Gaucho knives and cuchillos criollos of South America

[cbach8tw]

Fair winds and following seas.

 

[screened porch]

Rory Calhoun!

The smaller Atahualpa that you have, what type of steel is that one ?

It doesn't say "inox" on it. There's so much black grease in the sheath that it hasn't occurred to me to cut food with it. I've just put it in a vinegar wrap, so we'll see. I'm expecting carbon.

 

[John A. Larsen]

Cello Dan, That is it, "The Way of the Gaucho" and the Hollywood start was Rory Calhoun. Did not remember Richard Boone being in it, but it has been sometime since I saw the movie. John

 

[John A. Larsen]

Cello Dan, Another movie on the pampas, but not all Gauchos, is "Savage Pampas" in 1966 starring Robert Taylor. John

 

[John A. Larsen]

Cello Dan I remembered I also have a knife from Argentina, from the "Restaurant La Cabana". On the blade inside a big diamond shape is a figure that looks like a radio antenna, a pole with several diamonds on top of it, and at the base it says "Rund Funk". Outside the big diamond it says "Industria Argentina". It came in a embossed leather sheath, but not sure what the figure on the sheath is supposed to be? My Father wrote on the back of the sheath "Buenos Aires Aug 14, 1972" so I know when he got it. I googled the restaurant and several photos of the knife showed up. John

 

[screened porch]

Are Atahualpa knives available somewhere and are they useable or just tourist souvenirs? Carbon steel blades.

See post 1,088.
All I have to say about mine so far I've said here in recent posts.

 

[cbach8tw]

See post 1,088.
All I have to say about mine so far I've said here in recent posts.

Thanks, I got the google translation too, good info, glad they make a good knife.

 

[screened porch]

Ju-ca has a website. They make three categories of blades: stamped, forged, and stainless. Their forged line is illustrated with a knife that looks a lot like the unstamped one I bought cheap.

[Right down to the rope-shaped rings.]

 

[kamagong]

I think we need a new family portrait screened porch .

 

[CelloDan]

What an awful civilized way of cooking steak
Verijero is rather disgusted

Blame it on the bad weather that kept us at the marina today.

Georgian Bay waves are much worse than a wild bronco and this gaucho here ain’t about to mess or try to tame them.

Looks like it’s clearing up !
Later

Well done as my “China” requested

 

[kamagong]

Being on the water sounds like heaven, as the weather forecast calls for triple digit temps for the next few days!

 

[kamagong]

Riddle me this --

When is a gaucho knife not a cuchillo criollo?

 

[Prester John]

Riddle me this --

When is a gaucho knife not a cuchillo criollo?

I dunno. When?

 

[screened porch]

When it's a cuchilla!

I have another one coming; definitely absolutely the last.

 

[screened porch]

I was thinking Cello Dan seems to have lost interest, but he told us he would be beyond the reach of the interwebs for a few days.

When is a gaucho knife not a cuchillo criollo?

I've read that article C.D. has linked for us more than once, but I still go glassy eyed.
I think cuchillo criollo is a cover term for any knife used by criollos. Including cuchillas?
Criollo = creole = mixed race, if I understand correctly. So maybe the non-gentry are assumed to be mixed race? So cuchillos criollos are plain folks' knives?
But when a verijero becomes a punal, and when a punal becomes a faca, are numbers I can't seem to keep in mind. That's why I call them gaucho knives.

This one's big brother should be arriving in a week or so.

 

[kamagong]

When it's a cuchilla!

I have another one coming; definitely absolutely the last.

Good guess.

Sorry for the silliness guys, but this is the knife I was thinking of. Fifteen, maybe twenty years ago, Boker offered a sodbuster that they called a gaucho knife.



It looked like it was a genuine Arbolito. It's no cuchillo criollo though.



I suppose we know what folder a gaucho would use if he was so inclined.

I was thinking Cello Dan seems to have lost interest, but he told us he would be beyond the reach of the interwebs for a few days.

I think CelloDan often goes nomad on La Serena during the summer months.

 

[kamagong]

Nice. Is your new knife coming from Harrison, Ohio and have an 8.75" blade? If so, I tried to make a play for it, but didn't stand a chance. I'm very excited for you, that looks like a great prize with the weird multi-directional polishing.

 

[screened porch]

Nice. Is your new knife coming from Harrison, Ohio and have an 8.75" blade? If so, I tried to make a play for it, but didn't stand a chance. I'm very excited for you, that looks like a great prize with the weird multi-directional polishing.

Thank you!
That was my max bid. If the clock had ticked for one more second, you'd have gotten it.
So fate! What can you do?
Those crosswise grindlines caught my eye too. Cello Dan talked about them a while back.
I'm hoping the black stuff is just dried grease or some such.

 

[SwissHeritageCo]

I'm more drawn to the ones with wood handles. The metal sheaths are neat but something about the metal handles reminds me of grandma's butter knives. Sacrilege, I know.

 

[kamagong]

I'm more drawn to the ones with wood handles. The metal sheaths are neat but something about the metal handles reminds me of grandma's butter knives. Sacrilege, I know.

Lol...can't disagree with you there. Although I vastly prefer wood or stag handles, part of me wants a metal handled one because they are neat as you have noted. They are an archetype of the genre.