L’Artigiano Scarperia “HISTORIC HUNTER’S KNIFE” – C70 / Buffalo horn – 100 % Custom Handmade in Scarperia Italy

L’Artigiano Scarperia “HISTORIC HUNTER’S KNIFE” – C70 / Buffalo horn – 100 % Custom Handmade in Scarperia Italy

This historic hunting knife is made with a fine buffalo horn handle and equipped with pins for unscrewing the flintlock percussion nipples and cleaning the touch hole. The blade is in brushed c70 steel.

THE HISTORIC HUNTER’S KNIFE

It is an ancient hunter’s knife in the Tuscan tradition with pins for unscrewing the flintlock percussion cap nipple and cleaning the touch hole. This model is cited in the book by Luciano Salvatici “La passione di un collezionista”, a collector’s passion. The originals are exhibited in a number of museums and private collections. Recent research leads us to believe that these knives were also used in other regions.

Important note on these types of knives: These types of knives are still produced by the manufacturer today in almost the same way as decades and centuries ago. This also means that these knives do not have a modern “blade stop”. As with a traditional Laguiolle from France, you should therefore “always close the blades quietly”. This means that you should not let the blade snap into the handle of the knife, otherwise the edge of the blade will hit the inside of the back spring, the edge will fold over and the knife will become blunt. If it does happen, perhaps because you have given the knife to a friend, you can quickly straighten the edge with a ceramic rod and a few strokes and restore a good edge.