Good knife shops in Buenos Aires?

[sevilla]

I´m going next month to Buenos Aires (Argentina)to spend some weeks. Does anybody know good knife shops in that city? I´m specially interested in Argentinian military knives. Any source for them? Thanks in advance.

 

[Soloman]

I was in BA last summer. I never found any purely cutlery stores, the kind that would be selling military style knives, but I did pick up a sweet blade nonetheless. There's a chain of leather stores in BA called El Nochero--besides expensive leather products, this store carries native style Argentine fixed blade knives. The blades are from Solingen (Boker and Co) and there are several handle options. Mine has a five inch drop point blade with a leather braided handle and a silver pommel--very snazzy. These knives are not tactical or military in style, but are worth checking out. Ask around about the store, there are several located in Buenos Aires.

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[sevilla]

Thank you very much for your info, Soloman. I´ve already got some typical Argentinian and Uruguayan knives, but I´ll give a chance to El Nochero. Anyway, it´s a very good starting point to find what I´m looking for. Thanks again.

 

[Will Kwan]

Try a search on one of the custom knifemaker's sites. One of the graduate student I worked with mentioned a custom maker with a store in Buenos Aires that was quite famous. Sorry I can't rememeber the name but I did find his address by doing the search.

Will