Unique new sgian!

[Fearnest]

Saw this today, and thought it looked like it was worth investigating!

(Does it cross cultural boundaries? Yes. But it's pretty darned cool anyway.)



Paper Kukri
Price : US$ 7.99
Weight : 100 gms

http://www.khukurihouseonline.com/

Kukri Info
It is the replica of the original Gurkha khukuri. It is identical to service khukuri (current issue) in shape and looks however in very small size. It is used as letter opener or as a paper cutter, an ingredient for your office desktop. It makes a perfect gift and souvenir from Nepal to take back home. The blade is made of solid metal (brass). This is the smallest knife made by Khukuri House.

Size of blade: 4 inch
Materials: Water buffalo leather scabbard, horn/rosewood handle, solid brass blade
Origin: Dharan, Eastern Nepal

[Ayin McFye]

That's a sweet looking knife. A bit too big to fit on my leg, but it is nice looking. Thanks for sharing!

[Mr. MacDougall]

A bit too big to fit on my leg, but it is nice looking.

Ayin, did you look at the other objects in the picture provided for scale? The thing is about as long as a ball-point pen. I suspect it'd fit in kilt hose just fine.

For myself, I'd rather stick with a more traditional straight-bladed knife, and a functional one, at that, rather than a letter opener, no matter how pretty it might happen to be.

[Splash_4]

The original Khurki is about 18 inchel long. What they are shoing in the photo is a letter opener. I have one of each sitting at the house right now.

[McMurdo]

nice looking letter opener you've got there, not sure if I would stick it in my hose top though, but it would be a great conversation piece at your next kilt night.

[Arlen]

Considering that the Gurkhas have such a tight link with Scottish regiments I think the crossing of cultures actually fits very, very well.

[macwilkin]

Interesting. I'd like to see one "in person".

It does pay tribute to the special relationship between the Highland Regiments of the British Army and the Gurkhas. There is a strong connection between the two, as the latter have adopted the bagpipe and tartan as symbols of their own. Kipling referred to this friendship ("Scots and Gurkys") in his Soldiers Three stories.

Gurkha and Scottish Regiments served in a number of campaigns and battles. I have a couple of accounts of this at home in Bryon Farwell's Mr. Kipling's Army.

On a personal note, I may just have to consider this -- my grandfather, may he rest in peace, served in India during WWII and admired the Scots and Gurkhas that were allies in a common cause.

T.

[haukehaien]

An excellent Kipling quote, from The Drums of the Fore and Aft:

"The Regiment could not halt for reprisals against the sharpshooters of the country-side. Its duty was to go forward and make connectioon with the Scotch and Gurkha troops with which it was brigaded. The Afghans knew this, and knew too, after their first tentative shots, that they were dealing with a raw regiment Thereafter they devoted themselves to the task of keeping the Fore and Aft on the strain. Not for anything would they have taken equal liberties with a seasoned corps—with the wicked little Gurkhas, whose delight it was to lie out in the open on a dark night and stalk their stalkers—with the terrible big men dressed in women’s clothes, who could be heard praying to their God in the night-watches, and whose peace of mind no amount of “sniping” could shake—or with those vile Sikhs, who marched so ostentatiously unprepared and who dealt out such grim reward to those who tried to profit by that unpreparedness."

I love that description of the Highlanders, from a Pathan tribesman's point of view.

[Ayin McFye]

Ayin, did you look at the other objects in the picture provided for scale? The thing is about as long as a ball-point pen. I suspect it'd fit in kilt hose just fine.

For myself, I'd rather stick with a more traditional straight-bladed knife, and a functional one, at that, rather than a letter opener, no matter how pretty it might happen to be.

You right, the length probably wouldn't be a problem at all, it just "seemed" larger. But you're definitely right, after i relooked at it and actually paid attention to the other items in the picture it wouldn't be too long.

[macwilkin]

An excellent Kipling quote, from The Drums of the Fore and Aft:

"The Regiment could not halt for reprisals against the sharpshooters of the country-side. Its duty was to go forward and make connectioon with the Scotch and Gurkha troops with which it was brigaded. The Afghans knew this, and knew too, after their first tentative shots, that they were dealing with a raw regiment Thereafter they devoted themselves to the task of keeping the Fore and Aft on the strain. Not for anything would they have taken equal liberties with a seasoned corps—with the wicked little Gurkhas, whose delight it was to lie out in the open on a dark night and stalk their stalkers—with the terrible big men dressed in women’s clothes, who could be heard praying to their God in the night-watches, and whose peace of mind no amount of “sniping” could shake—or with those vile Sikhs, who marched so ostentatiously unprepared and who dealt out such grim reward to those who tried to profit by that unpreparedness."

I love that description of the Highlanders, from a Pathan tribesman's point of view.

Classic! Reminds me this quote from Rifleman Billy Fish in the movie The Man Who Would Be King:

"I oft times tell Ootah about Englishmens. How they give names to dogs and take off hats to womans, and march into battle, left-right, left-right with rifles on their shoulders. "

T.