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JPSF
31st January 2005, 04:22 PM
I have no idea what this month's example is. Looks Indian, but has a strange clipped point. 22" w/o the the pommel ring. Any ideas?
If anyone wants to send me a picture for next month's calendar please do.
http://www.jnanam.net/users/jp/feb.jpg
Jens Nordlunde
31st January 2005, 05:06 PM
Thanks for the calendar. You are right, it is a bit of a strange one, maybe someone knows more.

Regards

Jens
Mark
31st January 2005, 05:38 PM
It looks like a mutant kukri ...
Battara
31st January 2005, 11:41 PM
Mark, would that then make it a kook? :D
tom hyle
1st February 2005, 01:00 AM
It's a regional kukuri variation (Western Pakistan?), though the depth of the fuller seems unusual.
Rick
1st February 2005, 01:31 AM
Mark, would that then make it a kook? :D

Definitely not Jose , as the term kook is a derivative of the Hawaiian noun Kukai . :eek: :D
JPSF
1st February 2005, 05:25 AM
Tom,
If you have specific knowledge or examples of this variation I would really appreciate getting them.
Thanks!
Andrew
1st February 2005, 05:36 AM
How about this one, JP?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/cha-con/7abdfd36.jpg
tom hyle
1st February 2005, 10:54 AM
That appears to be the wrong photo?
I certainly don't have any examples to offer up, and no ability to post photos to websites. It's actually not an incredibly uncommon variety, except, as I say, for the deep wide fuller. True, one doesn't see them much in US, from which alone one can quess they come from a land not muchly visitted by Americans. Again, fits well to Western Pakistan. Trying to think where I saw a bunch of them all together; somewhere on the internet; perhaps for sale; I don't remember. The extremity and style of the curve are as much a part of this style as the tip. This one has a more or less sabre-like shape to its tip. There are others (and I think these are two distinct regional styles, with, from what I've heard and read, these others more southern) with a pronounced short clip similar to those seen on bhuj, for example, while otherwise remaining clearly kukuris.
JPSF
1st February 2005, 07:11 PM
Tom, if you have any pictures you can send them directly to me. I'd be very interested to see more of this type since this is the only one I've ever discovered. Do you know if it came in a sheath and if they are common in Western Pakistan do they have a name? Any explanation for that strange clipped tip or is it like the kauri on kukris...just there?

http://www.jnanam.net/users/jp/cliptip.jpg
Mark
1st February 2005, 08:09 PM
I believe Andrew's suggestion was for a calender edition, Tom ... :)