If you had to sell them all but three, what would you keep?

16.5" WWII with Chainpuri style Chandon wood handle by Bura because I'll never see another one like it.
15" CAK with Osage Orange handle by RR kami for its functional toughness and unique beauty.
17" Bura Boomerang with Chandon wood handle because it's my battle choice.
 
hah, take that sharks, i suffer no loss for i only have three! i could cut it down to just two: the sgian dubh and the 17" bgrs. i'm not very attached to the d-1. rather have a tarwar or this other big StRa77ght knife for which i await the release. hell a second rusty may be more appealing.
 
munk said:
I'd use at least one of them to hunt down and destroy whomever or whatever made me choose in the first place...
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hey munk, if you're gonna be in japan at length hunting danny, leave the compoundgate key under the welcome mat for us in case clinton's elected.

jake, bring your xbox360 and controllers, i'll bring a lan cable and the projector. throw in pizza, wings, garlic knots, and beer and it may beat the superbowl.
 
15 inch Sher BAS-awesome extension of my right hand
16 inch BGRS villager-a true blue collar worker
16 inch CAK-chopus maximus
 
I'd keep:

villager falcata
HI katana(sharpened and shined up by Steve)
21" Chitlangi(polished by Joe)

Hard to give up the 17" Foxy Folly or the Cherokee Rose though
 
17" Foxy Folly : Unlike some other folks ;-) , I consider this one of HI's most elegant,
functional khukris. I very much like the leaf shape & heft of it.

12" Pen knife : A great "small" all-round utility/camp knife. As well as
cutting & prying, the blade is a better chopper than you might think.

9" Kerambit : Again, an elegant leaf-shaped blade, This is a very versatile design.
Not only a good SD knife, but can also be used for general small
knife tasks. I have a number of other SD knives, including kerambits,
which are functional only in a SD capacity, For any other use they
range from awkward to practically useless,

The first two were easy. I was having a problem choosing the third, until I noticed my
kerambit sitting next to my monitor. I keep it by me so much of the time, that it had
become invisible,

John
 
Jaiofspam said:
thats a tough one... i would probably kill myself :foot:
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Ok, with wich 3 would you kill yourself?


As for me? I don't even have 3 yet. So if we all had to keep only 3 and sell the others, I would probably have a lot of khukuris to choose from for my third :D
 
ONLY THREE!?
If I could only keep three of my HI, they would be.
My early YCS by Sanu. It was one of the very first and in my opinion, noone did as good a job on the YCS as Sanu.
Next would be my 21 9/16" 28 oz. Foxy Folly. Of the three Foxy Folly that I have , this is the best, Long, Light, Fast.
Lastly would be my early Sanu Falcata. It is my Zombie slayer and that is something to keep close to hand in these coming days of missing khuks.:rolleyes:
 
19" Chit by Sher. (love the dui chirra design)
15" Kobra, also by Sher (like the balance and feel)
WWII MkIII (love everything about it)
 
hey munk, if you're gonna be in japan at length hunting danny, leave the compoundgate key under the welcome mat for us in case clinton's elected - Magnum 22


Refugees willing to be armed, and weary of failed social experiments in our inner cities are always welcome at the compound. You could fix the old Tuttle place and live there. He was a miner.



munk
 
cybrok said:
Ok, with wich 3 would you kill yourself?
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I'd have my brother do a basic london style beheading with my 30" ang khola. I dont trust anyone but him to do the cut correctly, and with that blade - the chance of it failing is very, VEEEERY slim.
 
As an aside,
one of the most creative and pointed names I've ever encountered is Last Visible Canary. I like it as much as Runs With Scissors. Just great.


munk
 
munk said:
As an aside,
one of the most creative and pointed names I've ever encountered is Last Visible Canary. I like it as much as Runs With Scissors. Just great.


munk
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It's actually a play on a qoute from a movie/book. From "a mouse and his child" by russell hoban (about a toy mouse and his child who is linked to him by his hands). They have a running theme of "the last visible dog" wich is represented in a play created by serpentina, a turtle who lives under the lake. the image comes from a can of bonzo dog food, wich has an drawing of a dog holding the can, on wich the same image is reflected into infinity. the mouse and his son fall to the bottom of the lake, and the son/father is told to try to understand the image by serpentina, so he counts the images he can see.

The toy mice sat at the bottom, as the fathers inner workings began to rust over the days, making it harder and harder to convert the coiled energy to motion, even making the turning of his key difficult. They finally come to the conclusion that there is nothing between the dots that make up the printed label.

Then, one of the other characters eats a small portion of the label, and they see a reflection of themselves, saying "Ah, there's nothing on the other side of nothing but us."

Throughout the entire book, theres a series of deep philosophical questions that are presented and asked, but to a set of small toy mice who simply want to find their way home. Regardless of how dark and despairing the images are, there is always a direction, but likewise, always a sense of fear. a real life progression of events, a kind of "Okay. What now?"

The last visible canary is bit more direct, but to me it still presents that feeling of "things to come".... While I like the philosophical and metaphorical situations it represents, I just like the way it sounds, and the actual physical situation it describes. It works looking forward, and back :)


Sorry for hijacking this so much... It's just that no one has commented on it yet. And half of my family comes from the azores :D




It's interesting to see how many people keep their khukuries based on personal reasons, rather then functional ones...
 
Gotta love it. Words can be evocative and mean different things to different people, particularly when they strike a chord, resonate within cues specific to our society. So when I hear last visable Canary, I think of the old mining tunnels where if the birds died, the miners knew the air was no good. Last visable Canary means the way is growing treacherous, and we're down to that. Great.



munk
 
WHAT!!

I only have one, and it is still in the mail! Ok,..I guess I have to buy two more.
Good thing Iam all grownup and have a good job.

I really think I could get by with two. The WWII 16.5 for heavy work and a BAS for those times when a "delicate" touch is required.




Maybe a little baby AK as a hideaway.

I've been meaning to ask, What does HIKV mean anyway?;)
 
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