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Kukri Knife

 

The kukri knife company is named after a Nepali, the kukri knife is also spelled as “khukuri knife” and is also called as Gurkha knife which comes from Nepal, which is curved inwardly and has more or less curve shape. Though kukri knife is the national knife of Nepal it has not only gained popularity within Nepal but also gained popularity worldwide as it is one of the most convenient and peculiar knives.

The kukri knifes were used by ‘Legendary Gurkhas’ in Nepal. The “khukuri house private limited” is a company which not only produces knives for in-house people but provides knives as per customer requirements to worldwide, they are known as the wholesale retail for knives and do lot of exporting to the other countries.

The type’s raw materials used to make kukri knife
• Buffalo horn
• Leather
• Rose woods
• Car spring
• Brasses
• Aluminum
• Steel
• Coals

The kukri knife is made by experienced hand, and they under go lot of in-house quality checks before they are exported. They supply regular materials to Royal Nepalese army and Nepal police, and they export regularly to Australia, Canada, USA, UK, Italy, Germany and South Africa etc.

All kukris are specially designed and hand crafted the making of single knife keeps four men fully occupied for the whole day and some circumstances where the customers design is more or complicated then they even spend more than a day. The selected raw material or metal is repeatedly heated and hammered on the anvil, which is usually a sledge hammer or a manual head embedded in the ground where the charcoal is fueled, then finally hot water is poured where the stress is released and then the blade is brought into the shape. Then the sharpening, tempering, on the edge and shaping the sheath are done carefully by hand the machine is used only to give shining to the lathe. Finally the kukri knife is checked before sending to the show room.

Types of kukri knife
• Kabar machete kukri with sheath
• Bush hog kukri knife
• Gurka kukri knife
• Kershaw outcast
• Hand forged folded steel knife
• Cold steel boning knife
• Cold steel kitchen classics set
• Cold steel slicer
• Cold steel steak knife serrated

The kukri is designed for 2 purposes firstly for utility and weaponry, primarily for chopping. The shapes vary from strait to highly curve with angled or smooth spines. The blade varies in dimensions and is customized as per the customer requirement. So all this includes in the weight a balance after the construction of the knife, to keep it light weight the blade can be hollow forged.

Weaponry – an attacking weapon, the kukri is effective both as a chopping or slashing weapon. In combination it is basically used in three different styles, stabbing with the point, slashing or chopping with the edge, and throwing. Because it has an angular blade bending towards the opponent, which makes a kukri more comfortable as a stabbing weapon than other straight bladed knives. Its heavy blade enables the user to inflict deep wounds and cut through muscle and bone. Gurkhas were known for using the kukri to chop off an enemy soldiers head with one stroke.

Utility – While most famed from use in the military, the kukri is most commonly used as a woodcutting and general purpose tool, and is a very common agricultural and household implement in Nepal. Its use has varied from building, clearing, chopping firewood, and digging to cutting meat and vegetables, skinning animals and opening tins.
Kukri blades usually have a notch at the base of the blade. Various reasons are given for this, both practical and ceremonial, that it makes blood and avoids running into the hand, at the end of the blade it’s not in line of whilst sharpening, that is the symbol of
representing a cow foot.

Handles are usually made of hardwood or buffalo horn, but the ivory, bone and the metal handles are also used. The handle is quite often has a flared butt that allows better cutting and chopping. All the handles have metal bolsters and butt plates which are generally made of brass or steel finish. The full tang is usually used by the military.

The classification of kukris are mainly made into two types
• Eastern
• Western

The eastern blades are usually are thinner and often referred to sirupates (Siru Leaf). Western blades are generally broader. Occasionally the western styles is called budhuna (refers to a fish with a large head) or baspate (bamboo leaf) which refers to blades just outside of the normal sirupates blade. But in Nepal you can see that both the style blades are used in all parts of Nepal.

In all knives you can trust the kukri knives for both the utility and weaponry purpose and go for it.


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