My newest khuk...

Ferrous Wheel

Ferrous Wheel

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is my oldest khuk. I figure it is an 1850's piece, but I'd defer to the experts. The pitting isn't too deep, and the edge has seen no abuse like the avg. field knife or military issue khuk. Providence of this piece is relatively nil, as it came to me from Brazil, and went there from Britain. It is still very sharp, but shows no signs of being sharpened within the last 50+ years.

For a 16.5 inch khuk, it is amazingly light. From the bend of te khuk on, it is thinned out in a 'weaponized' fashion, unlike the mil khuk I got from AC (which is much more uniform in thickness along its length, and thicker overall)

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this is Ivan's pic of it. I'll try to get a few more pix if I can...

Keith
 
Well, Ivan Campos listed this and another for sale in the BF Exchange. I got one, and Nasty got the other (bone handled, with decorative carving and inlays). Both are sweet khuks fer the price!

Keith
 
I thought both looked real nice and reasonable too! Wish HI would make some with handles, bolsters and cho's like that!
 
*My* newest, oldest Khuk...from the same deal as Keith. It's a bit smaller at about 14 1/2", sharper than his, same age patina I think. Nice brass inlays like our modern HI ones. Bone, not ivory to our eyes. The only real flaw with this one is that at some time in the past, the buttplate was replaced with a rough flat piece of brass, clearly not original.

Any info from the experts would be very much appreciated!


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AHHHG! I already miss them! :(
You both seem to have liked them and I am sure they will be well cared, so I am happy, too.
 
hollowdweller said:
Don't you just love that arc and overall shape? Awesome.
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Yeah. And I also love the fact that there's no so-called habaki bolster or cho creep!!!!:D
That's the way a "real" khukuri should look like!!!!:D :cool: :D :cool: :D
 
Nice knives.

Hey Yvsa, I noticed that there is one very tangible benefit to the cho creep and habaki bolster phenomenon. These "improvements" are a very effective cure for HIKV.
 
kamagong said:
Nice knives.

Hey Yvsa, I noticed that there is one very tangible benefits to the cho creep and habaki bolster phenomenon. These "improvements" are a very effective cure for HIKV.
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You got that right but HI still makes the best khuks so what's a man, or woman, to do?;) :grumpy: :D
 
mine has already been cleaned/lightly posished by hand with United's Metal-Glo poishing paste, which lifts rust and corrision off the blade and leaves only wonderful patin uner a thin coat of wax.

The more I look at ths one Nasty, the more i wonder if they are forge-folded. Not all of that grain structure we saw is work scratches. I can see a few spost of delamination and the dark forge faults we saw do line up with this stuff...hmmm...

Your thots Ivan?

A sure test would be to highly poolish a part of the blade, then etch it to see what develops. That would surely destroy its collectibility, tho.

Keith
 
Ferrous Wheel said:
The more I look at ths one Nasty, the more i wonder if they are forge-folded.

Not all of that grain structure we saw is work scratches.

I can see a few spost of delamination and the dark forge faults we saw do line up with this stuff...hmmm...

Keith
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Keith I think you can take it for granted they are forge folded. The two antiques I got from AC show what are probably similar signs.
 
really? Wow! When I say forge folded, I mean repetitive folding that makes lots layers, a la 'damascus steel'. I just never really held and examined closely the oldies. Impressive. I recall what Sarge said about the oldies and the feel of them. I _totally_ understand this now.

Is it possible for HIKV to cause other symptoms that old khuks fulfil? A new strain of KV, OKV?

Keith
 
Well not that similar.:( It's evident that the blades have been folded on themselves much like many HI blades are folded over on themselves. You can get inclusions and small incomplete welds that produce small cracks that never go anywhere.
But I'm betting that in the mess of khuks bought by AC there's a few khuks that aren't of homogenous steel.:D
 
Hi Guys,

Well Keith yours is a lovely antique,& probaly still usable to, Nasty Yours has a very nice blade shape & is fairly old Imho maybe even just about antique.

It is definatly bone,not ivory, {in the last 2 years I have bought over 200 antique kuks :eek: & can now see the differance at a glance ;) }

Definatly hand forged, but the bone will not be damascus & doubt if the other one is etheir , study the blades at different angles under flourescent light & bright sun to see, if the flaws have unflawed lines that run from the flaws all the way down the blade then Bingo! Dan Harden will offer you $600 for them! :D

Even tourist 1950s junk has flaws in. Flaws dont equal damascus, wish they did ,Id be rich!

Nice find guys ,I like the oldies myself! :)

Spiral
 
um...*both* of these have unflawed lines running lengthwise down them. I didn't notice them until we took them outside when I asked Keith what the lines were.

ps: What age equals antique please?
 
ps: What age equals antique please?

50 to 100 years depending on what you are talking about.

These are nice examples. I actually logged in, saw the post, and was typing an email to Ivan, when I noticed that someone had already snagged them.

You guys are almost as quick as that notorious TISIMI. :eek:

Enjoy,

n2s
 
You guys are almost as quick as that notorious TISIMI.
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Hey...now that's just not nice! ;-)

I think we stand in good company...now if we only find a few DURBAs!
 
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