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Intro
The "resolza" (or "pattadese") is the traditional handmade folding knife of Sardinia.
Since mid XIX century is the cutting tools of every shepherd or hunter of this beautiful Italian Mediterranean island.
The traditional resolza has horn scales, the 12 cm long blade is in carbon steel and the shape is typically as the Myrtle leaves. We are speaking about a friction folder here, no blade lock at all, just the friction between the blade and the horn scales. The pivot of the traditional resolza is filled throughout a metallic ring (usually brass, or silver sometimes) that made stronger the connection between blade and handle.
There is a beautiful museum of Resolza in Sardinia, named Culter-Museum, in Pattada
http://www.culterpattada.com/default.aspx
(Traditional Resolza by Santino Pudda)
RESOLZA by Extrema Ratio
Its not easy to modernize a traditional knife like resolza. Extrema Ratio made this operation, and the result is RESOLZA
RESOLZA blade is 12 cm long, and the blade shape is like his traditional ancestor as the Myrtle leave. Also the handle has a similar shape of the traditional knife. Materials are completely different instead: steel blade is N690Co, handle is in Aluminum Anticorodal. Again, in E.R. RESOLZA we may found a liner-lock
RESOLZA specs (by Extrema Ratio site):
Blade: N690Co stainless steel (58HRC)
Hanlde: Anticorodal
Blade lenght: 122 mm.
Blade thickness: 3,0 mm.
Total lenght: 268 mm.
Weight: 93 g.
Blade lock: Liner Lock
Blade finishing: MIL-C-13924 (stone-washed blade available)
RESOLZA is a well made tool. Precise working, nice fit and finish. The blade is deadly centered, the opening is really smooth. No blade play at all. In summary, my first impressions are really good. RESOLZA is not a small folder, anyway is compact enough to be putted in trouser pockets or Maxpedition Fatboy side pocket. The weight also is acceptable.
RESOLZA handle is long, the knife is light and handling it is easy and safe. Anticorodal is grippy enough to have a safe handling. Opening the blade request two hands (no thumb-hole), folding the blade also request two handles initially but after some exercise you may remove the blade lock and folding the blade with just one hand
How about carving wood. The 3,0mm thick blade is full-flat grinded, is really sharp and just work great on wood. Making notch or making point is really easy. Feathers are also easy to made. Not bad at all.
RESOLZA, as his ancestor, is a knife that you may use nicely to prepare food. Vegetables, meat, cheese, bread, no matter you may cut always easily. The open structure of the handle allows for a deep rinse with water, what I like.
Paper, cardboard, plastic, ropes: RESOLZA work nicely on these materials, with precise cuts. The edge is still sharp also after some work on these kind of materials.
Resuming, RESOLZA is, in my opinion, a well-made modernization of the traditional Sardinian folding knife. Is versatile, light, robust, in few words a really good EDC knife
Cheers,
AD
The "resolza" (or "pattadese") is the traditional handmade folding knife of Sardinia.
Since mid XIX century is the cutting tools of every shepherd or hunter of this beautiful Italian Mediterranean island.
The traditional resolza has horn scales, the 12 cm long blade is in carbon steel and the shape is typically as the Myrtle leaves. We are speaking about a friction folder here, no blade lock at all, just the friction between the blade and the horn scales. The pivot of the traditional resolza is filled throughout a metallic ring (usually brass, or silver sometimes) that made stronger the connection between blade and handle.
There is a beautiful museum of Resolza in Sardinia, named Culter-Museum, in Pattada
http://www.culterpattada.com/default.aspx
(Traditional Resolza by Santino Pudda)
RESOLZA by Extrema Ratio
Its not easy to modernize a traditional knife like resolza. Extrema Ratio made this operation, and the result is RESOLZA
RESOLZA blade is 12 cm long, and the blade shape is like his traditional ancestor as the Myrtle leave. Also the handle has a similar shape of the traditional knife. Materials are completely different instead: steel blade is N690Co, handle is in Aluminum Anticorodal. Again, in E.R. RESOLZA we may found a liner-lock
RESOLZA specs (by Extrema Ratio site):
Blade: N690Co stainless steel (58HRC)
Hanlde: Anticorodal
Blade lenght: 122 mm.
Blade thickness: 3,0 mm.
Total lenght: 268 mm.
Weight: 93 g.
Blade lock: Liner Lock
Blade finishing: MIL-C-13924 (stone-washed blade available)
RESOLZA is a well made tool. Precise working, nice fit and finish. The blade is deadly centered, the opening is really smooth. No blade play at all. In summary, my first impressions are really good. RESOLZA is not a small folder, anyway is compact enough to be putted in trouser pockets or Maxpedition Fatboy side pocket. The weight also is acceptable.
RESOLZA handle is long, the knife is light and handling it is easy and safe. Anticorodal is grippy enough to have a safe handling. Opening the blade request two hands (no thumb-hole), folding the blade also request two handles initially but after some exercise you may remove the blade lock and folding the blade with just one hand
How about carving wood. The 3,0mm thick blade is full-flat grinded, is really sharp and just work great on wood. Making notch or making point is really easy. Feathers are also easy to made. Not bad at all.
RESOLZA, as his ancestor, is a knife that you may use nicely to prepare food. Vegetables, meat, cheese, bread, no matter you may cut always easily. The open structure of the handle allows for a deep rinse with water, what I like.
Paper, cardboard, plastic, ropes: RESOLZA work nicely on these materials, with precise cuts. The edge is still sharp also after some work on these kind of materials.
Resuming, RESOLZA is, in my opinion, a well-made modernization of the traditional Sardinian folding knife. Is versatile, light, robust, in few words a really good EDC knife
Cheers,
AD
