Salyan pic.

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Just in case those interested don't look in the other thread I'm duplicating my last post here.
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Sorry for any inconvienience.
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I swiped this out of the archives from one of Uncle Bill's posts.
This was the 1st pic of the Salyan.
And here is the URL for the complete thread.
http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/000331.html

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Here is the 18 inch Salyan. It is really about 20 inches in length. 2 & 15/16 wide (we asked for 3). Almost 5/8 inch thick and weighs about 3.5 lbs. I view this as nearly a 20 inch AK but without the spine.

This is not exactly what I had in mind but I realize that I put two constraints on the manufacture of this knife which made it come out as it has. One, I specified a Salyan style with a width of 3 inches. The kamis used information from photos and dimensional sketches they had on file of our logo Salyan khukuri and tried to scale these up. Shop 1 is a far piece from Salyan and there are no kamis from Salyan so they used what they had. They determined that an 18 incher 3 inches wide simply could not be made to Salyan specs so upped this to 20 and they said this was still not enough. My 7/16 thickness did not match a scaled thickness so they scaled it up as required.

The result is what we have here. My mistake was making them stick to a strict Salyan design (notice the Salyan cho). Next time I will know better.

Anyway here it is if anybody still wants one email me. I know Cliff has one on order and he will love this knife but not everybody is a yeti.

The 12 inch Sirupati at top is for comparison purposes.

Uncle Bill



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I'd have to say this Khukuri reminds me of a hippopatamus; it's big, heavy, too wide, ungainly, unatractive, and can do massive amounts of damage without much effort. To each his own I suppose. To those who own one; do you find it's beauty lies in it's performance? I'm just perplexed as to why this model has a following here
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Mccld: gotta be sheer perversity.LOL

It's defiance of the norms we've come to accept, sort of a khukuri version of folksinger Pete Seeger's "Little Boxes".

Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky,

Little boxes little boxes, little boxes little boxes all the same.

Here's a red one, and a green one, and a blue one and a yellow one,

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same."

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This is not the best version of the salayan. If I could find the pics of Will Kwans' now that was a knife! Mine also looks a darn sight better too
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Measured mine.

Circumference at the fattest spot, an inch or so behind the boster, 5.5". Circumference at the smallest, 4.4"

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I reworked the handle on mine so I could hold onto it.
And I still have to admire the kamis sense of perspective.
When viewed from a few feet away the Super Salyan looks to be the same exact proportions as the logo khukuri, but I've said that before.
And it makes one helluva wood splitter just as Will says.
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