Kumar 18" Ang Kola & Scabbard by the Sarki with No Name

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James Mattis

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THIS is a knife!
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The whole thing is too big for my legal-size scanner. Click on the medium pictures for big pictures.

And here is a directory of more images - mostly digital photos of varying quality - of the same khukuri.

I haven't chopped anything with it yet.

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- JKM
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[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 07-29-2000).]

[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 07-29-2000).]
 
Excellent James! I looked at every picture. You have a real eye for light and composition. The world is gradually being populated with "point and shoot" types so it's a nice change to see some shadows and textures. And it is a nice knife of course!

Gregg
 
Gotta find out the name of the new Sarki!
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(For some reason, I couldn't get the image to work in the top post - let's see if it works here.)

(It won't work, no matter what, so let's try posting the medium size image...)

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And click here for the big image.

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[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 07-29-2000).]
 
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That's absolutely beautiful James!!
I checked out all the pix as well.
Kumar did an outstanding job on this one for sure.
If mine had of looked like this on I may not of ever found out Just how good a knife it is.
I made a new chakma and karda for mine with whitetail deer handles inlayed with torquoise and coral.
My 18" AK is the one I would take if I could take only one. I consider mine to be the best knife in the world performance wise. I believe that yours must be the most beautiful.
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Perhaps when you use it you may also consider it to be the best knife in the world as well.


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"There's no trick in being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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Khukuri FAQ
 
NIce pictures James! Seriously, its rare to see that attention to light quality and texture--really pays off when photographing something with so many delicate surface fluctuations like a khuk blade.
I agree with Yvsa, my 18" AK (just got a few days ago) is my new favorite, and would probably be the "one" if I could take only one as well.
That is one nice scabbard also! How is the fit?

Rob(formerly MauiRob)

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Yvsa:I thought the most beautiful knife in the world was the one i found in the archives,that you put the 'bow wood?' handle on.Cant remember the term you used...
With all this praise for the AK it looks like that might be the next one i get.
 
The three images with the blue paper background are from putting the khukuri on my flat-bed scanner, at whatever angle makes the light least-bad. The light travels from "head" to "foot." Three diminsional objects are highlighted toward the "foot" and shadowed toward the "head." In this case the edge is angled toward the "head" so I don't get too much bright white-red flare, making it look like it was just grossly overheated in the forge.
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That's why the images with the good detail don't show the whole knife, since the scanner glass is only 8.5" x 14". The digital camera images (most of them on that silver-grey cloth draped over my laser printer, with bright afternoon sunlight coming through the office window behind me) are from my Sony Mavica FD91 digital camera, which is terribly versatile but can't manage the detail that the scanner gives me. I just tried to move the camera this way or that, so that the reflections on the blade were the beige walls of the office or the nearby beige computer tower, and not me. The camera couldn't do much to bring out the tooling on the black leather.

By the way, though chopping will tell better of course, that handle seems to be the most comfortable in my hand of any khukuri I've met yet. The pommel doesn't bite!
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- JKM
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I am still of the opinion that carrying a big knife is much better than carrying a small one. The big knife will do everything the small one will even though it may be awkward for doing something that a small knife would do better.
I have at times carried a small knife and almost always wish I had of taken the big one instead.
It seems that there is always something that I want to cut where the big knife would have excelled.

Here lately I have taken to useing my 18th Century model as it is a bit lighter to carry and it penetrates more easily due to its thinner edge profile.
We get our paradigm shifted since what we call a little khukuri is a big knife by others standards.
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The advantage of owning khukuris is the fact that we have the chakma and karda for small knives and tools.
When I made the chakma for my 18"AK
I sharpened the edge on it. Uncle Bill stated at one time that was what he would do. A person can lose one of the small knives and if the chakma is sharpened you still have at least one that you can use for smaller tasks.

I believe the one I put the Honey Locust handles on was one of the Stars, Sun and Moon models and they are truly beautiful!! They are also of a good useing size and due to the thinner profile of the edge make penetration much easier than the AK models. Even though the other models have each a unique feature about them that makes them very user friendly the 18"AK is in my opinion indestructable and one that anyone could rely on for a lifetime if need be. Then again if a person used only one khukuri all the time we would get to know it so intimately that it would become an extension of our arm and excell at any task that was put before it.
However if we did that we wouldn't have nearly as much fun suffering from HIKV.
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From Uncle Bill's thread where I nabbed this one:

The khukuri is an 18.5 inch Ang Khola with a 7/16 thick blade. The knife weighs in at 2 pounds even -- again that is pretty light for an 18.5 inch AK from BirGorkha. The fit and finish are excellent. The handle is saatisal and excellently done. Hardness is about 58 or 59 Rc in the chopping area. Of some interest to me and perhaps to you are the karda and chakma.

First, they are handled in what the BirGorkha folks call "hill walnut" and it looks like a sort of tiger wood to me with tan grain blending next to dark brown. It is beautiful stuff and both handles are made from it. Further, the karda has an edge hardness of close to 60 Rc. They both are excellently done and are tools/weapons in their own right. Kumar is taking more time and collecting bonuses.
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- JKM
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Bill,

I've thought before that you are a serious candidate for Nikon's 9XX series. The top of the line right now is the 990 but last year's top of the line is still being sold at various places. It's the Nikon 950. I've seen it recently for as little as $624 new. This for a camera everybody was paying $900 for 10 months ago. The number one great feature for you would be that it has incredible close up. It can focus down to 2 centimeters. I've heard you can have a full frame shot of the eraser on a pencil! That should be close and sharp enough to show any little detail you want. Here is a review from dcr http://www.dcresource.com/Nikon_vs_Olympus/

And here's a review page from the same site where actual users write in with what they like or don't like: http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/cameraDetail.php3?cam=128

Here's the review of the newer (and more expensive) 990 if you just want to see what the improvements are: http://www.dcresource.com/specials/C3030Z_vs_CP990/

This is a camera I've wanted to buy for myself for a long time but it hasn't happened yet. I'm still in love with my Canon film cameras and FD lenses. For somebody in your position though the Nikon would be great.

Gregg
 
Here's the 18" Ang Kola next to its "little" second cousin from New York.

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So why do I think of that serious industrial chopper-lopper as a small knife now?
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- JKM
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This entire HI community thinks if a knife is not 1/2 inch thick and weighs less than a couple of pounds it belongs in the "small" category. As I said somewhere else in the forum today it is all in the perspective.

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Himalayan Imports Website
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Yvsa, sometimes it's hard to obey conscience within, but if
logic tells me what is right, I have to tell,

Nothing is better than carrying a big knife.
A small knife is better than nothing.
Then, a small knife is better than a big knife.

Now I offer you my small karda for your 18th Century!
No, you don't have to pay extra cost. I'll be only happy if
I can see your face shines in joy.


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Uncle Bill,
Any chance of getting 5 orders of this one "exactly" as this one? If so I'm in.

I'll special order if needed as this is one to have!! (More Khukuri's are a good incentive for quitting the smokes)

Thanks for reply!



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Greg
 
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