the forward half of the blade edge was approx 1/8inch thick all the way to the point.
well i had a coffee then decided its no good just lookin get on with it.
i layed the blade flat edge faceing me and selected a dremel grind stone about 1/2inch thick by 1/2 inch
round, not sure what grit, probably medium by the way it removed metal, it was orange in colour.
i proceeded from the handle end of the blade,BEGINNING FROM THE CUT OUT BIT, up to the point making a 1/2 inch wide light groove all the way.
i then started from the beginnig lightly grinding from right to left, doing a section 3inchs at a time proceeding up to the point then starting again. slowly angling the stone as i went, so as to make a convex edge,to about the middle of the edge. i checked frequently looking at the edge so i new when
1/2 way. i then turned the blade over and proceeded to do the same.
i then held the blade edge up and looked along it up to the point, it looked pretty good to me.
i then selected three grades of emery paper, medium,fine and extra fine. i got a dremel sanding drum disk, approx 1/2 by 1/2 inch an cut strip of medium emery to fit nicely round the little drum, then super glued it straight on, i waited about a minute, then blade faceing me ,sanded up and down the new ground dection until satisfied,then turned over did same to other side.
then cut fine piece emery to suit drum,then superglued it straight over the old piece, waited min then blade edge faceing me, again sanded up and down towards the point,till satisfied, then turned over and did the same to other side. then finaly fit a extra fine piece of emery to the drum and do same again till you are happy with look of blade. i will say here some times i changed the emery cloth 2 times as it got worn down so use common sense.
again looked at blade edge on looks great, the funny thing is you end up with a dual blade khukri.
the first 6inches or so are flatground,and the front 6inches are convex ground. i blended the two sections together as i went ,so you cannot see a joining of the two, they just meld into each other.
both end up razor sharp after sharpening.
lastly sharpen and hone the new ground section remembering to sharpen as for convex blade.
then lightly touch up the back section as for flat ground blade.
maybee i have inadvertantly invented the dual blade khukri. i dont know, what a fluke.
it looks great an cuts great. i have done the chop test in the back, same iron hard wood,
but this time,what a difference.
the front convex shaped section cuts like wildfire, i also did as yvsa told me and twistd the blade at first tentitivly, then becomeing more savage as i went on gaining confidence.
the rear section cuts well to and slices and dices finely as its thinner profile permits. the front section is as i said a magnificent chopper, and slicer to ,just heavyer slices.
i finished of by throwing different targets into the air, so as to see the actual slice, and cutting abitlity.
5 big lemons of the lemon tree were sliced through with just a flick of the wrist, boy is this knife good.
next thinner tree branches, started of with thin stuff about 1/8 inch to see if it would cut them of easily istead of pushing them away as they were so wispy, but no slice cleanly little effort, same applied right up to about inch thick clean cut. larger stuff up to 2-3 inch heavier swing no problems straight through.
decided the final test should be something with meat an bones, the dog looked at me lookin at him funny, and decided inside was a safer place. heee heee.
i persuaded the wife it would be a good idea to test the meat choppin capability of the khuks as we might need to rely on them when we go to tassie in 9days time.
very dubiously she surrendered the chook, [chicken for you non australians] that she was preparing to cook for tea, it was going to be chopped up with the cleaver anyway soooooooooo.
i washed and cleaned the khuk, and hung the chook ceremoniusly on the washing line.
meanwhile while the missus wasant lookin i stuffed a nice big steak up its bum, as i wanted to simulate more closely a large meat an bone target with no empty space in between.
i was very carefull attathing it with three lenghts of meat wrapping twine. so as when it got chopped hopefully none would land on the ground,
[ i didant voice this fear to the wife as she might not let the test procced]
well now was the big momment i lined up on the chook, i had decided on a large chop left to right,OOPS I MEAN RIGHT TO LEFT.
which would take out the wing bones ,chest, meat, then on through the steak and exit sonewhere through the thigh bones. the wife of course had other visions of how it would end up cut in half.
i wasant gonna tell her my plan. he he
the other reason for the right TO left swing was of course because i am left handed, and i wanted the khukri swingin away from me if it did chop the chook up.
weel murphys law took over didant it, i swung a mighty blow the chook was chopped cleanly in half like a surgeon had done it with a laser, i was happy you think ???.
yes and no, i was elated at the cutting ability of my khuk, BUTTTT
i had chopped through everything string an all, one half of the chook was in the dirt.
guess which bit i get for tea.
my wife has seen the funny side of it an is going to share her bit with me,an the dogs are happy to,they get the other bit.
wife cant figure out why the butcher would have put a bit of steak inside the chook. i just acted surprised an said eh well we got a piece of steak as well as the chook for tea to now.
so all that ends well is great. i will now inform bill i dont want another khuk i am keepin this one.
