Questions About a Curious Kukri

[sirupate]

For me the the fighting and workhorse blades hold the most interest, but at the same time I wouldn't turn down a high quality piece either

Cheers Simon

[Conogre]

Here's a link that I ran across that seems to be fairly authoritarian and with a lot of information that's concise and very readable.
http://www.army.mod.uk/brigade_of_gu...ri_history.htm

Hopefully, our specializing members and those with books on the subject will correct any innacuracies.
Mike

[spiral]

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

[tom hyle]

The "and then his head fell off" story is widely told. The earliest version I'm aware of (.....) is in a C. 19 English book about a crusader cut with a Moslem sword. Now, one of the beautiful and frightening things about a cut from a sharp edge is how freely it bleeds after that instant of bloodlessness; the sharpness and lack of resistance counteracts the shock which would help protect from a more traumatic/concussive/contusive injury.

[spiral]

Cheers Tom, this storys obviously had a lot of reincarnations!

Razor cut still sounds most realistic to me, rather than decapitation, but each to thier own.

cheers,
Spiral

[JPSF]

Still in the working stages, but there are lots of kukris to look at. Eventually when an image is selected it will "open". Try the first one in each category and it will give you an idea of what I'm trying to accomplish.
www.kukris.net

[spiral]

Good stuf JP, thats a needed site.{IMHO}, I hope as a hard core kukri enthusiast, you will include some hard tecnical data, such as weight, & point of balance, as well as the fascinating history side?

That makes the kukri 3 dimesional to my mind rather than a flat one dimesional picture, which although looking nice has no meat on its bones.

In other words It makes it a lot easier to "see" the kukri, if I know whether a 25in. long kukri weights 24 oz or 40oz. for example. And wheter tha balance pont is 6 or 9 inches in front of the bolster.


I am sure this must be true for other serious enthusiasts as well.

I Look forward to your sites further development.

Regards.
Spiral