Cool garage sale find

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Found this cool tramontina knife at a garage sale on Saturday. Seems to be in pretty good shape. Does anybody know how old it might be?

I’ve only seen Tramontina machetes, but some googling shows that they make / have made all sorts of hunting and fishing knives.

This one looks like a not as fancy version of the knife in this post THE Hollow Handle Knife Thread

All in all, not bad for $5!

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Cool!
The tramontina 26070/ cacador (hunter) "pantanal" (swamp) hunting knife.
Its gotta be at least 20 years based on that spanish aitor-like belt loop system.
So not only does it have a corkscrew and bottle cap lifter,
But there are a couple of wire bending notches...
oh, and a bullet shell extractor too.
Some designs in Tramontina's sporting/outdoors knife line are prety odd ball.
But, i guess that what makes them unique:)

https://issuu.com/trasmkt/docs/sport_knives_catalogue__24
https://www.scribd.com/document/269...δες-Sports-and-Craft-Knives-and-Pocket-Knives
https://www.tramontina.com.br/upload/catalog/1522267073_08_facas_esportivas.pdf
Enjoy the find!

Trivia: more on the belt loop
Some whie back, tramontina had a cloned brewer survival knife
http://www.donrearic.com/brewer.html
It was named the commander 3 (long discontinued).
Hence one woud find the same belt loop system
was utiized on a few tramontina models during that time period of manufacture.
Unfortunatey, the tramontina nylon webbing was rather flimsy.
It was not firm enough to stand upright ridgedly
There were problems with the lock up on the slip-in loop stop fixture,
Which joints up the two top sections of open ended pieces which forms the belt loop.

'80' predecessor

Tramontina corporate video
 
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GIRLYmann said:
Cool!
Its gotta be at least 20 years based on that spanish aitor-like belt loop system.
So not only does it have a corkscrew and bottle cap lifter,
But there are a couple of wire bending notches...
Some designs in Tramontina's sporting/outdoors knife line are prety odd ball.
But, i guess that what makes them unique:)
https://issuu.com/trasmkt/docs/sport_knives_catalogue__24
Enjoy the find!
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They did pack a lot of features into one design didn't they?

Looking at their catalog, the corkscrew on the handle seems to be a common one.

The belt loop is a pretty neat design, but the plastic knob to disengage it sits in just the right place to get pushed down when resheathing the blade.

Great link and info btw, thanks
 
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Neat! I'm always excited by Tramontina fixed blades (yes, I consider a machete a large fixed blade).
 
Never know when you're gonna need a nice chardonnay while long mileing it in the woods!
 
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