How Nepali KUKRI KNIFE is made?

This is the traditional way of making an authentic Nepali KUKRI knife - a historical weapon of the Ghurka soldiers.

“See this little notch I made here? Just below the grip? The legend has it that during the fight, it captures the enemy‘s sight within, and then the kukri can be hurled at him like a boomerang. It cuts his head off and comes back to the Gurkha soldier who owns it”, says a man sitting on a small stool in the middle of his metal workshop. His face half-hidden behind big sunglasses. Dark stains mark his white tank-top. “Do not believe it. The notch – shaped like a Hindu fertility symbol OM, or the hoof of a cow, the holy animal – is here to collect the blood of the enemy and prevent it from dripping onto the handle. This way, the Gurkha will never lose its grip on his knife.”

It is the second day we spent in the man’s tiny workshop, full of metal bits of different shape, sizes and purposes. For two days now, the grey-haired blacksmith is making a kukri knife for us — the famed boomerang-like blade used by fierce and courageous Nepalese Gurkha soldiers.

He makes it from a small piece of the leaf spring taken from the truck suspension — the most durable and yet the most flexible piece of metal. For two days now, the blacksmith puts it into the fiery throat of a small oven, dug directly in the workshop floor. Once the piece is so hot it turns white, the man starts patiently hammering it into the desired shape. His massive arm restlessly going up and down in powerful thrusts.

We sit on a bed squeezed into the far side of the workshop and look at the blacksmith’s work fascinated. In front of us, the small dirty-greyish metal stub evolves into a beautiful blade, like a clumsy caterpillar into a magnificent butterfly. It seems like the knife was there for the whole time. Hidden. Waiting for the blacksmith’s touch to set it free.

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0:00 Forging a knife.
0:28 Learning how to make kukri knife
1:17 What are the types of kukri knife?
1:30 What is the process of making kukri knife?
3:26 Is it a weapon of Ghurka soldiers?
4:20 What is the value of khukuri?
4:54 My skills.

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