My guard is stamped Sheffield and England. Post-war import?

Puzzled, tactics defined the blade, who else used them, and the tactics? Greeks?

From Spain, they say? Could the name mean where it was used most at the time?

Try knuckle knives, have some.

A knife designed for fighting humans would be double edged and robust enough to not snap at the hilt.

That thing in the kukri u refering as cho or smt is to prevent the blood drip to the handle to avoid slipping, it helps the blood drop and not reach the wielder's hand

Times have change in WW1 and WW2 there was no automatic weapons sowhen out of ammo you either charge with the bayonet or kukri but a bullets is faster than a charging Gurka charging with a silly looking kukri. Thisnis nor bravado but foolishness.

Absolutely, nothing spectacular here

Served with 17 Gurkha Bde and Division in Singapore, Malaya and Sarawak Borneo 1965-67. The black cats.

Good but you miss an important point, in FS fighting the reason for the longer knurled brass handle was so the pommel side could be used as a yawara stick, or kobutan. It's harder to wrestle if you have used the pommel side to break the opponents wrist. Was taught FS fighting by my Grandad, who was RSM of the KOSB. During WW2 he was one of the survivors of the white house defence, when 7th airborne KOSB were wiped out bar 4 survivors. He taught FS fighting at Sandhurst for the rest of the war. So to recap, the handle is as deadly as the blade, stab, he could scream, cracked his skull, he will just drop, if he doesn't drop, go round and see what's holding him up!!

The kukri is a hybrid utility tool/weapon. Think of it as having a plowshare and a sword without having to beat one into the other.

I have a Kabar and it's always been amazing. The only negative I ever heard was from a friend of mine who was a Sgt in the Marine Corps and was at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. He said it was so cold that it made the blades brittle and he said he saw several blades snap in two.

Because his mother had to name him something, and Phil is better then Something :) I now own 6 Khukuri's from Nepal. The one I just got, is pretty much a scaled down version of the Service No. 1, which has or at least mine does. A 10 inch blade. The newest has a 5 inch blade, which makes it very useful for camp/kitchen work.

The gladius comes from spain as well……..

I don't have any KA-BAR fixed blade knives. But i do have a KA-BAR Dozier 4062 lockback pocket knife.

the "cho" is there to redirect the blood from the Handle. Blood on handle makes it slippery and hard to handle in combat. "Cho" makes it the blood never reach the handle.

Hands down the m1918

Perfect for farming

Often forgotten or not known about is the Great Silk Road.Traders had been travelling between China and the middle east for many centuries. The route could vary but it is seen as a possible route for many items and ideas to have been transmitted over time including the use of the horse which was well established by the Steppe nomads in the east.

Cool how it flicks out I like it I always wanted 1

The most famous keris is keris patih

What are the two little knives that go with the Kukri?

Nice video but the Roman Empire and the Spatha lasted into the 1450s.

A shame they are so weak at the rat tang.

Yes, true

A bolo is not a kurki. But has overlap with it. One of your photos was a bolo not a kurkri. Enter the rabbit hole of blade definitions. I do prefer the bolo

I'm sorry but I've got to push back on this whole "blood drip" thing. It's quite a reach to expect all the blood to run to a single point during a fight with a constantly moving weapon as if it will never travel down the spine, down the flat or even in a vertical orientation, right over/passed the Cho. This has the same smell of the "Garand Ping" myth that has been repeated endlessly despite any practical analysis.

When unsheathing a kukri, never curl your fingers around the blade edge of the scabbard. If the scabbard becomes cut through due to the curved shape of the blade and incorrect extraction of the blade, you risk losing your fingers...

What about the radius?

You're obviously well studied, very articulate and quite clever. I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation! Thanks. 🤠

‘Unbeaten’ except they changed for the Spatha. So beaten by the spatha

Always take the route of the DA and not the coroner.... Carry what will actually defend yourself effectively with.....not some arbitrary tool that people with security details have the benefit of having...... All 🔫 & 🗡️ laws are unconstitutional.

Ka bar kukri

It doesn't even have a blood groove…

I almost cut my finger off with this knife so I gave it to my ex girlfriend

Real cool video. I love it!

I won my first Ka Bar in a Super Bowl bet with a Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant in 2003 at Camp Wolf, Kuwait. Unfortunately, the Ka Bar company has let quality slip. They make great presentation pieces and wall-hangers, but they're no longer a knife I would trust with my life. The ones made by Ontario aren't as pretty, but they are MUCH better made.

That notch is to drip down the blood .

Fast. Too small video (?).

"Anything larger (than a knife with a blade under 3.5") can make things harder to conceal and carry without any worthwhile benefits" Wait, what? If you can comfortably carry around a knife with, say, a 6" blade -- it most prob _will_ give you pretty worthwhile benefits in a self-defense situation. And something like a 9" blade? It's long enough to skewer an average person right through or to deliver a 3.5" deep stabbing wound from 5.5" farther away compared to a 3.5" blade knife. That's a pretty darn worthwhile distance advantage, as anyone who did any fencing would say. One more thing is that, like Lynn Thomas (the founder of Cold Steel) has been saying, most times, with a wrist-snap cut, you don't use all the blade's length. So you take a 3" blade, apply a cut on a fast-moving target, and it's hard to use more than 1.5-2.5" of that length each time. Now take a 6, or 8" blade and do the same... Size may not matter in bed, but it totally matters in the blade's length.

Any thoughts on the knives lineage from the Scottish dirk? Although Bowie was in Louisiana the number of Scotch Irish that populated the frontier is enormous I suspect would have carried dirks And eventually put a hilt on it.

I really wanted to watch, but can’t, just kidding I did watch it and subscribed and liked. But, every time you say “boh-he” I get distracted. Bowie is “booo-We” like “boo” I scared y’all, who got scared “we” did. Difference is Jim Bowie not David Boh-he. Great video though.

I wonder if that notch is a blade breaker, or blade deflection.

I think this was my first Mandela effect I noticed, In 'My' dimension it's Fairburn-Sykes lol.

Nice knife but shit steel

I've heard the ring also helped in drawing it.

Balisongs are exclusively Filipino in origin. Anyone that says otherwise is ignorant to the suffering, colonization and erasure of history of the Filipino people.

I'm in the U. S. and have a nearly perfect waved KRIS that I want to sell. Anyone have info on a good way to do this?

It is khukuri not khukri in Nepali.

Hmmmmmmmm.........So tell me again why people need a fighting knife, unless you think you're Rambo.