What is the blade in this video.

[Pragmatic]

link to FB video

It's tip heavy and curved concave around the blade
Is it curved enough to be a kukri?

[AOTA]

Looks like a machete blade with holes in it. https://www.google.com/search?q=mach...8X4QWcc8O_sc4M

[Celjabba]

look a bit like a Kilij, but I don't think they had edge on the inside curve...

An oversized Kukri is probably the closest.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

link to FB video

It's tip heavy and curved concave around the blade
Is it curved enough to be a kukri?

Yes, it's a kukri. It's just got a longer blade than is usual anymore

[Anthony]

Really, it's "lightweight tip-heavy blade, wielded with shortsword or knife".

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Yes, it's a kukri. It's just got a longer blade than is usual anymore

If you liked, you could call it a kopis -- shortsword rather than knife length. But current machete vendors seem to prefer "kukri" for that shape. Names are just cultural, and gurkhas have better recent marketing than Greeks.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

If you liked, you could call it a kopis -- shortsword rather than knife length. But current machete vendors seem to prefer "kukri" for that shape. Names are just cultural, and gurkhas have better recent marketing than Greeks.

No, I wouldn't call it a khopis at all. I believe I saw a style of a kukri grip on it.

I actually suspect that I've seen that exact blade in the A.G. Russell printed paper knife catalog (which I window shop through when one comes in the mail). I can't keep those sorts of catalogs around long (at least without becoming a horder) and my web searches have not been productive for this exact blade. For one thing Russell didn't make it themselves.

At any rate it was described as a kukri of a style more common a century or more ago with a longer blade with a more gradual curve than the shorter and more sharply angled (rather than curved) kukris you're likely to see msot often today.

[Pragmatic]

My first impression was that it was that type of sword that the ancient Egyptians used (Khopesh), but it wasn't "sickle-bladed" enough. So my next guess was kukri (mostly because of Dresden Files, where a lot of White Court vampires use them).

[The Colonel]

How about a machiara? Allegedly an ancestor of the kukhri based on Alexandrian invasion of that sort of area back in the day.

http://www.saxonviolence.com/item/falcata-machiara