FEBRUARY calendar
 

I have no idea what this month's example is. Looks Indian, but has a strange clipped point. 22" w/o the the pommel ring. Any ideas?
If anyone wants to send me a picture for next month's calendar please do.
http://www.jnanam.net/users/jp/feb.jpg

Thanks for the calendar. You are right, it is a bit of a strange one, maybe someone knows more.

Regards

Jens

It looks like a mutant kukri ...

Mark, would that then make it a kook? :D

It's a regional kukuri variation (Western Pakistan?), though the depth of the fuller seems unusual.

Definitely not Jose , as the term kook is a derivative of the Hawaiian noun Kukai . :eek: :D

Tom,
If you have specific knowledge or examples of this variation I would really appreciate getting them.
Thanks!

How about this one, JP?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...n/7abdfd36.jpg

That appears to be the wrong photo?
I certainly don't have any examples to offer up, and no ability to post photos to websites. It's actually not an incredibly uncommon variety, except, as I say, for the deep wide fuller. True, one doesn't see them much in US, from which alone one can quess they come from a land not muchly visitted by Americans. Again, fits well to Western Pakistan. Trying to think where I saw a bunch of them all together; somewhere on the internet; perhaps for sale; I don't remember. The extremity and style of the curve are as much a part of this style as the tip. This one has a more or less sabre-like shape to its tip. There are others (and I think these are two distinct regional styles, with, from what I've heard and read, these others more southern) with a pronounced short clip similar to those seen on bhuj, for example, while otherwise remaining clearly kukuris.

Tom, if you have any pictures you can send them directly to me. I'd be very interested to see more of this type since this is the only one I've ever discovered. Do you know if it came in a sheath and if they are common in Western Pakistan do they have a name? Any explanation for that strange clipped tip or is it like the kauri on kukris...just there?

http://www.jnanam.net/users/jp/cliptip.jpg

I believe Andrew's suggestion was for a calender edition, Tom ... :)