Hello there Evil Spock. Some of us have a Waki but would love a Res-C handled sword too! I do agree on the axe, I would love one.

Welcome to the Yard Evil Spock, love the name.

If you have a Regulator you don't need anything else. Now want is a different story.

Ok, brain dead. What IS this knife? 3/16 inch would be fine, but take the edge all the way to the plunge line and bring the choil all the way back to the mudder grip. Oh and make the blade 3 1/2 inch TOTAL LENGTH! I'd buy about 100 of them (if I had the money) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Oh and I also like RN's Mellow Kuk. THAT WOULD BE BADDDDD!

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The weiner dog in the store!

You’re right, Horn Dog. If you start with a 3 ½” wide strip and cut a Kukri out of it, you will waste plenty of steel.

Is that the only option? Can Dan get SR-77 (or some other Busse kin steel) in sheets rather than strips? A foundry that can make custom steels to order should be able to roll out sheets of metal as readily as strips.

Take a sheet 18” long by 4’ wide. Lay out a row of Kuks nested close together. 18” overall length, and as many as you can crowd onto your 4’ sheet of steel. Cut out each blade by laser or water jet. I bet you would lose far less waste steel that way. You could even design the shape of the knife to minimize waste and maximize steel in the knife.

You’d need small batches of test blades to see how well a given Kukri shape works. Those would be more expensive than the knives cut out of sheet steel. But once you’re into the mass production stage the price would come down.

Once you have the basic shape cut out, grind and heat treat as usual.

Rainwalker, can we have some dimensions on that thing? If it’s as small as it looks, it would have to be made of some thick stock to work as a chopper.

That would be sweet! 2-3" longer than the BRKT golok with upswept tip- oh yeah! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Something big, thick and with a mudder handle. I want a chopper. Oh and offer a sheath like with the reg and dereg. I love my dereg and sheath.

Scrap Axe, (Crash Axe)

fastcamo's 4" drop point hunter, 154 CM orange mudder handle

The Mountain Cur !

I'd like to see a wide bladed knife that could be used for a wide variety of tasks around a campsite.It would have a 5" long satin finished blade( satin because one use would be for food prep)with a handle around 4 1/2" long shaped very similar to the Ratmandu but with thicker Micarta slabs.
The blade would be a drop point design that is about 2" wide at it's widest point and similar in shape to a Nessmuk pattern.The steel would be 3/16" SR101 or INFI so it has great edge retention.
With it's wide, thin blade it would excel at slicing food stuff around camp but still plenty tough for chopping and shaping wood.
The edge would be convexed for slicing ability and toughness.There would be no choil with the blade merging flawlessly into the handle in a similar way to the SAR 5.
This knife would evoke images of grizzled mountain men of days gone by with their muzzle loaders over the shoulders and their knives hanging at their hips,the kind of men who lived in the mountains because it was their way of life and not a break from their 9 to 5 jobs!
I can see this knife stuck in a stump with flames from a camp fire reflecting off the shiny steel as people sip Bourbon and tell each other of their past outdoor adventures under a blanket of stars !

This knife will prove to all the naysayer's that the Busse/kin company doesn't just make sharpened prybars, that they also make real working blades for those that spend a lot of time actually out there using them for real outdoor tasks !!!