Wooden training khukri

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crappiejosh

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I'm a big time you tuber and I found a couple of guys that had made a video of ha them playing with a couple of wooden khukris. Would those be a good tool for training and getting use to handling a khukri or that just a waste of time and where might I be able to find a wooden one or would I be better to make one and model it after my khukri that I have coming?
 
It won't be weighted the same, won't perform the same and you can't chop with it.
The only thing training khukuri may be good for is for khukuri kata training....training in fighting moves and even then their real value over training with the real thing is debatable.
 
You could use your khukuri when you get it to make a wood training model of itself. If you're concerned about proper weighting you might use duct tape and some of that extruded lead used for fishing weights to adjust weight and balance.

Perhaps we should have a "make a trainer with your khukuri" contest. Entrants can post pictures of their homemade trainers, along with the real khukuri that was used to make it. Winner to be determined by forum consensus, and 1rst prize is bragging rights in the Cantina.
 
I like it, pretty cool idea. Might be a better winter project but at the same time might be nice to whittle a trainer and work on your tan at the same time. Nice here today and suppose to be warm tomorrow. I'm ready.
 
A real standing tree? What make a tree not real? Didn't all wood once be a tree.

Do you think I should have been a philosopher, hey I figured out how to spell philosopher.
 
I was going to find a piece of 1/2" hard wood like some red oak or something and use my khuk as a template and and have a full tang and then add some handles and then since I'm a fishing nut and pour a lit of my own fishing weights I can adjust my weight of my wooden khuk fairly easy I think I'm no expert wood carver but this shouldn't be too hard but cutting everything from green wood I think it would take to long to dry out so if I just run down to the lumber yard and get a board that's already cured out don't think I'll have to worry about the finished product cracking or splitting out on me I'll probably use a band saw to get my basic shape then depending on how hard the wood is to carve I'll just use a pocket knife or my khuk to carve out what's left then make me some grips and then get some A rivets from workand some glue to attach the grips and then drill some holes in the spine and drop some pencil weights in to adjust for the weight and balance part and then some epoxy and some wooden plugs and maybe even some varnish or stain of some sort. Been thinking about this for a few days now lol haha if ya can't tell!!!
 
Electricity? Blasphemy. Rig your bandsaw up to a bicycle and have some body pedal to make the blade go around.

Modern technology ain't all it's cracked up to be ya know?
 
;) its not my band saw. I was going to use the BIG one at work lol haha I work in a large sheet metal shop and we gots all kinds of play toys shears press breaks water jets.... everything we need to keep Uncle Sams airforce flying
 
The easiest way to get a training khukuri is to buy the cheapest piece of junk khukuri-like-object that you can find on the internet, file off the sharp edge if it even has one, and duct tape some foam over the former edge for additional safety.

It would be best to wait until you get the khukuri that you have coming, and try to get a piece of junk of similar size, shape and weight, or at least reasonably close. If necessary, trim the piece of junk a bit to make it more like the real khukuri.

That won't win you any points in Howard's contest, but it will probably be less work than any of the alternatives that have been discussed. One of the advantages of this over a wooden model is that you can set up some kind of target and actually hit it as part of your practice. I assume you're talking about some kind of martial arts technique, rather than chopping, since there's no way to practice chopping with a wooden khukuri.
 
davidf99 said:
The easiest way to get a training khukuri is to buy the cheapest piece of junk khukuri-like-object that you can find on the internet, file off the sharp edge if it even has one, and duct tape some foam over the former edge for additional safety.
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^That gets my vote :-) :thumbup:
 
I do love a challenge though, I'll keep my eye's peeled for something petrified. I know I had a bee's nest in my mailbox post last year and I was petrified when I discovered it but I don't think that will help in this instance.
 
davidf99 said:
The easiest way to get a training khukuri is to buy the cheapest piece of junk khukuri-like-object that you can find on the internet, file off the sharp edge if it even has one, and duct tape some foam over the former edge for additional safety.

It would be best to wait until you get the khukuri that you have coming, and try to get a piece of junk of similar size, shape and weight, or at least reasonably close. If necessary, trim the piece of junk a bit to make it more like the real khukuri.
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Think of such an object as a training lead pipe. Don't imagine you can whack someone with it without breaking bones. Come to think of it, a weighted wood trainer could have the same effect.

Not to say anyone shouldn't train with one, just be careful of yourselves and your partners.
 
Buy up the dang lionheads, and trainerize those.
The purpose of trainers in my opinion is to be able to work with a partner-in that case correct weight is a liability, since somebody is likely to get smashed. I have been teaching with poly trainers (made from made-in-USA wallyworld $12 cuttingboards) for a couple years-i like them a lot. image.jpg
(Not a khuk, but I have a khuktrainer in process).
If I needed a solo trainer, rather than using the live blade, might as well cut one from 1/2" mild steel plate, and drill holes to achieve balance and weight similarity.
 
That is some Silat/Kali you're watching there.
The trainers are barongs-but the principle of the trainer is the same.
Sometimes I feel like you're losing some of the unique capabilities of the khuk by adapting it to a different style, but it can be done, and done well.
 
I have often imagined the khuk shape would lend itself to a very formidable club/trainer. Sort of like a khukuri bokken. Even if it's lighter and un-edged, I think a couple of good smacks to common strike points would ruin someone's day without taking their arm/head off.
 
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