Kukri Knives

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Originally Posted by kronckew

I have a large crown stag grip khukuri that came with the karda/chackmak striker in a dangly belt pouch - the khuk itself has a scabbard cover made for a baldric shoulder belt - a later add-on.


I note the size of the larda/chackmak seems to be proportional to the khuk's blade lenght - and are pretty much useless on small khukuri. they get lost very frequently and many people take off the empty little pouches on the scabbard.

Nice. Is the kukri an Indian kukri as I've noticed they generally lack a chakmak or if they have one there is never a tinder pouch in the scabbard.

As to kukris it does seem the other northern Indian cultures have always had that blade shape too and it's that the Nepalis made this super refined much more ergonomic and really very sophisticated style of weapon until it overlook almost every other arm they had in its appeal.
i think it's been discussed over and over and I use to think it was a myth.. but as one looks more and more at archeological items it does really look like that kukri has its distant origins in Greece and Anatolia and ultimately maybe??? Egypt with curved sort of weapons the kopis.. and we can probably throw in Germanic war knives and finally the sex and other items too from that family. The bronce age chopper. The yatagans and such knives in the south Balkans are just to clearly descended from those curved kopis and the small curved knives that accompanied them and if anyone every does some archeological research into it in India, Nepal and Iran I would bet you'll find similar knives appear several1000snd of years ago with the spread of Greek and Anatolian cultures eastward..
It's similar to how our modern Bowie knives probably came from a similar ancestor but much earlier . - Bowie to messer - seax.. seax to war knives and war knives probably from some bronze proto kopis from the Mediterranean people's.

We only know kukris as far back as we see them in art which is when they became a status item in Nepal. But they probably existed many hundreds of years prior or even more.
It's similar to most old styles of weapon . We see them first in art when they achieve social popularity.
But generally they have existed for a great period of time prior or have existed Ina slightly different form in the society that we don't immediately recognise.