Kukri owners club

[Zed]

Mini jungle 

[ducttapetech]

Nice! I love that top one still. Looks like it will make for a sweet woods bumming knife.

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That's my thoughts  it's so solid ,even at 8inches it should chop really well 

That is my thinking and still be able to do smaller task also.

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[Zed]

More pics 

[ducttapetech]

Your killing me with those pics.
Such a work of art.

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[Zed]

Your killing me with those pics.
Such a work of art.

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Death by khukuri, guess not the first time in history 

[Sparky415]

More pics 

  

[kkokkolis]

That's called the service #1 

Any link to the product?

[Zed]

Just type khukuri blades themal nepal 👍 I can't do a link at the mo .

Made a cover for the serapate 

[kkokkolis]

Got it!

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[Zed]

http://www.khukuriblades.com/kukri_history/

[derekmac]

God damn Paul, I'm going to have to start saying yes to overtime I think!!    These are some of the most beautiful knives I've ever seen!  I'm really envious of those beauties that you have!!!

[Zed]

God damn Paul, I'm going to have to start saying yes to overtime I think!!    These are some of the most beautiful knives I've ever seen!  I'm really envious of those beauties that you have!!!

They are pretty awesome mate,sanjay will sort you out,come to me first 

[kkokkolis]

A Thespian Hoplite (Battle of Thermopylae, 5th century BC) from my collection, with a Kopis, called Machaira later (4th century BC). See the similarities?
Xifos was used for penetrating, Kopis for cutting. "Κόπτω" means to cut, thus κοπίς is the cutter. "Μάχομαι" means to fight, thus μάχαιρα is the fighting knife.
In modern Greek the knife is still called μαχαίρι and the utility knife and wood cutting knife are called κοπίδι.
The Hindus fought against Greeks during Alexandrine times, so they had the opportunity to experience the functionality of the kopis (hoplite weapon) and the machaira (cavarly weapon).

[Zed]

Cool 

[styx]

A Thespian Hoplite (Battle of Thermopylae, 5th century BC) from my collection, with a Kopis, called Machaira later (4th century BC). See the similarities?
Xifos was used for penetrating, Kopis for cutting. "Κόπτω" means to cut, thus κοπίς is the cutter. "Μάχομαι" means to fight, thus μάχαιρα is the fighting knife.
In modern Greek the knife is still called μαχαίρι and the utility knife and wood cutting knife are called κοπίδι.
The Hindus fought against Greeks during Alexandrine times, so they had the opportunity to experience the functionality of the kopis (hoplite weapon) and the machaira (cavarly weapon).

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Didn't Hannibal's army use a similar weapon against the Romans? and there was a variation of it in Spain as well if memory serves me right. Those case after the Hellenic culture was spread throughout Mediterranean coast.
Before Greeks, weren't there similar designs in Egypt? (this part is really sketchy in my memory)

On the other front, here is an interview with Alan Kay (winner of the first seasons of Alone) in which he talks about the usefulness of the kukri among other things
http://knifenewsroom.com/2016/04/in-depth-interview-we-catch-up-and-talk-knives-with-alan-kay-the-winner-of-history-channels-alone-season-1/

[kkokkolis]

There was the Aegyptian koppesh

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Since the name is almost identical, it is possible that Greecs loaned both the name and the idea, but they changed the design to have a straight back and the word became a full Greek one, since we still use it and we conjugate it, unlike other foreign words.

Then, since Greeks of Spain, Sicilia and Italy were always fighting with Phoenicians, Phoenicians used the Greek kopis design (and not the original koppesh), named falcata, of Iberian origin. In fact, Hannibal used mercenaries from various nationalities, and people from Hiberia (Spain) carried the falcata.



It might be that the Phoenicians got the idea from Aegyptians and Greeks from Phoenicians (as they did with the alphabet), I'm not sure, but the fact is that Alexander spread the design throughout the then known world, as far as India, before Hanibal. Romans prefered the Gladius that looked like the xiphos, the most common short sword of Greek Hoplites.

Xiphos is better used in close quarters (Spartans used an even shorter version, the xyele). The word xiphos was used by Myceneans and Homer, before kopis. It wasn't straight but curved at both sides around the upper 2/3, so it was capable of cutting hits also.



Kopis was better at open quarters, such as when chasing the enemy, used by light hoplites (peltasts) and cavalry (a longer version, the machaira).



Here, the left hunter carries a spear and a xiphos, the right one a machaira.


In this scene, the right carries a xiphos, but the left uses a double axe instead from the kopis or machaira for cutting.



This double axe, called lavris, was known in Greece from the Minoan times, as back as 3650 BC, as old as the Ancient Egypt, and this was both ceremonial and functional and what possibly they used before modifying the koppesh to the koppis.



On the other hand, it might be that some of the designs emerged indepentently, since they all are a hybrid knife/axe, both known to most civilizations. The fact is that they suvived all those millenia because they work and they are useful.

[styx]

I love this history lessons.
As far as the koppesh goes, the people of Mesopotamia used something similar during the middle Assyrian period

[kkokkolis]

Yes, Assyrians used a sickle sword



and Dacians (Romania), the falx, with the cutting edge inside



The root falc of falx and flacata remained in Greece. Today, we call falceta the barber's razor and sometimes the folding knife.

[Zed]

All these weapons have interesting histories,the khukuri was not just a weapon of war but a tool for in the fields and jungle and village's, different parts of nepal have different blade and decoration styles,makes it a interesting thing to collect 

[Zed]

My little collection 

[derekmac]

My little collection 

Very nice!!  I love the third one up from the bottom! 

[Zed]

My little collection 

Very nice!!  I love the third one up from the bottom! 

  that's a mini jungle with a different handle than normal,sanjay had his Kami do a full flat tang with rivets on it ,its lengh to weight ratio is spot on,its got great balance 

[Zed]

This chainpure 10inch khukuri is one of my favourites 

[styx]

that is a beauty

[Zed]

that is a beauty

 Thanks mate,It's a more compact version of my 15inch Tuljung khukuri 

[Zed]

http://www.khukuriblades.com/products/details.php?id=323337fc4c1

A link to the mini jungle pana

[derekmac]

http://www.khukuriblades.com/products/details.php?id=323337fc4c1

A link to the mini jungle pana

Paul, I hate to be a pain, but would you be able to take a pic of this one next to a SAK?  I'm just trying to visualize the overall size of it.

[ducttapetech]

The SAK would be close to the size of the handle.

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[Zed]

I'm off down the beach but early this morning and want be back till late,I'll do a pic Monday,it's got a hefty 18inch blade and think the handle is 4 and a half inches ,pic asap,

[Zed]

I'm scrub that,a quick pic before I go out