Khuks...

Ottoshot

Ottoshot

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The way the end of the handle tapers out like a stag horn... What is the purpose of this? is it function or style? does your hand slide on the handle frequently?

It does look cool.
 
Ottoshot said:
The way the end of the handle tapers out like a stag horn... What is the purpose of this? is it function or style? does your hand slide on the handle frequently?

It does look cool.
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From my limited experience I'd have to say it's functional. Whether you're chopping down a live red wood, or taking out the neighborhood zombie, you're still swinging it hard in a forward movement. I assume it's there to prevent it from flying out of your hand and landing in your other neighbors head.
 
It's there to keep it from flying out of hand on a hard swing.
The ridge is to keep the hand from sliding forward over the blade on a push cut/stab/etc.
 
It is primarily function, as the others have mentioned. Also, keep in mind that khukuris are made in a region where Buddhist and Hindu beliefs intermingle. The handle, like the blade, has a lot of religious connotation which meaning has been lost over a hundreds of years. The rings in the middle of the handle keep your hand from sliding onto the blade, but they also have a "meaning" which is supposedly forgotten. The same thing can be said about the "cho" or that little notch in the blade between the bolster and blade edge. The flared buttcap does keep the khuk from shooting from your hand on the back swing, but the peened keeper where the tip of the tang is exposed is sometimes referred to as "the eye of God" since it sort of looks like an eye.
 
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