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Khukuri bayonet on eBay

Knives and swords tend to have a rational function. If it feels counter intuitive there is probably a good reason.

There has been some debate on these khukuri-bayonets for some time. Many are clearly fabricated fantasy pieces while some have been documented from well before collector interest had developed in the area. Examples I12, I13, and I14 from Skennerton and Richardson have well marked blades which are much pointier with almost a yatagan like blade shapes and no cho. I44 in the same reference shows another vaguely khukuri or bolo shaped bayonet again with no cho. These four examples are probably authentic, but, they look very different from the knife offered here.

Care should be exercised since many of these khukuri bayonets we see on the market have simply been put together for the collectors by welding a standard khukuri blade to the base of an old socket bayonet.

Happy hunting.

n2s
 
Middle of the picture:

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Seems fairly daunting to me...:eek:
 
The one pictured on E-bay right now has a blade just like the India Khuk that I am looking at right now. I would be just a bit warry of such a weapon. The blade I am looking at right now is just under a 1/4 ".. Maybe OK for a bayonet but not heavy enough for a khuk.

I would question any thing that is supposed to be old, that is welded with what appears to be brass welding rod.
 
the less functional it seems to be.

I just don't get the point of a khuk bayonet.

(waiting patiently for all the bad jokes.)

It would make an already muzzle-heavy weapon MORE so,

The edge is situated in such a way as to inhibit its utility,

and, off the rifle, it would be more of a scythe than an edged weapon.
 
Note that the blade on the bayonet from the Gurkha Museum posted by Pen is a fairly typical 19th century Nepalese pattern, while the eBay number is equally typical of India, mid 20th century. As several people have noted, it just doesn't look like it would be very useful as a bayonet, and is pretty well useless as a khukuri. Caveat emptor.
 
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