Hartkopf Knives?

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ApocSurvivor713

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While I was vacationing in Germany, I wanted to pick up a nice German-made classic styled knife. I was able to look through a ton of little stores, and in one I found a couple of knives from a company called "Hartkopf". I picked one with a wood (IDK what kind) handle and brass bolsters, similar in size to a Kershaw Skyline. The blade has writing on it, and reads (translated) "Hartkopf, handmade. 4110 High performance steel. Solingen." I payed about a hundred euros for it. Did I make a good choice? I can't find anything on the manufacturer online, but just from the feel it seems nice. Sadly, the bolsters got a bit scratched on the flight home, but it's still cool.
 
Congratz - you made a great hit. IMO.

Hartkopf is one of the big german cutlery companies left. They are in one league with Böker Solingen, Robert Klaas, Hubertus etc etc.

I have a couple of Hartkopfs my own and they are all great knives and great users indeed.

Some pics of my F. Hartkopfs





F. Hartkopf is one of the best german cutleries... and valuable knives, too. Their knives are completelly made in Solingen.
 
I've had my eye on one of these, looks awesome!

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Here's mine, well-made little knife. I haven't really carried it a lot, it's a dress knife, and I reckon I'd look really lousy in a dress! :D

 
The knife shown by Trevor is a typical (german-style) hunting folding knife. As far as I know about hunting (and that´s not that much), the saw is for opening the deer. The blunted tipped blade is for gutting to prevent from hurting any organs and the knife blade is for general cutting tasks.

I was thinking about getting such a knife my own, but as I´m no hunter I don´t really have a use for this kind of knife.

But in any way - it looks really great, especially the stag handles.
 
Awesome! Good to know I picked a nice knife. Here's a picture of mine. It's a nice little knife, and probably my first traditional style knife.
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Apoc,

I´ve been eyeballing with that one, too. The scales seem to be ebony. Great shape! I think you have made a great decision on getting this nice piece of german cutlery.

I think it´s just one size range smaller than my lockback version shown above and with a nice spearpoint blade. Congratz once more.

BTW: The used steel 1440 is a great stainless steel and takes an edge long and keeps it quiete long.
 
I do get to deer hunt every year and that thing has the tools to do the job! The Main blade is for general cutting and skinning as well as starting the gutting process, after you make an incision on the stomach you insert the blunted gutting blade, that helps "unzip" the belly without puncturing the intestines and fouling your meat. The saw can be used to saw the pelvis or open the chest cavity as well as other bones I suppose, or just used to clear the small trees and branches in your field of view while out hunting. Anyway....I want one!:D I have noticed that there are other German companies who make a similar knife, such as Otter(i'll end up with this one I bet) Linder and Hubertus.
 
That's right. Thanks. Couldn't square that shaoe with skinning but knew it had something to do with not puncturing. I have seen the saws on some of those german hunters described as bone saws. Any difference between that and a wood saw?
 
Gutting blades are quite traditional in some European countries I believe, Germany in particular, but even Victorinox fit a gutting blade to some of their knives. If you look at the blade design of many traditional hunting knives, you can see that the shape of the blade (a clip-point for example) easily lends itself to resting a finger or thumb over the point while running it down inside the belly, which I think is what most hunters do. With a blade like the one under discussion, it looks like you wouldn't have to.
 
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