One knife to rule them all ...

[oafpatroll]

This basic design (https://flic.kr/p/2q38Rpo) is an upgrade after several experiments and can do basically anything one can wish it to do, except for chopping wood . It is a light and handy knife, easy to sharpen and carry, wonderful in the kitchen and suited for most tasks. A slightly rounded belly at the tip would be an advantage when skinning. 

Something along broadly similar lines that I had made a long time back but which got relegated to being a queen of the knife draw due to my OCD. Its 190mm overall so quite a handy little thing.

[big5ifty]

My do-all knife.

Hand made Nepalese. Claims to be made from truck leaf springs. Spine is 8mm thick.

[oafpatroll]

My do-all knife.

Hand made Nepalese. Claims to be made from truck leaf springs. Spine is 8mm thick.

I had one similar to that that. It was  a Khukri House WW2 pattern example that lived in my Landcruiser for 10 years. Fabulous thing that skirkked vir niks. Pretty much the perfect combination of hatchet and knife. Gave it to my dad on night in a burst of drunken generosity.

Bought a Lasher khukri shaped knife from Camp and Climb which I later found out is what they make/made for Cold Steel. It's a surprisingly capable thing and has lived in my bakkie for 3 or 4 years where it's done most of what the real khukri was capable of with the exception perhaps of real wood chopping.

If ever there was a thing that exemplifies form being dictated by function a khukri's it.

The guy i got the original one from had an agency for Khukri House and he reckoned theirs are made from scrapped leaf springs.

[oafpatroll]

The Lasher khukri shaped panga. Useful thing at R200 bucks odd

[Ds J]

How is a kukri for finer work?

I own a ceremonial kukri with bone handle, obviously handmade with a slight kink in the blade. It has not worked a single cut, except for chopping test after I sharpened it properly.

This knife reminds me of the canadian belt knife design. ( https://www.chuckhawks.com/grohmann_1_knife.htm )

For some reason, I cannot wrap my head around the canadian design (it seems odd and does not make sense to my feeling of what would work well) but history prooves me wrong because it would not have been copied so much if it didn't work well.

I once read that the best knife designs linger on because they work well, and that can be said of quite a few basic designs: bowie, parang, bolo, kukri, sax, etc.

[oafpatroll]

How is a kukri for finer work?

I own a ceremonial kukri with bone handle, obviously handmade with a slight kink in the blade. It has not worked a single cut, except for chopping test after I sharpened it properly.
This knife reminds me of the canadian belt knife design. ( https://www.chuckhawks.com/grohmann_1_knife.htm )

For some reason, I cannot wrap my head around the canadian design (it seems odd and does not make sense to my feeling of what would work well) but history prooves me wrong because it would not have been copied so much if it didn't work well.

I once read that the best knife designs linger on because they work well, and that can be said of quite a few basic designs: bowie, parang, bolo, kukri, sax, etc.

My experience of Khukris has only been with a couple of the basic WW2 service pattern types which as I understand it were meant as heavy field and fighting blades but there are a vast variiety of sizes and styles so I can't speak for them. I found the one I had to work best for finer work if I secured the blade and then applied the work piece to it. It was a heavy chunk of steel so didn't lend itself to surgery.

That Canadian blade is an interesting looking thing. I haven't come across the design before and like you would never have imagined that it was effective for looking at it. Just goes to show. Having said that the Caunuckistanis did end up hiring Justin Trudeau though so I guess you have to take that into account.