Thought I should put this in the sharpening part of the forum, where it's most relevant.
As a little bit of background, I'm a designer who's just returned from a trip to Nepal working with KHHI. I had a great time over there and got a lot of nice stuff done, though the best thing was hanging out with all the kamis and seeing them work. In this video I do a run down on some of the working knives these guys use over here. The majority of the work these knives do is chopping and carving the khukuri handles roughly into shape and the second knife in this video looks like it's seen a lot more work than most knives. You always see people posting old knives of theirs with recurves from getting sharpened over and over and over again. But this one might just take the cake.
[video=youtube;CHX5uHy90EA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHX5uHy90EA[/video]
In all honesty though, I think there's plenty which are used harder than this. Sure, it's been used every day cutting up wood to make khukuri handles but I know for a fact that it hasn't been used for that long, ten years max. The owner says that this is due to the knife "losing metal" every time it goes into the wood. I attribute the dramatic loss of metal to the fact that they sharpen these things with proper full sized metal files and probably get rid of 10x what they need to every time they sharpen. That and that the metal this far into the middle of the original blade is probably incredibly soft.
So what about you guys? Think that's the most heavily sharpened knife you've ever seen? Got a better example? I'd love to see.
As a little bit of background, I'm a designer who's just returned from a trip to Nepal working with KHHI. I had a great time over there and got a lot of nice stuff done, though the best thing was hanging out with all the kamis and seeing them work. In this video I do a run down on some of the working knives these guys use over here. The majority of the work these knives do is chopping and carving the khukuri handles roughly into shape and the second knife in this video looks like it's seen a lot more work than most knives. You always see people posting old knives of theirs with recurves from getting sharpened over and over and over again. But this one might just take the cake.
[video=youtube;CHX5uHy90EA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHX5uHy90EA[/video]
In all honesty though, I think there's plenty which are used harder than this. Sure, it's been used every day cutting up wood to make khukuri handles but I know for a fact that it hasn't been used for that long, ten years max. The owner says that this is due to the knife "losing metal" every time it goes into the wood. I attribute the dramatic loss of metal to the fact that they sharpen these things with proper full sized metal files and probably get rid of 10x what they need to every time they sharpen. That and that the metal this far into the middle of the original blade is probably incredibly soft.
So what about you guys? Think that's the most heavily sharpened knife you've ever seen? Got a better example? I'd love to see.
Really shows how much use those things get. Amazing! Thanks again. 