Recently acquired Kukri.

[mrcjgscott]

Originally Posted by sirupate

Hi Chris,
Then the GM and the IWM must have the same picture, and we will have to agree to disagree,

We certainly will, I am sure everybody here can make their own minds up.

Originally Posted by sirupate

Gurkhas were not allowed to personalise issued kukri btw.

Again, I don't remember suggesting they were, but without examining those 96,000 kukri you mentioned, I doubt you would be able to prove that.

Originally Posted by sirupate

I don't think you can be certain at all, unless there is provenance with the kukri to say it was made in Nepal.

Well, one can be as certain as one can be, in regards to style, form, construction and the experience of handling several hundred.

Like everybody else, I have been known to be wrong in the past, and am happy to be proved so, if it means we all come out learning a little more because of it. But in order for that to happen, somebody would need to say why they believe it is not Nepalese.

Originally Posted by sirupate

Personally I see no need to label kukri, which the Nepalese don't have a name for, but each to their own.

If there were Nepalese terms I would use them, I do where they are available. But where there are none, in order to produce a working lexicon to further our knowledge and discussion, such terms are essential.

Chhuri, chakku, and karda are all Nepali words for knife. Yet Karda is the one we associate with the companion knife housed in the back of the scabbard.

So long as such terms are seen for what they are, there is nothing to fear, and everything to gain.

Kind regards,

Chris