Hey there Shelley! Thanks so much for putting a review up and glad you're happy with the blade and the performance. I'm sorry to hear your blade didn't arrive particularly sharp- I think your guess about the blade being overbuffed is correct. While we don't have this issue frequently it does seem to be correlated to the full height and lean grind- perhaps our smiths are still accustomed to polishing the beefier tourist offerings from their previous houses. I'll bring it up with them and see if we can remedy this pattern. I've responded on your other video regarding the handle :) The weather in NZ looks beautiful. Hope the blade continues to serve you well for years to come. Take care, Andrew
the scales on the golok are supposed to overhang the metal, so that they can be used without gloves in artic conditions, the same is true of the MOD survival knife. It doesn't come without drawbacks, but it is intentional. You 'banged together' what looks like a nice sheath, and the kukri looks stunning.
That does make sense, although I think it cold environments I would wear gloves and or wrap the handle with some electrical tape to keep the metal away from my hands. Good to know though, the handles were pretty uncomfortable to use.
Hey Shelly do you think kalish is better then ggk. I've been trying to decide between the ggk super fast kukri or the pensioner kalish. I thought I remember you having both companies. Wondering which would you choose?
Hey mate, I do not have a ggk khukuri, but my understanding is that they do traditional tempering techniques, in other words water from a tea pot, whereas kailash so oil tempering, if you are going after a user then I would go for kailash, and don’t be afraid to spend little extra on options, I think a pensioner with a leather handle and a performance grind in a kydex sheath would be mean as!
@@ShelleyRaskin thank you I just went to GGK site. They say they oil quench. I know Mr Darnel is a very highly spoken of man. It's rather tough buying stuff site unseen. I know both companies have amazing reputations. Thank you for you opinion I really need to find some who has used both. Have a good one my friend.
@@glenh4971 the reason I trust Kailash is their heat treatment, after forging they go three 3 normalisation cycles then after final grinding and before handle fitting and polishing they heatbtreat hold then oil quench allowing for a rapid cooling of the blade to set it in the right crystal structure, then they temper three times for two hours each time, after all of this they fit the handle and do a final polish. No pouring water on the blade with a teapot (although they may do if you ask them nicely), I believe this is the best heat treatment of any khukuri house that I have seen, add to that micarta handles, choice of hardware and the option of kydex you ate left with a bombproof product. I am not employed by them and pay for all my pieces. Just my opinion.
@@ShelleyRaskin I trust your opinion. I can see that you know a lot about kukri's. Kailash blades has a great reputation also. Plus, they have a good marketing department using Andrew to communicate with clients. I just wanted you to know that GGK is also a good company who makes great kukri's. They don't have a person like Andrew to communicate with the public. So I thought I would throw my 2 cents in there. GGK has a shop on the strip in Katmandu. They make and sell low end models as well as high end custom kukri's and swords. You can read on the website how they heat treat the kukri's. GGK is honest and makes good products. You get what you pay for with GGK. I don't want to take anything away from Kailash because I can see they indeed make great products. There are only a few companies that make good kukri's. Both Kailash and GGK are on the short list of companies to trust.
So they go through all that then ruin it with a grinder to polish? Þhey heat treat it once and temper it once. I don't know who told you that! Thanks for showing it.
I was told, and I don’t know if it’s true or not, that they shape them, go through 3 cycles of stress relief after (essentially heat to around 600 centigrade then let cool to room temp is one cycle), then they heat to around 800-850 centigrade, hold that temp for 15 mins then oil quench, then 3 cycles of tempering at around 175-225 c for two hours each time. Which is fine, then they polish them, essentially a polishing wheel on a bench grinder, with minimal cooling in between, I feel that this may negatively overheat the edge (where the steel is thin and can’t dissipate the heat quickly), if I was getting another their blades I would get a less polished finish. I choose Kailesh because their heat treatment is better than the normal teapot kami method, which is as you describe. Cheers!
This is slightly smaller than a normal version the blade is 32 cm or about 12.5 inches long, it’s also a lot lighter and thinner but very fast in the hand.
@@ShelleyRaskin It's simply not an M43 by any stretch of the imagination, I've had several genuine ones over the years. In the Kukri world anything about 560 grams (give or take) would be considered a utility Kukri. They really should call it something else.
@@simonhengle8316 Your boys make truly accurate, beautiful replicas, the Mk1 you made me is outstanding (and heavy) - but (here it is), I do not think your heat treatment is very good (it may be accurate), the Kailash guys make better working blades, it does not matter to me if their accuracy is not as perfect as yours if they perform better and are better to use in the bush (I do not use them on people); the second point I make is for my western hands your Mk1 is not comfortable, I have to hold it very specifically or the knob on the back hurts my hands, so too does my Heritage Blades Papu khukuri, but all my Kailash blades feel good to swing and chop with. I do love the look of your blades but for a user then I am sticking to Kailash, maybe less historically accurate but great to use.
@@ShelleyRaskin How Kailash blades heat treat their Kukri (of which I'm well aware of) is up to them and absolutely fine by me. You have quite simply missed my point, and that is it's nothing like an M43 so therefore should be called something else. As for the traditional kettle method, it hardens the edge perfectly fine (contrary to what their website says), and I've encountered no problems with that method with my Kukri, and of course I like to keep the traditional method of making Kukti alive and kicking, as much as possible. It is interesting to note that the Japanese smiths still quench their nihonto in water, and their traditional method produced far better results than the Shingunto oil quenched swords. I have no problem with Kailash blades, I just ask they used a different name when the Kukri doesn't fit to the name given. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0b42jDBZ-R4.html
