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spiral · 22nd March 2005, 09:46 AM

Well IMHO thats sounds a great recounting of the folklore of kukri.

If you realy want to look for inaccuracies in it, The 12 or 13 inch length mentioned seems strange unless they mean some of the kukri of ww1 or 2, with that type blade length.

current British forces kukri blade length is 11 in. . obviously O/A is more.{16in.}

I have heard the "shake your head story" as originaly bieng about a 1920 Missisipi straight razor man, which to me sounds more likly, even with the adrenaline pumping, one would know when they were hit with a kukri.

A razor cut take take a few seconds to start to sting or bleed. {IMHO.}

Sadly ther is a great shortage of accurate detailed information on kukri, currently available, in book or internet format.

Here is a great factual site , although in German.

http://www.kukri.de/kukri/kukri.html
{each kukri clicked on opens a Adobe pdf file.}

regards.
Spiral

22nd March 2005, 09:46 AM	#35
spiral Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,712	Well IMHO thats sounds a great recounting of the folklore of kukri. If you realy want to look for inaccuracies in it, The 12 or 13 inch length mentioned seems strange unless they mean some of the kukri of ww1 or 2, with that type blade length. current British forces kukri blade length is 11 in. . obviously O/A is more.{16in.} I have heard the "shake your head story" as originaly bieng about a 1920 Missisipi straight razor man, which to me sounds more likly, even with the adrenaline pumping, one would know when they were hit with a kukri. A razor cut take take a few seconds to start to sting or bleed. {IMHO.} Sadly ther is a great shortage of accurate detailed information on kukri, currently available, in book or internet format. Here is a great factual site , although in German. http://www.kukri.de/kukri/kukri.html {each kukri clicked on opens a Adobe pdf file.} regards. Spiral Last edited by spiral; 22nd March 2005 at 10:37 AM.