So I’m calling this sensational officers Kukri the Alpha Pro kukri because it is a one of a kind superior close quarters weapon that exemplifies the spirit and character of the Alpha Wolf.

So I’m calling this hand made Khukuri House Interwar British Officer’s Kukuri the Alpha Pro kukri because it is a one of a kind superior close quarters weapon that exemplifies the spirit and character of the Alpha Wolf.

The male alpha wolf is the strongest male of the pack. He mates for life with the alpha female wolf. While the rest of the pack serves their Alpha leaders.

And so it is with human kind. There’s the alphas, and there’s the betas. The leaders and their followers.

I like to think of myself as an alpha male. I’ve written and published six books. While I’m constantly comparing myself to Ernest Hemingway. But I will admit straight off. As a writer I cannot hold up Ernest Hemingway’s jockstrap. But I have chosen my own models for my book. And shot all their pictures with my digital cameras. I’ve created all my book covers from scratch. I typeset all books. So essentially my books are as close to handmade as it gets.

Hemingway acquired a double barreled elephant gun--a 477 Nitro Express which he kept until the day he died. Which is why I ordered a sensational officers kukri from Kuhkuri House.

Hemingway’s elephant gun was virtually hand made. So like Hemingway, I felt I needed to get a weapon to represent myself even though the weapon will only serve as a decorative ornament. As well as my alphapro web site now going strong for twenty-five years.

Hey, I’m the chairman of this condo community here in Thailand. And I have been chairman for seven years now. I’m the guy who has to protect the other members of the pack. I need to be strong. To be able to make the deadbeats pay their bills on time. And to make sure our condo has its financial affairs in order. Repairs done efficiently and not having to pay too much. My best friend here just died. He was an alpha like myself. He was the glue that held this condo community together. Although I’m the guy who always ran our once a year condo meeting of fellow condo owners. With Richard gone, there are no alphas left.

The question is, like Heminway, I need something as a constant reminder to myself as who I am, and what I need to keep doing to lead this pack of betas living in this building I’ve been called upon to govern.

Do I buy a Japanese katana to represent who I really am and what I believe in? Or a much cheaper Chinese copy of a real Japanese sword?

I shall choose a beautifully crafted Nepalese kukri such as high ranking British officers bought as a symbol of rank while serving in the far East?

One of my best friends is Japanese. When I told Takoi I had two Japanese swords made by the Chinese,

Takoi replied. “They aren’t the real thing. You must buy Japanese sword in Japan. “

The trouble is the few swordsmith’s in Japan are highly paid elite craftsman. The real thing made in Japan costs around $5000 and that’s only a bottom level rock bottom price. What I have in mind is a real Japanese sword that will represent my alphapro web site, the alpha wolf, and myself. In the form of a custom made handle fashioned in the form of a wolf’s head or a special design on its blade featuring the alpha wolf. I thought about joining Takoi in Japan. And that we’d find a Japanese swordsmith who would create a masterpiece for me. But I figure on having to pay $10000 or so.

So how about a custom Chinese made replica of the real deal from Japan?

With all due respect for those Chinese professional swordsmith’s who actually exist where would I find one? And if I did, could I trust the man?

Hey, I’m still chairman of this condo commmunity here on Wongamat Beach in Thailand, and we won’t even buy a Chinese water pump to supply drinking water for the residents. We will always buy an American Hayworth water pump or Australian equivalent for $800 over a $300 pump made in China. We’ve found the Chinese pumps won’t last more than six months or so, their warranties are worthless and parts are unavailable for them.

My two Chinese copies of Japanese swords simply aren’t good enough to represent me or my web site. And even if I would fork over two or three thousand dollars for a Chinese made katana, all of them are basically mass produced. While being likely to fail to live up to my standards for a what represents the alpha wolf and myself.

I decided that my answer would have to come out of Nepal. After all, some of the finest warriors on earth have come out of Nepal.

These are the Gurkhas. Who come from very poor families from the Himalayan Mountains. As soldiers the Gurkhas have a History as tough and courageous soldiers. Even today Great Britain chooses 400 Nepalese Gurkhas out of 7000 applicants to serve in the British Army every year.

The Kukri to the Gurkha warrior is equally sacred as the Katana was to the ruling Samurai in pre 1870 Japan. It is a fearsome lethal weapon which modern day Gurkhas still carry while serving in the English Army.

So I went to the Kuhkuri House web site where I found out that I could custom order any style of Kukri that I could dream up.

And wound up choosing a sensational officers kukri that high level English officers were custom ordering from Nepalese kamis (those making kukris). Kuhkuri House is selling these historically authentic weapons as the British interwar kukri which represent the finest level of fit and finish that British officers serving with the Gurkhas could buy from 1918 to 1940.

But I would transform this interwar Officers kukri into my alphapro special edition limited to just one example. And that would be totally mine featuring the alpha wolf on its blade.

Notice the x that is engraved right below the alpha wolf engraving. This x is the signature of the Kami (master craftsman) who created my special alphapro kukri entirely by hand. He’s signed it with pride.

Notice all the details on the resume Kuhkuri House supplied me of the craftsman (kami( who created my sensational officers kukri. The kami is Rakchhu Dev Biswakarma. He’s signed his own resume with Kuhkuri House. While he’s etched his mark, X, which he carves into every kukri he makes. Obviously Rakchu is very proud of his workmanship. You won’t find such signatures on Chinese copies of real Japanese katanas and if you do they are likely to be fake.

What I especially like about Khukuri House is its unsurpassed level of customer support,

For example, while detailing exactly what I wanted on my custom Interwar officers kukri, Namaste who I’ve been dealing with for years expressed a little doubt about the quality of the alpha wolf image I had sent to Khukuri House. Then after the Rakchhu had finished the kukri Namaste sent me a picture of the kukri he was about to send off to me.

The Kami had put the picture in the middle of the blade. I did not like it. I found a much better picture to send to Khukuri House of an alpha wolf that I had scrimshalled on my Colt 45 Single Action Army revolver.

And sent it off to Khukuri House. The kami repolished the blade of my kukri, and two weeks later Khukuri House sent me an officers kukri that perfectly showed off my alpha wolf design. Fortunately I was good enough in graphics design that I could rip the wolf’s head off my Colt, and edit it in Paintshop Pro. This resulted in a superior image that I could send off to Khukuri House.

I now have ten kukris from three reputable Nepalese companies. Himilayan Imports, Tora Blades and Khukuri House.

I find the integrity of all three companies to be top notch. What I especially like about Khukuri House is it offers an unsurpassed degree of selection. You can get a kukri that’s up to chopping down trees. Or just about any handle material you want. You can specify the length of blade you want and how thick you want it. And you can have it engraved anyway you want it.

About the sharpness of Khukuri House kukris

You will notice that you can specify how sharp you want your kukri to be from Kuhkuri House. My sensational officers kukri comes just shy of being able to shave your face like a razor. But it you want to shave with it, have at it. Khukuri House pulls no punches here by informing its customers that it will not guarantee a blade that the customer insists will be razor sharp.

My alphapro custom interwar officer’s kukri is the lightest out of all ten of my kukris. It exhibits outstanding workmanship and attention to detail. It is every bit as light as un ultra fast fighting bowie. While possessing outstanding lethality. But most important of all, It’s the real deal out of Nepal. If you want to find out why I suggest that you watch this video showing how a kami creates a handmade kukri from scratch.

The best Nepalese Kukri is the World War I Tora Blades Mark II, which also served in great numbers during World War II

This latest version of the Tora Blades Mark II is (so far) the best Nepalese Kukri I own.

Why am I calling this latest Tora Blades kukri the best Nepalese Kukri?

In the middle of my video I demonstate its lethality againtst a very well made World War II model from a competitor using balloons. Now don’t laugh. Because the late Bill Bagwell used balloons to demonstrate why he thought the “fighting bowie knife” is the finest close quarter blade of all due to the unique design of the sharpened portion that makes the deadly backcut possible.

Click here to get Bill Bagwell “The deadly Back cut.”

But a lot of knives are called Bowie knives. And justiably so. Due to their inheriting the bowie knives unique principles.

But the fighting bowie is an entirely different animal from all its imitators.

The bowie knife had its heyday in the 1830’s through the 1850’s when it was used in hundreds of duels, particularly in the deep South. In his book, Bowies, Big Knives, and the Best Balle Blades, Bagwell describes how New Orleans alone accounted for an average of one fatality a day in such duels.

Unfortunately Bill Bagwell died so I can’t ask him to create a genuine Bill Bagwell fighting bowie for me. But I commissioned Mark Morrow to make a real Arkansas fighting bowie for me.

Which I beleive to be just as outstanding as one of Bill Bagell’s masterpieces. A real fighting bowie such as those used in the first half of the 19th century is a knife of exquisite quality, lightweight for its size, beautifully balanced, and awesomely lethal if its owner knows how to use it.

I believe that my video demonstrates that the Tora Blades Mark II is not only the best Nepalese kukri I own. But also the most lethal kukri in my stable.

I compare it to the San Mai Cold Steel kukri that Cold Steel’s owner Lyn Thompson demonstrates in this video.

Click here to get Cold Steel’s video on the outstanding cutting and thrusting qualities of their San Mai Kukri.

As outstanding as the Cold Steel kukri is, I believe the new Mark II kukri to be not only the best Nepalese kukri but quite possibly even superior to Cold Steel’s Gurkha Kukri with its very expensive and razor sharp San Mai blade made from Japanese laminated streel.

Cold Steel’s Lyn Thompson put another video up on the Cold Steel web site where he demonstrates the Gurkha kukri’s cut and thrust prowess. In that video Lyn Thompson emphasizes that “not all kurkri’s are created equal”. In the video Thompson once again swipes away at a hog’s carcass. Only this time he thrusts at the hog carcass using its point to demonstate that a kukri designed with its point angling downward can make big holes in the carcass with little effort.

After watching Bill Bagwell’s you tube video demonstating the bowie knife’s deadly backcut and Lyn Thompson’s video that emphasizes Cold Steel’s Gurka kukri’s thrusting capabilities I came up with my own Jack Corbett theory of what makes the World War I Tora Blades Mark II designed kukri superior to the later World War II designed kukris. And use my own balloon test. To demonstrate that the deadliness of the back edge of a fighting bowie is incorporated into the design in kukri’s including the Tora Blades Mark II and the Cold Steel Gurkha San Mai Kukri. (I have two Mark II kukris. Click here to get my video that proves my first Tora Blades Mark II kukri is the Best Nepalese Kukri due to its light weight.

Which now brings us to the quality of a Tora Blades Mark II kukri compared to a Cold Steel San Mai Gurkha kukri. Or even an equisite hand made fighting bowie.

Although I don’t have a Cold Steel San Mai kukri, I have a Cold Steel San Mai Trailmaster bowie knife. That uses the same expensive Japanese laminated steel. While I also own a gorgeous Mark Morrow fighting Arkansas bowie knife knife to compare it to.

In the hand the Mark Morrow fighting bowie is lightning fast. And as for its quality it’s perfect. Flawless. It took me one and a half years to get it from Mark. One reason it took so long is Mark had been unable to get deer antlers that met his rigid quality standards. Mark is also a historian.

And my Mark Morrow fighting bowie has an unworldly feel about it. Which captures a certain spirituality that the finest made fighting bowies no doubt possessed.

Hold it. While pretending to thrust and cut at an imaginary enemy and the blade seems to move by itself. Automatically. As if a spirit is directing it towards the killing zones of an enemy it’s encountering. Nothing surpasses a Mark Morrow fighting bowie.

So I am not about to contend that the Tora Blades Mark II kukri equals a Mark Morrow blade’s quality. But it comes pretty close. While it equals Cold Steel’s San Mai blades based on comparing it to my Cold Steel San Mai Trailmaster.

And the best kukris are created by master craftsmen who create each kukri with loving care.

For example, I received my Tora Blades Mark II with a certificate of authenticity that is signed and dated.

Cold Steel mass produces its products. While the Nepalese make kukris entirely by hand.

Tora Blades also include a Kukri check list for each kukri that bears the signature of the checker in the following areas, 1. Blade, 2. Handle, and 3. Scabbard.

This signed checklist guarantees there are no flaws in the kukri’s fit and finish. And that it completely passes both a nail and paper cutting test. So if it’s not razor sharp it comes awfully close.

It is no wonder that the Nepalese gurkas terrified the Japanese soldiers they faced.

Just as much as they terrified their German and Italian opponents on other fronts. But how about the man behind this awesome hand to hand combat weapon? How did he fare one on one against a Japanese officer wielding a Katana? Along with his rifle the Japanese officer carriesaKatana with its 28 inch blade. His skills are legendary. Even today the Gurkas are often considered the finest soldiers in the world. This is a long video, but I think you will favor the Gurkha when you finish viewing it.

Click here to watch the “Britains Nepali Warriors video on YouTube

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