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As I wrote in my short introduction I'm a great lover of Italian traditional knives.
I'm 43 years old and I'm always been interested in knives since I was a small child. Growing up my attention was directed almost exclusively to Italian folding knives and their beautiful shapes. I have a small collection, I'm in contact with a lot of people with my own illness for knives and I'm active on several facebook groups. From time to time I like to visit a museum or try to convince some serious collectors to show me their original specimens.
I can't consider myself a great expert or a great collector, but I like to seek with modesty and determination the information I care about.
Italy has a great tradition in knives, with a great variety of local models that have been handed down through the centuries with a sort of natural evolution process and with the influences of other nations shapes. In this post I would like to share with you a synthesis of my personal journey in this tradition, sharing with you information about specific knives, their manufactoring areas and other facts.
I hope you will appreciate what I write in the next days!
I'm 43 years old and I'm always been interested in knives since I was a small child. Growing up my attention was directed almost exclusively to Italian folding knives and their beautiful shapes. I have a small collection, I'm in contact with a lot of people with my own illness for knives and I'm active on several facebook groups. From time to time I like to visit a museum or try to convince some serious collectors to show me their original specimens.
I can't consider myself a great expert or a great collector, but I like to seek with modesty and determination the information I care about.
Italy has a great tradition in knives, with a great variety of local models that have been handed down through the centuries with a sort of natural evolution process and with the influences of other nations shapes. In this post I would like to share with you a synthesis of my personal journey in this tradition, sharing with you information about specific knives, their manufactoring areas and other facts.
I hope you will appreciate what I write in the next days!
(take a wild guess at my heritage 
) In this context, LionSteel does some "outstanding" work; my gold TiSpine Elmax is amazing. 
Although there are lots of titanium framelocks, not so many are of top line Maniago quality, though I grant they are certainly not traditional. I was speaking of Italian knife quality in general, while waiting for the OPs examples of "traditional" (hopefully aside from stilettos) 
