What sort of steel is this please? (Indian blade)

spiral · 5th February 2009, 09:56 AM

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 .

5th February 2009, 09:56 AM	#18
spiral Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,712	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 .