KaBar Khukri

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gets a little nod over there yonder...

not a Becker, but designed by our very own Toooj yes? KaBar goodness? It's a heyoog chopper, and a good value.

since i CANNOT WAIT for a new Machax design, and i feel Toooj ALSO deserves some of my money, i'll probably be acquiring one of these, and his Cutlass Machete as well. cuz after all, iirc, he designed them to Compete with Camillus and that Becker guy :)

should be fun to compare, and beat on them.
 
formtight said:
What made you look that beauty up? And more importantly, why are you spending my money...?
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someone dragged in up from the dead, which caught my attention

spending money. well, sometimes i do that :)
 
I want the Cutlass machete. The ones I have handled make other big knives look anemic. Seriously. This dude is a hoss and on my stuff to get list.

Moose
 
moosez45 said:
I want the Cutlass machete. The ones I have handled make other big knives look anemic. Seriously. This dude is a hoss and on my stuff to get list.Moose
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that's on my "to do soon" list as well. definitely.
 
I still have a thing for the KaBar Camp knife. I almost bought one once, but came home with a Heavy Bowie that day, instead.

You're quite right though, the badassery of Beckers is no reason to ignore the rest of the KaBar line-up.
 
I have both the cutlas and the kukri. Both are BIG knives. I have beat the crap out of them for years and neither have shown any unexpected damage even chopping and battoning frozen pine in winter. The kukri is so tough that last year when I was teaching at a scout camp I left it out for everyone (140 scouts with supervision + 20 adults) to use at the communal wood pile for the firewood to be battoned for kindling. I picked it up every morning to touch up the edge but even with that amount of wood being processed it never took enough wear that I had to use anything more than a coarse ceramic to sharpen it. I wish it had a better sheath but I certainly won't complain for the money as I think it is one of the best deals out there!
 
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I have two of them so I'd be glad to put one up for a pass around to the Becker forum since this is where Kabar gets all the love if anyone is interested.
 
I like mine well enough - it does what it's supposed to do and is a heck of a chopper ( it's the curvy one. :D ).

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Dittos, the Khukri is a monster! Have'nt used mine yet, too damn many knives. How many can you use at one time!
 
Doesn't quite compete with a real kukri, but still a handy tool for a KLO / forward-swept machete. It was my first of the design and I eventually gravitated to HI from there...

My only real complaint with the knife is that hollow grinds should NEVER belong on a chopper. Period. Unless the diameter was thin enough to cut with one stroke, the blade got stuck in just about anything I took a decent powered swing at. I eventually re-profiled the whole danged thing to a more convex edge and after that, I had no other real problems with it (aside from wanting a real kukri now that I had gotten a taste :p)
 
I agree that the hollow grind is a downer but it's easy to fix. You don't have to reprofile the whole thing, just convex the very edge and round off the shoulders at the top of the hollow grind. I did that on mine and it made a huge difference in the wedging. Think about the grind on a felling axe. There is a convex edge then a hollow grind blended into a convex grind. The shoulders at the top of a hollow grind are what causes the wedging so getting rid of them fixes the problem.
 
Md 25v said:
I agree that the hollow grind is a downer but it's easy to fix. You don't have to reprofile the whole thing, just convex the very edge and round off the shoulders at the top of the hollow grind. I did that on mine and it made a huge difference in the wedging. Think about the grind on a felling axe. There is a convex edge then a hollow grind blended into a convex grind. The shoulders at the top of a hollow grind are what causes the wedging so getting rid of them fixes the problem.
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Felling/limbing axes are different - the concavity is generally at least 4" behind the cutting edge and there's no way that you're going to get that level of penetration whilst chopping/felling so sticking is not an issue except during splitting (hence why splitting muals are V-shaped). On a large knife, this concavity begins around 1" or so behind the cutting edge which is more than enough to cause sticking whilst chopping.

Easy fix or not, I still think that hollow grinds should never be on large chopping knives. If the kabar kukri machete were saber, or better yet, convexed from factory, it would be an amazing tool.
 
Fair enough, my point was simply to let potential buyers know that its easily fixed and is not a reason to avoid the knife.
 
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