Price speculation

[foxjaw]

Not that I ever intend to let go of any of my blessed khuks, but I was wondering what the prognoses for value increase might be on HI Khuks. seems like they ought to go up in value as time goes by

Comments ?

 

[Bill Martino]

My guess is the grandkids will have something of considerable value. The time will come when hand made items of any kind are going to cost a bundle. What's a good handforged Bowie made 100 years ago that cost a dollar or two new cost today?

 

[Irregular]

Use them in the interim, they need attention. Even the fancy ones are usable...

Value for grandkids? If they're unlucky, Civilization will have collapsed and they will have something priceless - something they can use for to get food and shelter, and which will last and last and last...

 

[Bill Martino]

And that is a distinct possibility. When money becomes good only to start fires with a ton of it is not worth a decent khukuri.

 

[Walosi]

...for starting fires, and there is no gasoline for chain saws, I will be the only one on my block with tools for gathering firewood. A neighbor, last spring, went the entire circuit trying to borrow an axe to finish the stump of a tree he had lost to our "spring breezes". I loaned him my rigging axe and a ditch cleaner - said he hadn't sen stuff like that in the neighborhood for years.

 

[Bill Martino]

We used to do it the easy way -- black powder, a fuse and a match. Less work and more fun.

 

[BruiseLeee]

Or if someone needs a leaf spring we could melt a few down.

 

[Bill Martino]

Or vice versa.

 

[not2sharp]

At least we don't have to melt the khukuries down to turn them into plows. Just attach a longer handle and you've got one.

n2s

Not that I ever intend to let go of any of my blessed khuks, but I was wondering what the prognoses for value increase might be on HI Khuks.

That's is simple, it just comes down to media time. a few good articles and books and we can find ourselve with a large increase in khukuri collectors. Build your collections now while they're a bargan.

n2s

 

[Bill Martino]

I still want to know what that hand forged Bowie that cost 2 dollars a hundred years ago would cost today. My great grandfather ran a blacksmith shop on Main Steet in Cherokee, Kansas for maybe 40 years. I don't have a single item he made but I'm betting if I had a dozen of the "corn knives" he used to make for less than a dollar I could get a hundred bucks each for them and probably more.