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Over on the Usual Suspect forum, Emerson has come out with a folding kerambit. Some of the makers there are working with titanium to make lightweight and neck carryable versions.
Now Cecil over at Kris Cutlery has been making traditional versions for years, and good stuff too. Do these guys want the real thing made for generations to work with the body's own reflexes? Do they come over here for real khuks instead of CS and Ontario or even Becker? Nooooooo.
They have to have the newest flashiest Nike $300 sneakers. The biggest chonometer watches like the SEALS wear. The smallest flashlights, the hippest sunglasses, and drive the Corvettes. They've got to be the coolest* (* look it up in your Funk and Wagnal's if you're too young remember the meaning )!!!
So there I am looking for something besides my Sikes-Fairbairn to sharpen ( it goes dull overnite in the sheathe )when my eye strikes one of the 8" Sanu's with it's 3" handle and 5 inch blade. Next is a 9" made like the CBKC, then a Sanu's hasiya, and finally Audrey, my 12" Sirupati. Maxi Kerambit substitutes I wondered, so I picked them up and turned them upside down and I have now seen the the light!
The 8" and 9" Baby Khuks feel soo goood in an icepick edge forward grip. The 12" Sirupati doesn't like being held that way. But the Hasiya - held that way in the off or weak hand and a khuk or better yet a 14 shot CZ83 in the dominant hand, can only be beat by carrying a second 14 shot CZ83.I'm going to have to get a sheath for the Hasiya.
( Did I mention I'm considering naming my hasiya "Countess Bathory" ? )
Now Cecil over at Kris Cutlery has been making traditional versions for years, and good stuff too. Do these guys want the real thing made for generations to work with the body's own reflexes? Do they come over here for real khuks instead of CS and Ontario or even Becker? Nooooooo.
They have to have the newest flashiest Nike $300 sneakers. The biggest chonometer watches like the SEALS wear. The smallest flashlights, the hippest sunglasses, and drive the Corvettes. They've got to be the coolest* (* look it up in your Funk and Wagnal's if you're too young remember the meaning )!!!
So there I am looking for something besides my Sikes-Fairbairn to sharpen ( it goes dull overnite in the sheathe )when my eye strikes one of the 8" Sanu's with it's 3" handle and 5 inch blade. Next is a 9" made like the CBKC, then a Sanu's hasiya, and finally Audrey, my 12" Sirupati. Maxi Kerambit substitutes I wondered, so I picked them up and turned them upside down and I have now seen the the light!
The 8" and 9" Baby Khuks feel soo goood in an icepick edge forward grip. The 12" Sirupati doesn't like being held that way. But the Hasiya - held that way in the off or weak hand and a khuk or better yet a 14 shot CZ83 in the dominant hand, can only be beat by carrying a second 14 shot CZ83.I'm going to have to get a sheath for the Hasiya.
( Did I mention I'm considering naming my hasiya "Countess Bathory" ? )