Time for a new blade...

Small review / introduction to another knife obtained from a small bladesmith in Nepal. The so-called churi is a mixture of a modern adaption of a traditional knife and traditinal version of a modern knife. Sounds silly? Maybe, but it hits the point.

Whilest the blade (and the sheath made of 1000d cordura with plastic inserts) is more in the tradition of a modern bowie knife, the riveted full-tang contruction and the gripps made from water-buffalo horn are more traditional than the average "combat knife".

The blade is fairly thick (around 5mm) and has a mirror-grade finish. It is droppoint and single-edged and has a slight angle in relation to the handle. The full-tang blade is riveted to the grips with bronce rivets, which are aso polished very smoothly after attachment.

As mentioned before the sheath is made of black cordura with plastic insert for the blade. The handle is secured to the sheth by a velcro loop, which is the only feature, which disappointed me.

Overall, the knife performed very well, both whilest splitting logs into firewood and makeing fuzzsticks for lighting the fire. It holded its edge very fine and was easiely sharpened again.
After all, the very first survival knife, I would recommend to everyone travelling through the wilderness!