In my next videocall I'll be discussing the depth of these marks so hopefully all orders going forward will be about half as deep. If you look through the years you can see a lot of variation in how these have been achieved. Different smiths have different styles and preferences and it's been pretty loosely controlled historically.
There's no purpose to them- these are just aesthetic. An attempt to help create a characterful and somewhat consistent finish between blades. They're not inherent to the forging process on any blade apart from the falo. In future I would like for all raw blades to have the same finish as the falo, however this may require us to charge more for raw and also alter our weight targets for certain blades. Fullers will likely still need to be ground in, but we may be able to use custom fullering dies with some success. No texturing can absolutely be requested- the end result will have a fine, lightly scaled texture and potentially show some very coarse scratch marks from our roughest stone wheels.
Here's an example of
a blade with very low texturing (very small gentle hammer marks). Note the grind scratches.
And a
mutiny with very low texturing in the fuller. You can imagine that if you removed the nicks from the fuller here it would be a smooth uniform dark grey surface with visible grind scratches.
Take care,
Andrew and the team at Kailash
Kailash Blades
, are all your edges of the convex type? Or are the performance, standard and heavy duty all different edge styles/shapes/geometries, etc.? I could not be prouder of my first khukuri! 
