Shop Khukuri Testing

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Auntie sent me these pictures and asked me to post them to share with you all.
These our our kami's doing the aforementioned testing on our khukuri before shipment to Auntie.

Rajkumar:

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Lachu:

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Anil:

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Tirtha:

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This is way super cool. Being able to put a picture to the name is great.

I'm proud to own a few rajkumar blades and a Tirtha Pen Knife as well. Kind of like meeting the maker.

Thanks Auntie and Karda for making this happen.

I don't have an Anil yet, something to hunt for I guess.
 
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Boy am I the dumbest new guy on the planet. I meant the right thing my flipping fingers just didn't do what I told them too.

1000 apologies unless you really want to be Auntie, but that would be like super weird ya know?
 
I can't get over the kami's always wearing shorts and sandals all the time, even in the pictures of the villagers with little fires and hunks of steel for an anvil.

Seems like long pants and steel toed shoes would be the order of the day with sharp things and hot stuff all over the place.
 
Bawanna said:
I can't get over the kami's always wearing shorts and sandals all the time, even in the pictures of the villagers with little fires and hunks of steel for an anvil.

Seems like long pants and steel toed shoes would be the order of the day with sharp things and hot stuff all over the place.
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In the video Red Flower took a couple of years back you will see a kami holding hot steel with his bare hands as he forges it.


Bill tried a QA program like this before. It worked for a while. So few knives failed that the kamis grew to see it as a waste of time and stopped doing it. Hopefully that does not happen this time. One potential solution would be to implement proof marks, as are found on fine British shotguns. The proof mark could be a metal stamp that is kept by the QA manager. The proof mark could be applied if and only if the QA manager was willing to stake his reputation and his job on the fact that the knife had been tested to HI quality standards.

The presence of the proof mark would add value to a knife. A knife without the mark is worth less to HI, and kamis should be compensated accordingly.
 
I own a Thirta M43 and 15" CAK. Great to see actual photos of their maker.

Thanks for sharing these photos Karda.

Much appreciated. :)
 
Cool photos! I love the commitment to quality! I really respect Himalayan Imports. I've been aware of HI for three years now, and since I've brought my credit card debt down from $16,000 dollars to $2,700 dollars in the past 5 years, it looks like I may start my collection soon. Not that they aren't priced fairly. :D
 
Thank you for the help, Karda
 
Howard Wallace said:
In the video Red Flower took a couple of years back you will see a kami holding hot steel with his bare hands as he forges it.


Bill tried a QA program like this before. It worked for a while. So few knives failed that the kamis grew to see it as a waste of time and stopped doing it. Hopefully that does not happen this time. One potential solution would be to implement proof marks, as are found on fine British shotguns. The proof mark could be a metal stamp that is kept by the QA manager. The proof mark could be applied if and only if the QA manager was willing to stake his reputation and his job on the fact that the knife had been tested to HI quality standards.

The presence of the proof mark would add value to a knife. A knife without the mark is worth less to HI, and kamis should be compensated accordingly.
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The Kamis no longer have the option of not testing.
For those that missed the video previously Here is a link: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/785433-A-virtual-tour-of-HI-in-Nepal
 
I wish I had the pics. from a 30 foot tree 4 inches thru the center. I used mine for yesterday.
Made short work of it for me. Instaed of firing up my chain saw.
Was not sure I would ever use it ,glad I did ,never even scuffed it .
 
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