Picked up an Cold Steel ATC kukri made of Carbon V steel(man oh man I hate that no one makes this steel anymore).
Anyway I took it camping last weekend. Cut through a 6" standing but dead hickory as quick as an axe, then split the sawed logs just as slick as you please. Now for the rest of the story...It barely had an edge, I had spent a week cleaning up years of rust and corrosion from neglect from the previous owner and took it from butter knife dull to a just barely working edge(I thought) But it was the design that made it perform so well. I also can tell as a personal defense weapon this thing will strike terror into the heart of any person you face with it in your hand. I'm sending it to 8 Dollar Mountain Forge for one of his D hand gaurd (Trench knife knuckle duster) grips. No wonder Ghurkas cause Taliban fighters to run( lay them face down and beg their British officers to let them behead them with a single blow of their Kukris.)
