Will do Gene.
Certanly Phillip, This ones a bit of an anomoly to me. Its a Chainpuri or Limbu villager style kukri but with Tibetan style folding.
So after a quick hefting & glancing at the blade in sunlight I decided to do a quick & dirty 10 second bathroom bleach spray, a 5 second wipe of lemon juice & a quick rinse rinse in hot water just to see what i had & it revealed this rather course but lovely blade.
I am sure the white metal handle { probably cast zinc from old battery cases & toothpaste tubes! } & the steel bolster are replacments, . Clearly this was a well used kukri at some time in its past, the spine has been well beaten for splitting firewood but luckily someone still liked it enough a few decades ago to re handle it so its life could continue.
I am rather left wondering the age of the blade... Any idea when the Tibetans {&/or Nepalis} stoped doing this style of lamination?
The other one is more traditional in style & much larger, but I need to work on it it again for photos as I originaly only brought up the pattern with lemon juice or vinigar & its very faint .
