Speaking of Durba...

the flags on my Kesar Chitlangi, purchased around March or early April of 2002, are pointed towards the edge the blade, the flag pole parallel to the blade. This is different from all your samples. The lines are also done in segments.

I don't like the initials in english. They look like a school boy in shopclass did them and don't belong on these khukuris. They remind me of when I borrowed a scriber and put my DL number on my stereo components so they wouldn't be stolen as easily.

But oh well.


munk
 
Yeah Munk, if they were always the same we wouldn't have anything to talk about :-)

I agree about the english initials.
 
Thanks everyone, this is great stuff!

From what I've seen thus far, the marks on my "twins" (21" chitlangi and 21" GS) match the ones shown on mPisi's Durba GRS and the pic Stephen sent me of a Durba chiruwa AK. :D

The other two I have that are marked with a flag - a chiruwa AK and an M43 - are exactly as described in Munk's previous post. They look like the ones shown on mPisi's pics of a Kesar WWII and chiruwa AK. Edit: except rotated such that the top of the flagpole points to the tip of the blade.

The one with the trisul and "K.S." - I'll venture a guess that maybe it's a Kesar blade as well.

I agree with Bruise's remark about initials in Devangari. Kumar marked a villager I have with a Devangari letter above the star of David, it's a beautiful mark.
 
Apologies for the picture quality. Is it reasonable to presume that the chitlangi is a Durba?
 
My two cents worth:

1)Bassd On their own merits, a kamis's mark appeears to be a Western imposition. I say be grateful that they entertain our desires to the extent that they do.

2) While fully recognizing the above, I think that stamping a blade with "american/english" initials is quite aesethetically inferior to the indigenous alphabet. Devangari is way better.

3) Considering the authenticity of these blades I think using the western alphabet looks kinda cheesey.

But the kamis do what they will, don't know if anything we say matters, the blades speak for themselves.
 
I asked for first name in Devanagari. This is what we get. Fir is right. The kamis think marking the blades is a crazy and useless effort. "It's just a khukuri. If it works or even if it doesn't what possible difference can it make who might make it? The proof is in the knife itself."
 
If it doesn't make any difference who made the knife why have a head Kami?

munk
 
I agree that the blades speak for themselves, but in this era of mass-manufactured hardware I like the extra human element that a maker's mark adds to a fine, handcrafted tool.

Or maybe I'm just a geek. :rolleyes:
 
because firkin,if it is all selfless, than why have that distinction? The answer is that it is not all that selfless,and that real men take real pride in their individual abilities. This one makes horns fittings the best,and that one one a strong blade, this one finishes nicely...etc.

Rag, if you're a geek you're a good geek. I'm a geek.

munk
 
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