Names for individual Khukris?

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Nicholas

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Having run out of anything substantial to say, during my product-purchase research, I'll just ask a silly question: has anybody given their Khuk(s) a name?

Homey, exotic, reverent, ridiculous?

I ask, because I find that giving familiar objects names inclines me to take better care of them (my bicycle has a name, for example, since I ride it every day). Given how much everyone here loves their purchases, have any of you tried the same approach? Because I know that I will.......
 
Since I now have a matched pair of 21.5 Chitlangis, I thought of naming them.

Haven't decided on anything yet though.
 
Not all of them, only those 'special' blades that silently tell you about themsleves or that they want you do use them to do... :eek:

First time I held my Bhariab it yelled at me to cut something with it: I immediately obliged by cutting its free-standing packaging box almost into half. No surprise I called it Chopper.

I have a blade that just jumps out of its sheaf when touched; when I opened the box it arrived in it was so impatient waiting to be unwrapped that slipped out of its packaging as if by its own power.

No s-l-o-w reveal with this one ...it just dropped out handle first into my right hand. I call it Impatience .

Two of the three folk who have hefted my Giant Chitlangi Bowie have immediately commented "This would take someone's head off with one strike!" So it got called Strike 1.

I am getting to the stage that the blades which don't have names will be the ones that I will be selling to try to find more of those that do!;)
 
Pretty much all of mine get some sort of nickname. The only one's that I actually call by their name are Uber (as in uber-chopper) my 22" GRS and Moses my Kerambit.

Uber got his name because...well he's the largest khuk I own. Many a' tree struck down by Mother Nature has meet their reaper in the form of Uber.

Moses is a very thick edged HI kermabit from the second run right after they came out. He's probably my most carried HI product as I rarely go anywhere without him on my person somewhere. Shape as a razor but edged like an axe, I once commented on his cutting ability as "parting of the red meat". Our very own Mike (aka Ad Astra) said, "Why not call him Moses?"
It stuck:)
 
I had to ask, since i've named my stuff, from time to time. For example, I nicknamed a Mag-Lite flashlight, "Maggie," as a pun, and a long, Renaissance sidesword that I own, "Trapper," after it kept getting caught on stuff when i wore it. My bike is a longer story; I won't bore you with the details.

I'm thinking of something classically Greek for my M-43, when I get it. You see, as another kid who saw Clash of the Titans growing up, I read further, and found reference to Perseus getting a "sickle-shaped sword" for his mission. I'll bet you Midas's touch that this was a khukuri precursor, so I may name the blade accordingly: maybe Perseus ("Percy" for short), or Andromeda ("Andy"), or something like that. I won't know until it gets here.

Thanks for indulging my silly question.
 
Nicholas said:
I'm thinking of something classically Greek for my M-43, when I get it. You see, as another kid who saw Clash of the Titans growing up, I read further, and found reference to Perseus getting a "sickle-shaped sword" for his mission. I'll bet you Midas's touch that this was a khukuri precursor, so I may name the blade accordingly: maybe Perseus ("Percy" for short), or Andromeda ("Andy"), or something like that. I won't know until it gets here.

Thanks for indulging my silly question.
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That would have been a reference to the greek "khukuri" called a kopis. IMO the kopis/falcata/machaera/yataghan blades of the West aren't necessarily the ancestor of the khukuri, rather they probably both share a common ancestor dating back to the days of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. It's also possible the development of these blades is an example of great minds thinking alike too, and they developed independently.

If you were to take your H.I. khukuri back in time to the age of classical Greece, they would recognize it as a kopis, albeit an odd one.

H.I makes their interpretation of the Iberian falcata, and they also make a blade very similar to the greek kopis. They call it a Bhairab:

HI_kopis.jpg
 
I know all that, but I suspected that throwing around the terms, khopsh (the Egyptian version), kopis(Greece), and machaira(Macedonia) would make me sound like too much of a name-dropping smarty-pants, so I abbreviated it all to "Khukuri precursor." After all, the point was to share my oddball train of thought about naming, more than anything else.

And I *do* accept the above weapons (excepting the falcata, which was literally in a different direction), as being an influence on the Khukuri's development......just one among several. The kora, I think, had some influence, too.
 
I'm really bummed nobody has made a true battle-worthy egyptian khopsh. An H.I. version would be magnificent.

H.I.'s "movie model" comes pretty close to being a sappara though. It's even about the same size as some of the originals at about 21" OAL.
 
If you really want a neat-o khopsh, let's make it in bronze! (Which would be out of the kamis' training, I suspect, so we might have to do it ourselves.)
 
Nicholas said:
If you really want a neat-o khopsh, let's make it in bronze!
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Snipped:
Quite some time ago we had a very interesting member who popped in an out of both HI Forums from time to time, and whom, for the life of me, I cannot recall his screen name.........:o :mad:

He had/has a very extensive collection of HI Khukuri's among other things... (Damn but I wish I could remember his screen name! It's right on the tip of my tongue!!!)
and he went over near the Sandbox for some reason and ordered and got a bronze Kopesh and it was indeed Beautiful!:thumbup: :cool: :D




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