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Greven

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Curious as to what Kukri you get the most for your money cold steel or extrema ratio ? Or another that tops them all ? (was looking at sar kv1 also)
 
Himalayan Imports is the usual suggestion around these parts--and for good reason. :)
 
There are real Khukuris and there are Kukhri-Like-Objects (KLO) that don't come close to the performance of a real khuk'.

Stick with the fine ones from Nepal.
 
look into the Busse Killa Zilla... best thing out there if you don't care about "tradition"

the cold steel San Mai blades are pretty great too
 
Himalayan Imports all the way. Just got my first one Saturday. They're amazing to look at and to use
 
No substitute for an HI. If you have your technique down (and there is a thread explaining it in the HI forum) you can't go wrong. Never seen anything else that came close. Forget that Busse unless you are really rich; you can buy several HI for the same price, and the Busse wont be able to significantly outchop any of them, if it can at all.
 
If your gonna treat a knife the way the do on that site don't get an H.I. leave them for those of use who will use them the ways they were intended.
 
frankly, I appreciate that site for taking knives to their limits, but if you are doing any of that stuff, you need a chisel, a hammer, and an oxyacetylene torch, not a knife.
 
Greven said:
Was looking around for HI and then i saw knifetests had made a destuction test on on of them
hmmm http://www.knifetests.com/himalayanimportsangkholadtest.html
zilla killa well i love busse but always hard to find if you dont want to pay twice what its worth.
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That test tilted me over any reservations about the quality of HI manufacture - a random sample and all he could destroy (after lengthy torture) was the handle?! :thumbup:
I now own a 15" HI villager-quality khukuri and love it, and it was far less expensive than CS, Busse, XR or Fox.

Note: a khukuri is NOT a machete (although certain styles can fill that purpose). So if you're looking for a kukri-machete, CS certainly gives a lot of bang for the buck (and that same site has chopping comparisons and a d-test of a CS).

I hope this doesn't become another anti-noss thread now that it's been brought up...
 
thegeek574 said:
frankly, I appreciate that site for taking knives to their limits, but if you are doing any of that stuff, you need a chisel, a hammer, and an oxyacetylene torch, not a knife.
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1+ nodbody with a brain would torture a knife like this but i to love when he pushes the knife to their limit
 
agreed... if you don't push products through a few tests to see what they can take, you're never going to know how far you can push them. CS "PROOF" videos abused hundreds of knives and probably tripled the sale of their brand and nobody called them brainless.
 
rustyrazor said:
agreed... if you don't push products through a few tests to see what they can take, you're never going to know how far you can push them. CS "PROOF" videos abused hundreds of knives and probably tripled the sale of their brand and nobody called them brainless.
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I would.
 
I wouldn't. It's been a brilliant marketing campaign for them even though I find it a little distasteful myself. I don't like it, but I wouldn't call it brainless. They knew JUST what they were doing. :p
 
that was my point exactly... CS knew exactly what they were doing with those videos, and it was a brilliant marketing scheme. I as well thought they were distasteful, but to the uniformed buyer these videos were undeniable "proof" just as they claimes. I don't agree with most of their tests and I am not a fan of their knives overall (with some exceptions) but as far as making a comercial and a name for themselves, they succeded big time! ...nothing stupid about that.
 
Did any of those videos impress real knife users? No.

I don't count ninja TEOTWAWKI types as particularly "brainy". P.T. Barnum already summed them all up well over 100 years ago.
 
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