What's the most outrageous thing you've done to your Hi khukuri?

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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I'll start this with a couple of stories that have been posted and one that hasn't.

A pal (?) of Will Kwan's dropped Will's 15 inch Ang Khola from a height of 4 feet, point first into a concrete floor. The AK survived.

Cliff's little (? -- 6 foot, six inches) brother dropped Cliff's 15 inch AK down the side of a rock cliff. The buttcap became loosened and Cliff repaired it with epoxy. The AK is alive and well.

Don Patton of TN was chopping up some scrap lumber and noticed three small indentations in the blade. Upon investigation Don discovered he had chopped through a bolt hidden from view. The AK was burnished and has been going for two years since this incident.

Anybody else got a story?

Uncle Bill
 
Well, switch "outrageous" with "dumb" and my story might fit in here!

This morning after work after finishing my bedtime Lager I decided that I needed to chop something. (the AK was giving me those big, sad eyes. What could I do?) Several large pine trees in my front yard were being taken over by poison ivy vines. ( 1 to 2 inches thick at the bases) I decided that these would make fine chopping material and proceded to hack them to bits. The trees were grateful, the AK was grateful and so far I am rash free! Outrageous, no. Stupid? Yea!

Come on Cliff, I know you must have some good stories lurking somewhere!

[This message has been edited by Jaeger (edited 16 April 1999).]
 
Rusty sent his to me.

Awhile ago when I was testing that bunch of knives I wanted to see how they would hold up under prolonged strain so I found a tree that was a little bigger than the steering wheel of a car. The only problem was that it was quite high and when it fell it would crash into a bunch of others and I didn't see any reason to mangle them.

Solution - tree topping. The only problem was that there was no low lying branches. Solution - chop the 20" Ang Khola as hard as I could into the tree and then jump up on it. Problem solved. Using the 15" Ang Khola to chop off the top of the tree climb back down and finish the tree off.

Its not a knife its a multi-tool.

-Cliff
 
Ummm, Cliff, when you talk about outrageous or stupid, was that:

#1) my sending mine to you and expecting to see them again in this life?

or was it

#2)your using the 20" AK as a step ladder?

or was it both of the above?

I'm teasing, but it is gut wrenching to box one of the HI's up and send it off. ( I do know how anguishing this is from personal experience ).

I bought an Ang Khola blem with the intention of giving it away to my best friend. I was going to wait to send it until after I sent Bill payment for it, then found I had to ship it out in the next day's mail before I got too attached. I did mail Bill payment a day or two later.

I know you'll be strong whem it comes time to return mine to me. Just put yourself in my shoes and remind yourself of how privileged you have been to have been entrusted with them. ROFLMAO. Rusty
 
Dropping knives is not something I do a lot and I usually do not hand people my knives if I think they are likely to drop them. Anyways, may Mad Dog YFA 3 (tanto style) was dropped. Again it hit point first on a thickly carpeted floor with concrete underneath. The point was bent over a bit near the spine but not very seriously.

While I was burishing my kukuri I thought I'd try fixing the YFA 3 tip with my chakma. I did not expect to be very successful since the edge on the YFA 3 is very hard. The YFA 3 scratched the chakma very slightly, but after a while the bend was worked out and the tip looks like it should.

How hard is that chakma?

Will
 
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