A new knife…

Through a friend of a friend, who’s been helping me to get the Gurkhas correct in the Rimworld series, I got a package yesterday…

It’s a correct/current British military Gurkha’s knife set with the eating knife and sharpener. It’s a working knife, not a show/display knife!!! And a friend who has a ‘familiarity’ with them said, “Yep, Brit mil, great knife, scabbard sucks…”

It is definitely a trip trying to get the @%^#$ knife back in the scabbard…

But I truly appreciate the knife and don’t mind the wait at all!

Comments

A new knife… — 17 Comments

  1. I need one of those. Just practice re-sheathing. It’ll come to you.

  2. I am a traditionalist. My Kukri has never been resheathed unblooded.

    • That’s a myth that started when Gurkhas got tired of Brits and Americans bugging them to see their kukris.

    • Well, getting the Kukri into the sheath usually ends up with the user bleeding. Does that count?

  3. I got one of these a few years ago when my dad was traveling around India and Nepal teaching. One of his classes gave him one and he asked if I wanted it (enthusiastic yes). I guess the practice is that anything you don’t want to take home you can set into a clean wastebasket in your hotel room and the staff understands that it is theirs for the taking.

    It was made by Kukri House and is fantastic quality. The scabbard is not great, the little accessory knives fall out a lot so I don’t keep them in the scabbard when using the knife.

    I have, however, cut inch thick branches off my apple tree with this knife. It is definitely a workhorse. I now keep it in my bug out bag.

  4. well, as jackson said, draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.

  5. I have, sadly, only a ColdSteel version of the Kukri.

    And their scabbard sucks, too.

    It is a function of all blades with a drop-point on them, from falcata to kopis to kukri, all suck in scabbarding. If the scabbard is straight, then the blade wobbles in it and makes noise and falls out. If the scabbard is form-fitting, the scabbard must have a cut-out at top to allow the widest part of the blade (usually somewhere near the tip) to pass.

    And, thus, many fingers get cut by the blades in trying to resheathe them. I found the best thing is to hold the sheath in one hand and carefully sheath the blade. Which means it is very difficult to do on my fat body while actually carrying it belted.

    But the design, and the ColdSteel version, are wicked great at whacking things, as long as it’s a quality blade and not some cheap tourist blade.

  6. All- Thanks for the comments, I haven’t cut myself badly… yet!

    Posted from my iPhone.

  7. I have four from the house and their workmanship is excellent. I have a custom piece from them, too, and they are great to work with. Heck, part of the enjoyment is just unwrapping (they are NOT kidding — be careful!) the package with a return address of Katmandu (I don’t use their U.S. warehouse).

    Back into the scabbard? Uh, not very easy with any of mine; think the skill is in the DNA.