In praise of the budget sword.

Fun with sword like objects....


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Nebuchadnezzar said:

That said, I picked up a Cold Steel Cutlass a few years ago for funsies.
Wife thought I was crazy, but when a hurricane blew our roofing off and we had to poke holes in the ceiling sheetrock to let the water out of the attic so the roof wouldn't collapse it came in handy.
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Didn't some company release a copy of the sword Indiana Jones used in Temple of Doom to cut the bridge, back in the day?
 
WValtakis said:
Yup, the Khyber Bowie.
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I am a fan of the Khyber Bowie knife. I bought one when they first came out, not because of the knife, sheath, the association with Indiana Jones or the movie; but, because I so enjoyed the marketing blurb on the side of the box. It made me realize that I had no idea what a proper khyber knife looked like. I was familiar with the name from reading the history of British colonial wars, but none of those had provided an image or illustration of the knife and the internet as we know it didn’t exist back then.

So I bought the Indiana Jones knife and set off to find an example of an antique khyber knife. It took several months of going through library books, antique stores, and knife stores before I found a poor image of the knife in Levine’s Guide, and perhaps another month of searching before I found my first real khyber knife. In the process I became very interested in ethnographic knives and have since built up a nice reference section. The process is so much easier with the internet; but, it still takes something, like a colorful marketing pitch on a box, to trigger an interest.

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