John thank you for your honest words, To quote the knife expert Bernard Levine
" I don't cling to comfortable familiar errors, mine or anyone else's.
I don't mistake my imagination for an information source.
I always prefer primary sources to derivative works, but even original documents contain errors.
Every knife is what it is. No one's opinion can change that. Not even everyone's opinion can change that.
I know what I know.
I know what I don't know.
I know the difference.
When I guess, I say so, and say why.
Being book-learned about knives is like being book-learned about anything else: a guarantee of sophmoric pomposity and public absurdity. One learns knives by studying knives. Real world knowledge enables critical reading. Reading without experience leads to confusion and foot in mouth and embarsement"
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Most of these kukri have original spine inscriptions in the manner of the mainly post 1902 so called Longleaf kukris from Atlanta cutlery. I think thats a pretty good primary source myself.
Cheers.
Spiral
