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Comment by Bryan W on December 16, 2018 at 17:30

Excellent review DLKG!

Featured Comment by dead_left_knife_guy on December 16, 2018 at 10:47

This is definitely a Nepalese tourist-type kukri, but don't let that put you off the way it might if it was a pocket knife from Yosemite.  These tourist kukri are often made with the same quality of blade, because the forging process is largely going to be the same as the larger, more serious models.  The primary difference is going to be in the sheath & handle ornamentation (which is why it's so easy to peg this as a tourist model).  Like tourist machetes from Latin America, these tourist kukri tend to be the real thing, just "dressed up" to catch the eye of the tourists at the various markets.

I'd be a little more careful actually using it as a chopper, in case there happens to be a little more weakness where the blade attaches to the handle.  My concern here would be whether they cut corners by skipping the pinning process & just gluing the blade into the handle without the pin. It's hard to tell if there was a pin on this knife, since it could have been covered up by the bolster/handle ornamentation.

However, as this appears to be a smaller kukri, it will also travel better, & hopefully have a thinner blade overall, so that it will be more suited to cutting/slicing.  

In case you're thinking about selling it, unfortunately I'd doubt this kukri is going to have a high resell value.  Kukri in current production will likely sell for more than this piece, & the really expensive ones, at least from what I've seen, tend to be the ones that were military-issued during the British occupation of the area.

Regardless, hopefully you'll find something worthwhile to do with it!