Khukuri replacement received. Thanks GK&CO

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Don'tkillbill2.0

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I got my replacement Khukuri today in the mail and tomorrow I'll go out and start chopping. I bought one a few weeks ago and it came with a crack in it.

[video=youtube_share;uhA0Xgmc1Fs]http://youtu.be/uhA0Xgmc1Fs[/video]
 
I feel like GK&CO gets under appreciated around here... awesome to see another great aspect to them that I haven't experienced yet. (I'm assuming they replaced it for you, correct?)
 
I ordered one from them in 2007 and it had a 1cm crack in the blade, sight unseen with no sending of pic's they shipped me another one and got to keep the old one too.

edit. after watching the whole video mine was from gurka house and they sent me a sheath and blade as replacement, and yes I have used the cracked one just fine.
 
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Brad "the butcher";11907474 said:
and yes I have used the cracked one just fine.
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That doesn't surprise me. Even a messed up kukri is still a massive hunk of very tough spring steel, and GK&CO seems to be top notch at working 5160. I've beaten a WWII model so much that I broke the handle (or rather, the brass end cap of the handle - the horn won't come off :p), but the blade is just about indestructible (it's had a few run-ins with concrete and rocks and only received very small dings in the edge from it, easily sharpened out.)
 
Hard to believe they let that knife out of the factory. The fracture is VERY obvious. Also obvious that they sent you an inferior replacement, smaller and thinner than the original.
Another reason above, handle issues, is why I will only buy a knife with a full tang. The overall strength is just superior. Also, 5160 being very high carbon content, is better hardened in oil rather than the water drip method used by most Nepal smiths. That would take care of 99 percent of the stress cracking issues.
 
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Claxton said:
Hard to believe they let that knife out of the factory. The fracture is VERY obvious. Also obvious that they sent you an inferior replacement, smaller and thinner than the original.
Another reason above, handle issues, is why I will only buy a knife with a full tang. The overall strength is just superior. Also, 5160 being very high carbon content, is better hardened in oil rather than the water drip method used by most Nepal smiths. That would take care of 99 percent of the stress cracking issues.
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I have a number of those "water drip method" khukuris and have chopped lots of wood with them. None have cracked. American kamis use the same method, including makers who post in BF. Traditionally, they are differentially hardened, as you probably know. Perhaps through-hardening needs oil.

The full tang design transmits more shock to the wrist and elbow. No doubt full tang is sturdier, and I have several. But I prefer the stick-tang examples, as do those who invented the tool.
 
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