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Help with first Kukri
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That's why I prefer the guillotine. Same results every time! Now guesswork, no tired on last swing just plain efficient. Wonder if Bhakta could make me one. That'd be great in the kitchen and its too heavy for my wife to tote around when she's ticked off at meA little correction, if I may.
I think we should consider the kynetic energy. That is Ek = ½mv2...sorry, I cannot write powers, so rephrasing it's actually (m * v * v) / 2. This is what I remember from many, many years back.
This formula tells you that actually adding speed to an object will benefit you much more than increasing mass. (This is why you will see a small malinois taking down a big helper and sometimes a big mastiff won't, although it does pack significantly more power once it got a hold of you.) Mass appears once as a multiplier, velocity twice. However, and here's the catch: there's just so much speed you can add using your muscles. And with each swing you will find it harder to use the same velocity. But, OTOH, what you can do is to increase the mass. There's a point where increasing the speed provides diminishing returns, that is, because you are a human, and not a robot. You can imprint only "so" much speed to an object. That is why one will read again and again that with a kukri you let its own weight (gravity) do the work...and the flick of the wrist at the end. Because it is much, much more practical to lift a kukri and let its weight do the job...than using your muscle. Gravity wins each and every time here on Earth, in the long run, so why not use it?
That's why I prefer the guillotine. Same results every time! Now guesswork, no tired on last swing just plain efficient. Wonder if Bhakta could make me one. That'd be great in the kitchen and its too heavy for my wife to tote around when she's ticked off at me
You mean you don't have yet some kind of guillotine used for cutting some food? You seem to love to brutalize food
. Hmmm..."Sashimi Slayer"?
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You mean you don't have yet some kind of guillotine used for cutting some food? You seem to love to brutalize food
Who? ..me brutal?...
Here's my meat tenderizing hammer.
Gotta get tough on some of the critters that end up in my kitchen
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That would be the formula for momentum, not energy. However, it still illustrates your point. For a given speed, the blade with more momentum will continue farther into the cut.
Who? ..me brutal?...
Here's my meat tenderizing hammer.
Gotta get tough on some of the critters that end up in my kitchen
I might have just found a fella more dangerous than Bookie or prime Mr. Bawanna!
Many moons ago when I had the same question, I was lucky enough to correspond with Uncle Bill, who counseled that a WWII was a great all around first khuk. I can't think of a better recommendation. It happens to be the one I use more than all the rest put together. Some of which may be to do with the fact that now its a user I don't have to worry about dings and dents, but more so because I think of U.B. reaching out to somebody he didn't know at all to offer his advice.
He recommended 18", although noted if someone was of smaller stature he might recommend the 16.5".
He recommended 18", although noted if someone was of smaller stature he might recommend the 16.5".
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When you swing something heavy, Fatigue becomes a Huge factor. Then what happens is you get sloppy and careless and NOTHING good comes from that. Get something Lighter, within reason and you will thank me bigtime. BTW, Bruce Lee was a lightweight wasnt he? My Point is that a well made and balanced Blade will be more easily wielded, Chop very well AND you wont hate lugging it around. Let the people that have a collection buy the heavy weights and get something youll like to use and carry.
There is some truth in what you've said, but going too light can actually lead to more fatigue just through having to swing it that much more. So it's a balancing act.
I personally really like my 18" WWII, and it was my first, however I haven't chopped or cut anything more than cardboard boxes with it. I'd buy tatami mats for practice, but those aren't cheap.