What is the purpose of those two mini knives?

The sharp one is used as a small utility knife (I use it as a skinning knife for small game), and the blunt one is used to burnish the blade.
 
The unsharpened one is the Karda. It is super hard steel used to remove burrs and to straighten the edge of the kukri. The other is a small utility blade for delicate tasks.
 
As luck would have it one of my first blades axidentally came with two chackmas so I had a heck of a time trying to figure this out? It was like trying to find out where to throw the "h" in on Gurkha, Lachhu, Kanchhi, Bhakta, etc. Thats a hard one for us westerners:D
 
Amen to that brotha. I've been struggling with Kanchhi too. I noticed in one post that auntie spelled it Kanchi, so I figured if she can mess it up I can goof once in awhile too ya know?

Now I'm trying to remember the other one and failing miserably. Copti? Kopti, I'll have to go look again.
 
Akapennypincher, Since so many have already explained the blades all I will say is chakmaks work wonders on blades of many types not just khuks.
I have a couple extra I had made for me and I use them on almost all of my blades and they keep my daily carries all in great shape.

Basically they are the same as an OLD butcher's steel not the new ones that have diamond encrusting but the smooth ones.

Steeling is often recommended to be performed immediately before or after using a knife, and can be done daily. Knives are rarely sharpened that frequently because it removes too much steel. A traditional smooth honing steel, like a chakmak, is of no use if the edge is truely blunt, because it removes no material; instead it fixes deformations along the edge of a sharp blade. In the Western world the blades of butchers are generally softer so they don't shatter but do deform when encountering bones. Steeling reshapes the blade by "pushing" the steel back straight. In East Asia, Japan especially, harder Steel is used these days by butchers so a Japanese blade does not deform the same way so is usually sharpened instead of being steeled. Basically though for any blade made from a high-carbon/low alloy tool steel, steeling is a great "mid work" refresher which doesn't constantly remove steel from the edge but straightens any small damage.
 
Maybe Ahlzeimers? It can strike at any time. I keep scheduling appointments but always forget about them.

There's so much to remember in life just on our beloved Khuks alone I'm surprised I remember my name.


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Steve
 
Bawanna said:
Maybe Ahlzeimers? It can strike at any time. I keep scheduling appointments but always forget about them.

There's so much to remember in life just on our beloved Khuks alone I'm surprised I remember my name.


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Steve
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LMAO Steve...;) I think it is age related. I keep getting older and keep forgetting more and more things. I tell my boss that all the time lol. I told him I have kukri models and ballistics tables to memorize. I cant keep up on all this I.T. stuff anymore. I don't think he appreciated that but hey whatcha gonna do.
 
Those little chakmas and kardas can vary wildly too. I've got some chakmas that are for burnishing in name only. They're butter soft, but they do make good pokey-scrapey tools. I actually have an old horn handled chakma that Uncle Bill sent me with an AKB back in '02. It's too soft to do the job, but it's fairly large. My Leatherman MUT has a flat slot in the back of the really nice ballistic nylon pouch it came with that is supposed to house the Ar sight wrench.

Well, I don't ever use the pouch for my MUT since it has a pocket clip. Instead, my Super Tool rides in there and I keep that big ol' Chakma in there for work. Basically, anything that I want to poke and dig out on the job, I use the chakma for. Scraping duct tape off of metal, digging the mud out of my boots before I get into my truck, and even scoring little cut lines into aluminum. Nice little do-it-all beater:)

Kardas can behave the same way. I've gotten some really rough ones, but I've had a couple of them show up that were so nice I made pocket sheathes for them to use them as utility cutters.

It's always important to remember that many times these accessory knives are made by the apprentices to the Kami. They're just learning how the steel is going to behave;)
 
Could you put a word in for me. I want to be an apprentice cept I have this huge fear or red hot stuff that can burn ya and I need a bench, kills me just watching em sit on the floor and work.

They must be very agile with very good backs or something.

I got nothing but the utmost respect for them, what they can do and how they do it boggles my infinitely small mind.
 
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