HI Bolo

1/2" thick spine? I name this chopper "Ye bane of Arbor Day" :)

I like the design, even at 1/2" thick. HIKV has been in remission but I sense a relapse if more of these show up!
 
If my count is correct, 4 Bolo's have been sold to date and I have #3. :D

Medbill nice snag!! You have a great knife there. Yesterday after work I was sanding down the handle and touching up the edge on mine. Mine came relatively dull.... The edge is so hard that even my diamond rod takes for ever do to anything to the edge. But a 220 grit sand paper strop did the trick rather fast.

Mine is a little thinner and lighter, wonder how they compair at chopping wood and cutting light stuff. If you get a chance, please post pictures of your new blade. The ones Yangdu took are great, I just want more. ;) he he he.

Heber
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Nice piece of work on Sher's part, but I can't help wondering out loud, how the same knife would perform with a full convex grind, and a spine thickness held down to 1/4 -5/16 of an inch. Ouch, quit throwing them rocks at me, ah wuz jes thankin' out lowd, sheesh. :foot:

Sarge
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Sarge, you won't see any rocks from my direction. I was thinking about the same thing yesterday as I was sharping up mine. :) The edge on mine is convex.... Didn't look (wanted to head out to the pool to chat with the lovely girls instead of play with knives all day :p) to close, but I kind of think mine would be full convex if it wasn't for the fuller.

Heber
 
I like the design of the HI Bolo, but with a 1/2" spine and a weight of 30 ounces, it seems more suited to heavy chopping around the woodpile, a task already quite capably handled by my stout 18" villager AK. In fact, it's only about 6 ounces lighter than my dadburn Tarwar. I'm sure this version of the bolo has much appeal to those who prefer thick, heavy, blades, but I'd personally prefer a version half as thick and twice as quick. I could do some real trail clearing work and such with a knife like that.

Ouch, dangit, there go them rocks again, y'all gonna put sumbody's eye out.:p

Sarge
 
The Hi bolo sort of looks like a Pira by a seller of Philipine stuff. The Pira is thinner (1/4") and lighter (17 oz). The fat part of the Pira extends much further back toward the bolster. There is no bolster on the Pira, and it is not any competition for the HI blade. The Hi is a chopper - thick and very strong.
The Hi bolo doesn't look like traditional bolos, but they aren't designed to do what the Hi blade can do. Traditional bolos would probably break if anyone attempted to abuse them and tried to use them for chopping really tough material. I am just guessing about this - I don't own a traditional bolo.
 
The HI seax is not a seax, the HI katana is not a katana, heck there are people that have said the HI khukuri is not a khukuri in the traditional sense. These wonderful blades are only called these things because they MUST be called something. What they are is useful.

Jake
 
There are many HI khuks that are traditional. The only point of view I've heard to the contrary is from a very small segment out of England where things British are authentic.

For other blades, I think Yvsa's answer was a good one. No, the HI Bolo is not a bolo, the Katana not a 'Katana'.. They are useful and well made and beautiful, however. I think the Nepalese blades HI offers are closer to tradtion.

I wonder if this is a modern obsession, as we lose so much that was valuable from the past, both in tools and tradition, we become obsessed with 'authentic'. ????

HI blades are those you can trust and see 'the Elephant' with; that's good enough for me, a tradition of use and reliability.

munk
 
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