You call that a knife?

[Brigade]

This is a knife.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Uvwwshw10

 

 

 

Second sexiest birthday present I've ever had.

[ds64]

It can cut vegetables... so yes that is a knife.. 

 

Nice kukri btw

[Halstrom]

Looks a little undersized, we have scarier throwing spoons than that for taking out smaller spiders here in Oz 

[Emily]

kukri?

You can throw it like boomerangs?

[Guest airdance]

It was the favourite knife of the Gurkas in WW II

[Koko.Hekmatyar]

Isn't it still the standard issue Knife for the Nepalese Military?

[AKM]

Very nice! Do you have the attitude and training to make it what it can be?

[Brigade]

Very nice! Do you have the attitude and training to make it what it can be?

 

I'm intending to use it while hunting/exploring in Alaska. Don't need much combat training to use it in this way. Main purpose will be to chop up whatever I kill, to make transport easier. Also got it for two rare situations, one of which I almost had to deal with once.: A hungry wolf, and if a tree falls on one of my limbs. Why remove your limb when you can remove the tree?

[ds64]

how much it's weight?

Did it comes with sharpening tools?

 

tree falls on your limb?... that could be deadly if you're hunting alone... but how did it happen anyway?
Fortunately it never happen to us when I hunt with my older brother.

[nonusnomeni]

OMFG

 

btw beauty

[Brigade]

how much it's weight?

Did it comes with sharpening tools?

 

tree falls on your limb?... that could be deadly if you're hunting alone... but how did it happen anyway?

Fortunately it never happen to us when I hunt with my older brother.

 

~ 1.7lbs, no kit came with it. Made with 1085 steel, much better than 1095 for anything longer than a few inches. Handle is made of kraton, very strong resin with a rubbery texture. Much thinner than a traditional kukri at .165 inches. Most of the blade is coated with resin to prevent rust, although the edge will still need to be oiled. The leather side of the sheath will also need to be oiled. In case you decide to get one, remember that the edge is 20 degrees.

 

This is also not to be maintained as an axe or machete. The edge is not meant to be used as a simple wedge to help beat down brush, or get in between the grain of a tree. It's meant to cut, slice, chop, and stab (yes, it's designed to stab) things. You do use it the same when clearing brush or cutting down trees though, you just have to be sure to sharpen it as you would a large knife.

[AKM]

Glad to see you won't need it for one of its more common (intended?) uses.  Personal experience (from one who carries a knife, albeit a serious folding one, every day) indicates that as you said that a non-serrated blade isn't the best for tree and smaller woodcutting.  But if it's what you have it's definitely better than nothing!  A great tool, and hopefully never needed for defense, but it's there if you need it.

[Cezul]

Dis ma knofe

 

[kurisu7885]

Eh, I'm in the pic, but I may as well show off the bad boy I got at the Renaissance Festival.

 

[Brigade]

Looks like it's made of stainless, but I can't be too sure.

[kurisu7885]

Looks like it's made of stainless, but I can't be too sure.

 

I'm fairly certain as well. Took me a while to find it online and I think it said it's made from stainless.

 

Hero Edge K-1020-4 if curious

 

EDIT: derp, it says stainless right there on the blade.

[Brigade]

Pros: You will never have to maintain it.

 

Cons: You will never cut anything with it. Slap it into something hard and it will snap in half at the tang, if not the middle of the blade itself.

 

Not really much of an issue for a decorative piece though.

[morvo]

Another pro of a knife that big:

It can butter bread in just one swipe! =p

[Brigade]

Three slices at a time.