How I got involved in Khukuri's

Originally posted by Sylvrfalcn
My kid brother .... the "really good people" he was talking about was this fellow named Bill Martino and an outfit called Himalayan Imports.:
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Do we know kid brother?
 
I came to khukuries in a roundabout route, probably like most people here. I bought a cheap tourist khukuri as an 'Indian knife', because of my lifelong love of Indian things, culture, language, etc. Then, wanting to know more about my 'khukuri' I stumbled onto the HI website and then onto the forum. Where I learnt to my chagrin what sort of khukuri I had really bought. But I stayed on here, and learned enough about khukuris at least to recognise the really bad tourist khukuris - through the kind instruction of Uncle Bill, John Powell, Berkeley, N2S and others. And met lots of interesting people like Yvsa and Walosi and many others.

Shortly after I acquired an HI BAS, and then soon after that other HI khukuris. And I gleaned enough from advice and instruction on the forum from John Powell, and reading, and rereading, and rereading Howard's Khukuri FAQ to pick up a couple of older khukuris - a WWII-ish officer-model khukuri, an older Nepalese khukuris with crescent moon-'armoury' markings (though probably not an Royal Armoury khukuri, as I learnt from JP), a WWI kukri, etc. (and eventually a few Indonesian blades from Valiant, which are quite nice as well).

In the meanwhile, I quickly saw that Nepali itself was an Indo-Aryan language (I'm a linguist by trade, and so these are the sort of things that always draw my attention), and that--from some previous knowledge of Sanskrit and Hindi--I could partially understand some Nepali - basic things like dui meaning "two", and tulwar as a variant of tarwar, etc., etc.

So one of the very important side effects--for me personally--of learning about khukuris (specifically through Uncle Bill and HI, and people associated with HI in various ways) was that I developed a great interest in Nepal herself, and Nepali language and culture, history, etc..

Uncle Bill posted a message one day about redesigning the HI website - I decided to have a go at it, as I'd designed some basic websites for myself before. I ended up learning an awful lot about web-design in the process. Dan 'Pendentive' helped tidy up the main HI pages a bit later. And that's the basic story.
 
I just this thread, "How i got into kukris" , Then I sat & mused

Without originaly finding Beorams site all this may never have happend.

So Anyway thankyou for providing me this pleasure Beoram, Bill, & John Powell.

Regards,
Spiral
 
Years ago, my fantasy was to dream about being a modern-day mountain man. I always thought the bowie knife was the "only" big blade worth owning (see my name?). Oneday I got my hands on a cheapie kukri from AC. It outchopped my most expensive bowie knife. I thought, "How could a $20 dollar knife outdo a $175 bowie? It must be the curved blade!" Since then, I've been hooked. And, I discarded my cheapie from AC as soon as I stumbled onto HI.
 
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