chris, While I was still living in Boston and travelling home from the U.K. English Customs agents found a kilt pin ( don't ask ) in the shape of a broadsword in my carry bag ( I had forgotten about it ) after much discussion they determined that the "sword" itself was ok as it was made of pewter but it had to be confiscated due to the two inch clasp pin !!

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I have big pockets... :cool:

Yes, we've seen your lenses.

:D

I thought you were just happy to see us...

And besides...it's bent.

Actually it is a Gurkha Khukuri given to my dad by the 9th Regiment Gurkhas while he was in Chungking with MI9 in 1946.

SCHWEEEET !!!!!!

I'm thinking that that blade would elicit much excitement on "Antiques Roadshow".

Hey, carried that on every deployment.... had it made in Hong Kong from the ORMF.

If you throw it at somebody, and ya miss, does it come back?

Fuck. That.

If I throw that knife and I miss, it had better stay, boy, stay. I will come getcha. Yikes.

The boomerang effect is one of the myths of the Kukuri. The second one is that for every time a Gurkah removes his knife from the scabbard he must first cut his own finger and draw blood. Methinks they wouldn't have very usable hands if they did that! :eek:

The ones I deployed with used them more as a tool than anything else, they cut firewood, meat, dug holes in the ground, what ever they could use them for they did it. The myth carries a great story... puts fear in the non-believer.

Interesting idea, though - has anyone ever tried to make a sharpened steel boomerang?

(answer, yes, you want Tony-one-hand ... )

Reminds me of "Krull", I think it was. He had this three-bladed thing he threw, it would come back. Then the bad guy had an idea.

I'm trying to get an idea of what sort of stock that was made from. If you have calipers, would you mind taking some measurements for me?

A tracing of the blade portion would be awesome, too...

Bah. I'm just going to have to go find one to measure.