My Dui Chirra

[ddean]

This is a Great blade.
Definitely an UBBB.

I bought a Dui Chira not too long ago.

If I had started by buying a DuiChirra I'd probably have fewer HI khuks now.
That's a complement!
I had started small & worked my way up to this one.
In the "art of the khukuri" there's not much up
left to go in the way of current production khuks.
And it's a reproduction of a historical blade.

Fit & finish nigh-on perfect.
A real beauty;
even better in hand than the pix can show.

The grip is exactly right for me.
The fullers significantly change the weight distribution
and it feels like a -much- lighter blade in hand.
Then you look down & see this -huge- blade.


The balance point on mine is exactly at the tip of the pwankh.

[I'm trying John........
"Guess trying to have you call a pwankh a pwankh instead of Sword of Shiva is like tilting against windmills. It's almost as difficult to have everyone start calling the cho a kauri which is actually the word used more by Nepalis."---John Powell]

I hadn't realized it has a traditional partial tang.
(near as I can tell with a small magnet,
the tang ends right under the raised ring on the grip)
Anyone planning to do much work with it
would maybe consider pinning it.

The Scabbard is almost as beautiful as the khuk!
It's a great pair.
I do wish it had fewer nails holding some of the leather additions.
They should better have been sewed into slits.
The scabbard seems to be made for display, rather than carry.
Which is why it doesn't have a frog.
A couple of minor blips in the cutting of the leather.

Although I haven't yet tried it as a chopper;
I intend too.
I'll be nice with it though,
It really will become a display piece.
I have others I'd use for shovel & prybar.

The tools look very nice sticking out of their pockets,
but they could use a -little- TLC to make them meet
the standard of the Dui Chirra itself.

The bone / antler handles were rough,
but a short rub with a little olive oil, BonAmi & grocery-bag paper
got them to shine very nicely.
I'm sure the metal bits will easily look just as nice when I get to them.

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[Bobwhite]

Man you're killing me. This is the thorn in my side, the hole in my collection. Back when I had money they were really scarce and hardly ever offered as UBB's. Now I am totally broke and there must have been more than a half dozen up in the last couple weeks. I am being tortured.

 

[ddean]

This is the thorn in my side, the hole in my collection. ..... I am being tortured.

Become
one with the pain little Khukanut..........

Breathe
deep the scents of steel & oil.............

Hold
that breath within your inner forge.............

Allow
your senses to become your chakma,
honing
your mind to its essential sharpness............

Think not.........
Be........................................

Now,
exhale slowly before you pass out.



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[samoand]

...I bought a Dui Chira not too long ago.

If I had started by buying a DuiChirra I'd probably have fewer HI khuks now.
That's a complement!
...
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don't count on it: I started big (very big in fact - the Monster AK was one of my first buys), but downgrading could be just as much fun.