One of the best fancy khukuris I've seen in 20 years. Pix.

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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Forgive the pix -- some okay, some poor, but maybe not so bad for my first test collage.
This is a special order 18 inch WWII. It was done so well I thought it deserved a little story. The khukuri was made by Sanu and is one of his best efforts to date. Sanu has learned that unlike the other production oriented shops he has worked at before quality really does pay at BirGorkha in the form of generous hard cash bonuses.

The handle was exquisitely carved by our young Newari neighbor whose name has slipped too far down into my memory banks to call it up. The engraving was excellently done by Bura's oldest son, Bhimsen. That kid is coming on strong -- very strong! The scabbard was done by the sarki with no name in excellent fashion.

Next to the HI kothimoda this is the best fancy khukuri I have seen come out of Nepal in 20 years. It actually belongs under my bed but we had a customer's name on this one and he has been waiting a long time so it is in the air right now.

I may order one of these for myself. Is anybody else interested? Price will be $225 as shown.
 
Beautiful....simply beautiful. I may order one of these farther down the line but for now unfortunately I am attempting to keep this infection of mine under control...HIKV, Rusty that's what I'm talking about.

Along the lines of a custom make though Uncle Bill, I was wondering if there was a way to have a lanyard hole made into a khukuri itself while it was being made. I was thinking of a full tang blade but with a hole through the the tang near the bottom and matching holes through the handle. I'm hoping to start a shipboard job in the near future and wish to have a khukuri handy in case a sharp blade is needed, and from my experiences it is always good to have a lanyard on any tool that you're using so that it doesn't fall over the side and into the drink if you lose your grip. That's my only info request so far.
Thanks for the beautiful pix
 
Hi Uncle Bill: -- I would go for one of these but I have to stick to my budget for a while.
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Bill,
A WORK OF ART LIKE THAT " BELONGS" TO JOHN,RAY,OR BURKE!Or under your bed with the
Ivory "MASTERPIECES"!
jim
 
Pant! Lust! Drool!

Tell the customer the forum will praise him highly if he/she takes some good pictures or at least puts the blade and handle separately on a flat-bed scanner. If the customer doesn't want to mess with editing, but can get a couple of 300 dpi unedited .jpg files (handle end and chopping end) that are on the "too dark" side (as opposed to the "white-out with flare" side), and can e-mail them, I may be able to turn them into something worth posting.

BTW, that ivory masterpiece, where, as I recall, the blade has developed a patina, should be a relatively easy subject for the scanner. I use a legal-size Microtek ScanMaker X6EL. It won't handle a whole 18" khukuri at once, of course, but a 15" diagonal will fit.


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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
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Wow!

If I didn't already have a special order in, I'd get one. Very pretty engravings. I like it alot.

Dave
 
This is the khukuri I got yesterday!! When I first saw this on, I thought to myself, "Now that is my idea of a custom knife." I regret that I don't have the means to take and post any pics. Hopefully, someone who can will order one.

Bob
 
I don't get it. Everybody else complains about how difficult it is to take a good pic of polished steel, and they have no trouble with carved wood at all -- yet I have seldom seen pix of an engraved blade as good as these and the carved handle came out blurry! (By the way, did everybody notice the correct usage of "pic" =singular and "pix" =plural?? Just another helpful hint from The Grammar Disciplinarian....)

Hey, Bill ... is there any chance you could get together with someone else -- anyone at all ought to do -- let him take the handle pix and you take the blades??? Everybody will fight for the chance to collaborate with you if you can take pix of polished blades as good as those consistently....

-Cougar :{)
 
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