What's up with recurves?

[Tiiiiiiiim]

Recurves happen when knives are not sharpened well.Especially forged kitchen knives
with integral bolster\guards.That being said it can give an advantage in draw(towards you) cutting of rope etc. A Kukri does the same thing away from you and on an
opponents neck .

I think the re-curve in a kukri is more for weight distribution.

 

[mordi]

True Tiiiiiiim for camp knife\ax purposes . From what I know the Gurkhas liked to get opponents necks into that recurve and continue from there.

 

[Tiiiiiiiim]

Fair enough.