My 'Famous' M43 Kukri

mtngunr said:
...if i were still jumping out of airplanes with my hair on fire,....
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Uh..Huu hu hu!!! He said the "F" word:eek: Were not even in the cantina.

David I have plenty of respect for anyone who can wait a few days before mutilating that triangle box. The longest I wait is till my wife goes to another room and if that takes too long I sneak it to the shop and open it there. You must be talking about Bawanna at the mailbox ripping it open with his teeth but he opens with surgical precision. His tri-box collection is in perfect condition.
 
ndoghouse said:
Uh..Huu hu hu!!! He said the "F" word:eek: Were not even in the cantina.
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Forgive me for forgetting the favorite letter to forget when forging ahead with fantastic knife favorites, and fabulously easy to forget the former letter forbidden in otherwise free speech on this forum...

I opened the WWII at the counter of a busy metro post office sort center and ladies and gents in front and behind counter admired it very much and i carried out to car with sheathed knife under arm and long triangle in recycle bin....
 
Triangle box in the recycle bin!:eek: I've saved nearly every one I ever got, still got em cept the ones I had to use to send one to somebody else where it wanted to live more than with me. That don't happen very often.
 
Bawanna said:
Triangle box in the recycle bin!:eek: I've saved nearly every one I ever got, still got em cept the ones I had to use to send one to somebody else where it wanted to live more than with me. That don't happen very often.
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On some knives with extremely years long waits, i have saved boxes as a rarity...and for investment knives some have stayed unopened in boxes, and all investment grade knives stay unwrapped....this being in climate controlled vaults.

However, aside from sentimental value, if boxes cataloged to knives and original packing (dated newsprint no less) and proving genuine HI, it certainly would add to value of collection at a future date to those who collect in the future, but in this case, a very advanced collector with gobs of room...and strict injunctions in will against separating or discarding...unfortunately most collections are sold at a pittance piecemeal by heirs who do not know or who do not wish to deal with drawn out disposal of property, so only ones who make money are shark dealers...this all assuming an interest. I think that of those who appreciate khukuris, the HI origin will be a benchmark of quality and future value....paperwork with description and origin/bill of sale much easier to store than boxes for those lacking room...ahem....
 
Hehe, MtnGunr, I think you have mistaken Bawanna's reasons for keeping the boxes. It certainly isn't for investment reasons ;) He just has a fetish for them, to use another of those 'f' words :D Seriously, I do occasionally attempt (my Devanagari is weak at best.) to read the filler when the papers are Nepali language. Otherwise my boxes meet the same fate as yours, but I wouldn't be so cruel as to mention that to Bawanna....OOPS!!
 
If i had the room, i would keep them as well....for single me nowadays, as i row strongly into senior years, and with a cat who loves cardboard boxes, the boxes die much cleaner in the crusher....
 
mtngunr said:
Forgive me for forgetting the favorite letter to forget when forging ahead with fantastic knife favorites, and fabulously easy to forget the former letter forbidden in otherwise free speech on this forum...
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Yes! Phree speech is phine but we cant phorget our phavorite phorumites like fillll and such when you just have to phorge ahead with them phunny phonetics.

... long triangle in recycle bin....
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Blastfemy i tell ya;)
 
Shavru said:
Hehe, MtnGunr, I think you have mistaken Bawanna's reasons for keeping the boxes. It certainly isn't for investment reasons ;) He just has a fetish for them, to use another of those 'f' words :D Seriously, I do occasionally attempt (my Devanagari is weak at best.) to read the filler when the papers are Nepali language. Otherwise my boxes meet the same fate as yours, but I wouldn't be so cruel as to mention that to Bawanna....OOPS!!
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Glad I'm not the only one that likes the Nepalese newspapers that come with the kukris. I of course can't read them, but I do like seeing them. Though I do recall one time finding a piece of paper that looked like an elementary school handwriting practice. I could read that and got a great kick out of it. It was just one of those unexpected things that makes you smile.

And my triangle boxes die in flash of steel and shredded cardboard.
 
I love the newspapers! I keep the Nepali ones. If I learn the language they will be good reading practice. I can translate most to the letter but I dont know what the words mean so its pretty much useless otherwise.
 
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