What first got you interested in Kukris?

Yvsa said:
We were being polite and trying not to notice out of sympathy for your family.:rolleyes: :p :D ;)
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Brian
 
Yvsa said:
I don't know when I became or why I've always been interested in most anything with a sharp edge and especially knives and especially knives from all around the world.
My uncle Floyd fought in WW II and was friends with a Ghorka and told me about his knife when I was pretty little.
I never forgot it and then when I saw Atlanta Cutlery's Mil. Issue I got one.
But I knew it wasn't the "real deal" because when I was on my first job several years before a customer showed me a "real one" when we delivered and set up their brand new washing machine much too the dislike of my boss who couldn't say anything because back then the customer was always right.:D :D
Needless to say I was disappointed in the AC offering although it was a decent enough khukuri for what it was.
Atlanta Cutlery at least hadn't lied about it and the one I got was according to what they said the specs were.
As the years passed I kept seeing the ads that Himalayan Imports was putting in some of the knife mags but I just never wrote thinking that they couldn't be the real deal.
Then many years passed and I bought myself a WebTV so that I could get on the Internet.
Found rec:knives and then discovered Knifeforums.com and then Bladeforums.com, the rest is history.:rolleyes: :D :cool:
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Then many years passed and I bought myself a WebTV so that I could get on the Internet. Found rec:knives and then discovered Knifeforums.com and then Bladeforums.com, the rest is history. -- Yvsa
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You are definitely part of history.

Munk called me up and said "hey iBear, guess what I found"?

Yep, he found HI and the rest is a wonderful story. I called up Uncle Bill and he said he would fix me up with two knives that I really liked, both made by Masters of the art. He told me that these would be great, so I provided my credit card number and BINGO, I'm rich with Khuks! Uncle Bill waved his wand, that is his magic at work.
Thanks,
iBear
 
Svashtar said:
My Dad had a beautiful razor sharp khuk he brought back from overseas. He kept it hanging on the wall with a crossed pair of original Sykes / Fairbairn fighting knives. The spine was at least 3/8" thick, and my Dad really knew how to sharpen a knife. It was the single sharpest thing I have ever held. It had a horn handle, and looking back I'm guessing it was 17" or 18". I last held it when I was a teenager, but I recall it was shaped like an AK, but had no fullers that I remember. The scabbard fit like a glove. I learned the correct way to draw a khuk from its scabbard when I was 12 and cut the living hell out of my hand pulling this knife from a tight scabbard incorrectly.

I loved that knife and my Dad used to let me hold it. Along with most of his guns, $20,000 worth of carpentry and mechanics hand and power tools, all of our shared freshwater and deep sea fishing gear and tackle, tents, backpacks and assorted camping gear, several knives he had made by hand, his expensive refracting telescope, AND most of a 3000 volume library with many first editions, it evaporated like magic within a few weeks after he died in 1982, sold off by his useless druggie POS stepson for coke and whores, and moron second wife. (Not that I'm still bitter after almost 25 years! (-:)

I spent many years off and on looking for "that" knife. I had bought a Cold Steel Gurkha Kukri, a Cold Steel ATC, an LTC, and mini-kukri, as well as the Ka-Bar model, looking for just the right kind of feeling knife, when I finally came upon HI in late '03, and knew that I had finally found the right place and realized that I had been buying pale imitations of the real thing all along.

Regards,

Norm
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I loved that knife and my Dad used to let me hold it. Along with most of his guns, $20,000 worth of carpentry and mechanics hand and power tools, all of our shared freshwater and deep sea fishing gear and tackle, tents, backpacks and assorted camping gear, several knives he had made by hand, his expensive refracting telescope, AND most of a 3000 volume library with many first editions, it evaporated like magic within a few weeks after he died in 1982, sold off by his useless druggie POS stepson for coke and whores, and moron second wife. (Not that I'm still bitter after almost 25 years!) --Norm (Svashtar)
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AND why not? I would be bitter! Of course, you are right, better to end off with the animosity and move on to bigger and better things. Anyway, I like your style.
Thanks,
iBear
 
Azis said:
About 30 years ago a marial arts teacher visited the school I was training at he was a very interesting man from Nepal. He showed me his Khukuri and we started to talk, we became friends and soon I left the school I was training at and became his student he taught me how to use it and a lot more
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WOW, a cool story! That is special. You werre very fortunate.
Thanks,
iBear
 
what got me started was a little 10" AK non HI that i got in a trade from Leatherman aka Dwayne--been a member of bladeforums for along time and i really liked the design--started spending more time in the HI Imports forum and the rest is history-- :eek: :) :eek:
 
I first read about khukuris when I was in the 7th or 8th grade--not sure exactly, but I saw them in a knife catalog I think--Atlanta Cutlery probably. Anyway, I thought they were cool, but I sort of forgot about them for many years until I started hanging out here at Bladeforums. I ended up reading some of Cliff Stamp's reviews, and eventually checked out the cantina, and then filed it away in the back of my mind for a few years. I don't know what exactly started me actively reading the HI forum and purchasing my first khukuri. In retrospect, I sometimes wonder what took me so long. :D
 
Yvsa said:
We were being polite and trying not to notice out of sympathy for your family.:rolleyes: :p :D ;)
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Thanks Yvsa.

Yeah, they've come to only see the sides of me that make sense to them... better for everyone that way... :D :rolleyes: :yawn:


Interesting how big a role Cold Steel and Atlanta Cutlery had in many people's path to the kukri. Something to be said for that.


bamboo
 
Bill Marsh said:
Bet you wished that Sredni Vashtar could have had a visit with them! Chomp Chomp! "Do one thing for me Sredni Vashtar." I loved that story when I was a sickly child.
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Bill Marsh said:
Bet you wished that Sredni Vashtar could have had a visit with them! Chomp Chomp! "Do one thing for me Sredni Vashtar." I loved that story when I was a sickly child.
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Just seeing this 4 days late; I first read the story myself when I was 12 or so. You are only the second person that has recognized the name that I know of.

The story encompasses one of everyone's favorite themes, the cold-blooded dispensing of justice against the petty soul-killing oppressors of the world. I still read it every once in a while for a lift. I love the last line where Conradin slowly butters himself another piece of forbidden toast while the ladies outside scream over the remains of his cousin.

Regards,

Norm
 
Bamboo said:
Thanks Yvsa.

Yeah, they've come to only see the sides of me that make sense to them... better for everyone that way... :D :rolleyes: :yawn:


Interesting how big a role Cold Steel and Atlanta Cutlery had in many people's path to the kukri. Something to be said for that.


bamboo
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Yeah, they've come to only see the sides of me that make sense to them... better for everyone that way...
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We like your style..... obviously!
Thanks,
iBear
 
I've listened to RantRadio shows for about 3 years now, Sean Kennedy had a show and started talking about his newest 18" AK and told the story of the very special tarwar he ordered for an army buddy (pics of him on the HI site even). He swore up and down about how great the khuk's and really apreciated HI.


Took me a while to find the place and get down to this khukuri buisiness but I got the virus, A Gelbu special 2 sarge's and a trishul decker (thnx raghorn).
 
well i always had a fascination with all things sharp and pointy. :) Especially curved swords. The first curved sword I saw (around 4 years old) was a yataghan and then a falcatta that was wicked looking. So got some books at the library when I was around 12 to find out who used these swords. Got reading about alex the great and his extensive adventures and then saw a kukri in two movies, big trouble in little china, and cyborg.... well I fell in love with the thing. Then when forums starting getting popular on the internet I found bladeforums and then HI :)
 
I was part of a top-secret Army unit, the Special Operations Border Service.
(SOB's)
And we was needing a naif to cut attack dawgs that the mexcian speshal forces were usin on the border.
Those daugs could jummp fourteeen feat in tha air and bite your nek off!
So, my commandor told me to find the bestest dog-choppin naifs I could get, and I found this place.
 
DannyinJapan said:
I was part of a top-secret Army unit, the Special Operations Border Service.
(SOB's)
And we was needing a naif to cut attack dawgs that the mexcian speshal forces were usin on the border.
Those daugs could jummp fourteeen feat in tha air and bite your nek off!
So, my commandor told me to find the bestest dog-choppin naifs I could get, and I found this place.
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A chopper is as a chopper does!

Ain't that the truth?

iBear
 
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