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My story is similar to everyone else's.
When I was a young man starting in the workday world I worked on washers and dryers of all kinds. On one of our repair calls the man of the house had a Real Khukuri. It surely was a military model the best I can recall from seeing the scabbard. It was a larger khukuri and had nice sized karda and chakma.
It was years later when I saw an ad in some magazine saying they had real kukris. I ordered one of the ceremonial models and the officers model.
I still have them. The ceremonial is all of 3/16" thick!!! The karda and chakma are mere small pieces of iron.
The next one I bought was from US Cavalry and was one of those "official army issue models." I used it for a few years and then got a LTC from CS. I like the LTC for what it is, a bent machete. It works real well for light brush and heavy weeds. It is named the "Biter" as it used to get me every time I took it out. One time my duaghter had to come over and take 4 stitches in the top of dad's hand, good thing she is used to sewig up her animals. Her doing the work saved me a trip to the emergency room. Only they would have deadened the hand first.
I knew that there were real khukuris after seeing the one when I was young. I saw the ads for H.I. Imports for a long time in the magazines and figured that they only had the same stuff I already had.
Yup!! I was wrong. Uncle Bill's website was the proof I needed. I signed on the forums and like Rusty read almost all of the old posts here and on Knifeforums.
The rest is history.
I have 13 "Real Khukuri's" now
and the end isn't in sight although I may slow down a little now.
I need to replace my 17" Sirupati village model. I belive I would like to replace it with a 15" Birghorka
model.
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The hardy adventurer just drank from a stream he thought was pure glacier fed water not knowing that upstream was being used by a herd of yaks as a giant bidet.
I said he was hardy, not smart.
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