I guess this can be the start of a review thread. I still have more work to do tomorrow but I want to comment while I have the first day in my memory.
I was using a very lightly sharpened 18" kobra by Sher. I don?t know his style so I am not sure how this compares to most light khuks.
The work was a debris pile and black berry bush that wraps around 2/5 of a small garage of a church sponsored "extreme makeover" house. As soon as the guy organizing the job saw that I carried, what he refers to sometimes as a sword, and other times as a [booglakri]? I'm not entirely sure; he assigned me the blackberry bush.
Over all I like the feel of this knife. It is light enough that I can swing at the softer plants and not have to worry about being able to stop it. It even replaced the very dull axe we had found for limbing. The axe was mostly used by me as a hook for pulling debris. While a longer reach might be better for the thorny blackberries this one was adequate.
My only beef is that less than half way through yesterday?s job the butt cap bit me. There is a gap between the horn handle and the cap. The thing made a blister one swing and removed it the next. I was told this can be fixed by filling it in with super glue, but it isn?t that big of a gap.
All of the above was done with only using an old dead coarse wet stone and the chakma the sharpen it. I have since borrowed a metal file and put a crude convex bevel that seems to work fairly well. I still plan on using the sandpaper and mouse pad sharpening system though.
I'm going back tommarow and unless they aquire a metal bladed weed eater I will be finishing the blackberry bush. I will update this then.
I was using a very lightly sharpened 18" kobra by Sher. I don?t know his style so I am not sure how this compares to most light khuks.
The work was a debris pile and black berry bush that wraps around 2/5 of a small garage of a church sponsored "extreme makeover" house. As soon as the guy organizing the job saw that I carried, what he refers to sometimes as a sword, and other times as a [booglakri]? I'm not entirely sure; he assigned me the blackberry bush.
Over all I like the feel of this knife. It is light enough that I can swing at the softer plants and not have to worry about being able to stop it. It even replaced the very dull axe we had found for limbing. The axe was mostly used by me as a hook for pulling debris. While a longer reach might be better for the thorny blackberries this one was adequate.
My only beef is that less than half way through yesterday?s job the butt cap bit me. There is a gap between the horn handle and the cap. The thing made a blister one swing and removed it the next. I was told this can be fixed by filling it in with super glue, but it isn?t that big of a gap.
All of the above was done with only using an old dead coarse wet stone and the chakma the sharpen it. I have since borrowed a metal file and put a crude convex bevel that seems to work fairly well. I still plan on using the sandpaper and mouse pad sharpening system though.
I'm going back tommarow and unless they aquire a metal bladed weed eater I will be finishing the blackberry bush. I will update this then.
