Khukuri Collection Display

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gunstockjack

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This display was at the 2015 OKCA Show in Eugene, in case you missed it.

Collection of T. Fitzwater






Me and the guys: Dave, Rick, Charlie, and me.




One guy came in with a HUGE khuk about 4 ft. long and 8 pounds! Kinda like holding a sledge hammer in your paws! lol
 
gunstockjack said:
This display was at the 2015 OKCA Show in Eugene, in case you missed it.

Collection of T. Fitzwater
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Teds a great guy with a wonderful & advanced kukri collection, & was a member of this forum in the days of uncle Bill before some of the younger whippersnappers here even left school. :D

Nice to see the accurate #& true identification of tourist/export crap & fakes displayed alongside the top genuine historical pieces.. With the accurate & true identification of whats what...

spiral
 
Some fine kukri bayonets there too. Very sweet display.

Gunstock, we've met before, I don't know when or where but I've seen you before someplace. You ever been arrested in Monroe?
Work construction? Seeing your picture it was an immediate I know that guy.
Fella to your right looks familiar too but not quite as much.

You ever do Monroe gunshow? I gotta figure this out. Heck I might owe you money or something.
 
Bawanna said:
Some fine kukri bayonets there too. Very sweet display.

Gunstock, we've met before, I don't know when or where but I've seen you before someplace. You ever been arrested in Monroe?
Work construction? Seeing your picture it was an immediate I know that guy.
Fella to your right looks familiar too but not quite as much.

You ever do Monroe gunshow? I gotta figure this out. Heck I might owe you money or something.

Now I remember you! lol Just kidding.

Fellow to my right is Charlie Campagna from Vancouver BC, an ardent collector and purveyor of fine quality pocket cutlery.

I've been at a few gunshows, but Monroe last time was about 5 years ago. I had a table with a few guns and knives. Although I recall you did snipe a kobra from me the other day. :eek: Computer issues, dang. :(
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Well heck, now I feel bad. I hate snipers when it comes to buying stuff. I love snipers when it comes to shooting stuff.

Had I known I would of let you have it, I didn't see nobody else express an interest. I'm trying to lose my greedy got to have everything reputation although I'm not doing too good at it.
 
Not a problem, I was trying to 'bundle' some knives, but they went too quick and I was late to the party, as usual.
Bawanna said:
Well heck, now I feel bad. I hate snipers when it comes to buying stuff. I love snipers when it comes to shooting stuff.

Had I known I would of let you have it, I didn't see nobody else express an interest. I'm trying to lose my greedy got to have everything reputation although I'm not doing too good at it.
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Wow gunstockjack those are some great kukris and a great write up. Thanks for sharing everything, I love seeing other peoples rare and special pieces.
 
OK, I gotta know. Those bayonets... The top one I recognize as being true to form though it might be a reconstruction, I ain't good enough to tell from a photo, heck probably not even if I was holding it my hands. But the one that looks like an AK welded to the socket? Since Spiral says both are shown together I am guessing it has to be one of the tourist pieces he mentioned being shown?

Thanks for sharing the pics Gunstock, I enjoyed seeing them.
 
Shavru said:
OK, I gotta know. Those bayonets... The top one I recognize as being true to form though it might be a reconstruction, I ain't good enough to tell from a photo, heck probably not even if I was holding it my hands. But the one that looks like an AK welded to the socket? Since Spiral says both are shown together I am guessing it has to be one of the tourist pieces he mentioned being shown?
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The lower bayonet blade is a fantasy fake with a mk.3 kukri been sold for at least the last 35 years by many importers..

The one above is probably fake as well, I cant tell without good detail pics... But as everything else on that side of that particular peg board is either, tourist, cheap export or fake, its probably fake as well... The photo next to it will be Ted showing the difference between real & fake .

Atlanta cutlery sell the upper fake... they found a few genuine ones when the cleared out the army stores in Nepal... The real ones go for $1000 so they sold them first, then sadly started marketing the fake/replica ones at $66 each...

So now sadley most collectors are scared to buy them as the fakes abound on ebay & second hand dealer market. etc.

The originals are totally hand forged & ground.

The replica/fakes are made with modern steel & power tools , so some can tell the difference in hand, but those not used to engineering process or who have not seen the original 200 year old bayonets to compare get caught on when they hit the second-hand market..

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I suppose this is as good a place to ask as any - pretty much every kukri with that dot pattern on the handle is cheap/tourist junk, right?
 
Nice one... Also reminds me that I should keep track of kuk names, kami and specs of my ever growing collection.
 
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