger than say, a BAS could.
Sometimes I'd pound on a branch, and a big smasher khuk is what is needed. Other times the hanshee blinked right through and it all has to do with technique. The branches were from 1' to 4", maybe a little more.
I was cutting more of the dried insect pods embeded in the wood that the tree grows around. The hanshee could reach around the side of the tree and trim branches out of the way. No other khuk I have can do this so well.

Spence, this khuk worries me a little. With technique, this is a dangerous tool. A small woman who knew what she was doing could do horrible things to you. I think the thing wraps around the wood and slides through, but I'm not sure, because it happens fast.

I'm not so sure you don't throw it like a baseball, if you can understand that.
The edge was very hard almost the entire length of the blade. It took ten minutes to put on an acceptable edge. The edge is still sharp. I used it like a machette a couple of times to experiment. Once i had to hit a bending bush limb three times, I think I swung too slow. Another swipe a little later and all brush was neatly mowed off with little resistance. When this hanshee cuts the way it is supposed to, there is very little shock to your arm. I cut 3" into dried aspen and around 2 and a half into pine, max.It was easy to do precision work, btw, which seems unlikely because of its shape but true.

I think there are possibilities with this blade not possible with any other blade in the line. I am impressed and a little worried.
It is capable of things I don't know yet, but the speed and ease with which it clipped small limbs when my movement was correct makes me think in the right trained hands it would be deadly.


munk
 
Interesting khuk review.

Sounds like it has a pretty unique feel.
Hopefully we'll see more of this model.


Of course, I now want one in my hands more than ever.
 
Interesting, Munk. It sounds like the heavily curved/angled blades are capable of good performance as choppers.

Which means that the issue with the Malla is probably due to the lack of a belly. I'm not surprised. It also doesn't diminish my love for the Malla design.

At least one other person that I can think of has mentioned using a wrist-snap technique. I may try it sometime. But, with my luck, I'd probably end-up inadvertently proving or disproving that bit about thrown khuks boomeranging.

S.
 
Spense, mine is too light to be a 'chopper', but I believe it will cut things in half far more than is indicated by it's stature.
munk
 
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