- Joined
- Jul 27, 2005
- Messages
- 8,165
Last Friday I recieved my HI 21.5 inch 32 ounce Dui chirra by Vim Bhadur kami. It came packaged well and included a little bonus item(more on that later). The first thing I noticed was that it was BIG... almost as big as my Cold Steel Moro Barong, about as big as a sword.
It came with a red leather sheath with 6 different tools, an awl, button hook, saw, tweezers(cool!), karda etc. All with antlered handles, they horn makes for comfortable handles on the tools but the pointy tips can catch you when you reach in to take out the knife if your a little zealous about it. The stain on the leather must have bleed or something because its much darker in a few spots(but doesnt bother me.
It came fairly sharp out of the box, but with a few strokes of my strop I had it shaving sharp and ready to go. First thing I did was feel the balance...forward like a khukri should be but not unweildy due to the double fullers(hence Dui Chirra-dual fullers) it felt very livley in the hand and was nimbler than a knife that size I would have suspected would be. The handle was comfortable and the corners were rounded off on the handle nicley so there was no discomfort from them.
I took it outside to chop some wood, it did fairly well and with little effort dug into the wood nicely.
getting it out of a log it decided to give me a little love tap to let me know it was here to stay.
I split a few logs to get the feel of it without making to wide a cut. It did well, my FFBM was on par with it but its just as heavy yet shorter and more stout. Few things match up with my FFBM for shear chopping power but this kept up with it. I will add that I have not used it to chop much, so I cant say wheather it will or should out chop the FFBM, just a different style of knife. I did feel more comfortable chopping with the FFBM as there's less steel out there and the flat back of it lends to battoning easier.
Next I started delimbing a blowdown, my camera ran out of batteries here so no pics of this. However it did very very well, with a knife that size it took no effort to take limbs off and given the design of the khukri it felt comfortable clearing the blowdown of branches. It easily took red oak branches the size of my wrist in a moderate swing (still green, from a storm that took it down)
I checked the edge and it was no longer popping hairs but still shaved without much effort. I worked it over my leather belt and it was back to where I like it.
I took it inside to get some pictures with a few of my other choppers after I replaced the batteries. . My CGFBM, DFLE, RD9, Becker 9. As you can see this dwarfs them by size.
Then I threw my rtak in there so those who dont have the choppers mentioned above could get some comparison.
I did get all these knives out today (hence why they are so scuffed and dirty) but this review was about the Dui Chirra so I am only commenting on its performance in this thread. They did all recieve cleaning sessions for those clean freaks out there.
It came with a red leather sheath with 6 different tools, an awl, button hook, saw, tweezers(cool!), karda etc. All with antlered handles, they horn makes for comfortable handles on the tools but the pointy tips can catch you when you reach in to take out the knife if your a little zealous about it. The stain on the leather must have bleed or something because its much darker in a few spots(but doesnt bother me.
It came fairly sharp out of the box, but with a few strokes of my strop I had it shaving sharp and ready to go. First thing I did was feel the balance...forward like a khukri should be but not unweildy due to the double fullers(hence Dui Chirra-dual fullers) it felt very livley in the hand and was nimbler than a knife that size I would have suspected would be. The handle was comfortable and the corners were rounded off on the handle nicley so there was no discomfort from them.
I took it outside to chop some wood, it did fairly well and with little effort dug into the wood nicely.
getting it out of a log it decided to give me a little love tap to let me know it was here to stay.
I split a few logs to get the feel of it without making to wide a cut. It did well, my FFBM was on par with it but its just as heavy yet shorter and more stout. Few things match up with my FFBM for shear chopping power but this kept up with it. I will add that I have not used it to chop much, so I cant say wheather it will or should out chop the FFBM, just a different style of knife. I did feel more comfortable chopping with the FFBM as there's less steel out there and the flat back of it lends to battoning easier.
Next I started delimbing a blowdown, my camera ran out of batteries here so no pics of this. However it did very very well, with a knife that size it took no effort to take limbs off and given the design of the khukri it felt comfortable clearing the blowdown of branches. It easily took red oak branches the size of my wrist in a moderate swing (still green, from a storm that took it down)
I checked the edge and it was no longer popping hairs but still shaved without much effort. I worked it over my leather belt and it was back to where I like it.
I took it inside to get some pictures with a few of my other choppers after I replaced the batteries. . My CGFBM, DFLE, RD9, Becker 9. As you can see this dwarfs them by size.
Then I threw my rtak in there so those who dont have the choppers mentioned above could get some comparison.
I did get all these knives out today (hence why they are so scuffed and dirty) but this review was about the Dui Chirra so I am only commenting on its performance in this thread. They did all recieve cleaning sessions for those clean freaks out there.
Last edited:
.
