I recently bought a cold steel kukri. I did not know what to expect, so I will give a little review of it before I get into my post.

I got one of the lower end Kukris from Cold Steel. I think I may have paid too much for it, but I didn’t want to drop 100$ just yet on an HI model. The knife itself is solid, and hefty enough to do some solid chopping, which is about the extent of what I have used it for so far. I have used to shave some kindling off of a log for my fire pit, which is where I practice most of my fire craft. My only real issue so far is the factory edge. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was pretty dull. I know it is a lower end model, but I wasn’t expecting it to barely chop wood! It would literally bounce off of some of the logs I had on my woodpile. Well, about five minutes with a file and it was sharp enough to do most of the chores I needed it for (i.e. brush clearing, limb chopping etc). Overall, the price was right, it seems very strong, and it has held to edge that I put on it pretty well.

Now, to the meat of my post, what now? I know that the Ghurka's use this knife for everything from fighting to food prep, but most of the techniques I find on the web are for fighting. Can anyone give me a good resource for different techniques for employing a Kukri other than as a machete? There may not be anything else it can do besides chop, but I am just very curious about what else I can do with it.

Garrett