Sirupati Khukuri

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djweaponx

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Hey everyone :)
Can anyone who owns the 18" Sirupati Khukuri tell me your experiences with the fine peicae of steel. It looks like a martial artist dream. How is the cutting and chopping power? It look like it would give good slicing power also. I bet I could pull off some nice forms with this baby.

Thanx
Weapon X
 
Rest assured that with the Sirupati in 18" or 20" you would not go under armed any where in the world that I can think of.
I have used my 20" a lot because the 18" I had went with one of Sarge's men to Afghanistan. I have another 18" now and it has been worked out like the first one. This one is made my Kumar and I would stake my life on the blade not to fail. Even the little 15" is a good fighter, very quick and a slicer for sure. I don't know about the Martial Arts thing with the knives. I have never used them for that. I imagine that the eighteen inch would be a good choice. I don't practice that stuff but I can swish mine pretty quick and you can sure hear it when it moves through the air. Again with a Kumar blade you are probably going to get one of the best knife handles around. Like Uncle Bill says. Sher and Kumar just make good handles to go with good knives. I love all my khuks but the 18" Sirupati isn't left idle too long around my house.:)
 
Never held an 18" Sirupati. To my taste the 15" is a bit light and the 20" a bit heavy. What does that make the 18"? Theoretically about perfect but... are the kamis trying to make a stretched 15", a compact 20" or something in between. Something in between would be beautiful. But then you'd thing the 16.5 WW2 vs. the 18" WW2 the 18" would have a 1/2 longer handle and an inch longer blade. The 18" I have seems to have a half inch longer blade and an inch longer handle.

Uncle Bill sells these as a work of love, providing skilled craftsmen a means to make ( for them ) outrageous money, and sells them here for under what you'd expect. The good part is it builds him up good karma. The bad part is it drives him crazy at least once a day.

Look, there isn't a bad one in the lineup. The ones he sells as blems are gobbled up in an eye blink. It just depends on what you are looking for, and why. One of these days you will pick up a khuk that makes you feel as if there was and invisible firewire or usb connection in the palm of your hand that mates with another connector in the khuk's handle. You'll know how Arthur Pendragon felt with Excalibur in his hand. You'll know there is still magic in the world despite those with no life left in their souls who deny it.

Got to take a break and fondle some of my little darlings.
 
Take the following as coming from someone who has no martial arts or knife fighting experience. Also, 6'3", large hands, not too weak.

I have a a 20" siru that I love as a chopper, but wouldn't consider as fighting knife. Just doesn't 'start' quickly enough. Once it gets going, though...

Haven't held any of the shorter ones. Yet.

My 21" Gelbu Special, on the other hand, is very quick, and I'm guessing that the 18" would be lightning-fast.

Get them both. You can't have too many khuks.
 
The only things I can add towhat I have already said, That baby is a mover and a shaker, and will slice long, deep, and continuously. And a pretty mean chopper too. :) :D
 
I have done no real chopping with my Bura 18" Sirupati. I can tell you it fits the hand well, Is light enough to really move and has enough clout completely chop a 1'x1'x8" box through (and part of the way into the box I was sitting it on. :D When the weather clears and spring chore are worked I will have more info.
 
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