modified UBE with leather holster and two handmade folders

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fausto nasafiaschi

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If you guys want to see my UBE with its new leather holster and two large slip joint folders have a look at the last six pictures on my album:
http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?m=55075707303&n=1055209192
The UBE is a 16” which I got a while ago. I couldn’t get used to both the extra fat handle and the fact that the blade tip was digging through the original holster. I’ve sized down the handle to fit my mitts and made a leather holster for it, with extra room to avoid to see the tip finding its way out of it. The wood of the handle is still in need of a Walosi treatment.
The two folders are traditional Italian regional knives. The Maremmano comes from Tuscany and the Arburesa from Sardinia. These are large folders (especially the Arburesa, open is over 10”) which are still made the way they use to make them in the old times.
Ciao a tutti:)
Fausto
 
That UBE looks great. Let us know how it performs in the field.

n2s
 
Thanks N2S! I plan to take it out on a hike, sooner or later. If I would take any large size knife out for a leisurely stroll in down-town Genova I would be probably end up in jail!
Fausto
 
Fausto,

Great collection! I love the UBE, and the two spanish folders. I always meant to pick up a couple with I was station there back in the early eighties. ... Very nice indeed!

Alan
 
For Wal and Finn:

If you wish to follow Fausto's collecting methodology, here's a similar type folder that will match those monster UBE's youse guys got:

http://store.yahoo.net/gyby/navarban27.html
:)

[don't ask me how I ran across this, I don't even know how I managed to find it again a second time...]:confused:
 
Firkin, thanks for the link. I have always wanted a Navaja, and they have some beauties over there. And the prices are pretty decent, too. Have you ever ordered from them?
 
Jerry Van Cook posted the International Knife site on the Cane,Stick and Knife forum over at KF last year, and highly recommmended one of the Spanish Navajas. It is probably in the archives, but I haven't had enough coffee yet to make the attempt.
 
V,

Haven't ordered from them, can't comment.

Selection from Spain is impressive, some of the others are sparse. Nice looking stuff in general as far as I can tell.
 
Thanks, firkin. I found a really nice Navaja with a 6.5" blade, horn handles and brass bolsters. A work of art for only $60.00. Now to come up with the money.

I didn't browse the entire site, but it looks like no one makes a Navaja with a carbon steel blade anymore. But if the grades of stainles they use are heat treated right, they'd still be great knives. There's suposed to be an entire manual of arms on handling Navajas in a fight. Neat knives with a great history.
 
I didn't browse the entire site, but it looks like no one makes a Navaja with a carbon steel blade anymore.
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I kinda doubt that that's true, but it did seem like all the ones I saw on that site were stainless. I suspect that site has what they think they can sell the most of. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, but I bet at least a couple of the manufacturers work in carbon steel, and that site just doesn't carry those products. I'm sure if you use a search engine, you can find a carbon steel one somewhere, even forged, if it's important enough to you to bother. I like stainless for many kitchen knives and diving/boating knives, but you can't beat carbon steel for those special knives that really fascinate you.
 
I might do a search just for GP, but I did find one really nice 6.5 inch Navaja that had a stainless blade that looks mighty nice. I mainly wanted one with a carbon blade for "authenticity", but good stainless with a proper heat treat is nothing to be sneezed at. At any rate, it'll be a while before I get one. Tactical Knives did an article on Navajas about 6 or 8 months ago that was really good. Seeing a knife that big in someone's hands makes you realize just how massive a knife this can be.
 
There is a site in which all the major spanish cutlery brands can be found; over there you can find at least 3 makers for navajas and even place orders directly in Spain. I'm sorry I can't be more helpful but I've lost the address. Though, I remember finding it somewhere around blade forums. Prices were very decent.
Fausto
 
Uncle Bill Bro, Rusty Bro and a few others can testify that Barb and myself don't live in a very large house.
I have a really nice Spanish Navaja around here somewhere that's been where it can't be found for about a year or so now.
It's unbelieveable as to how things can get lost in such a small house, but knives can and do.
I have a real nice old timey butcher sort of knife that was also "lost" for about the same amount of time. Funny thing is that it was laying out in plain sight if you happened to stand on a chair.:rolleyes:

The Navaja I have was once advertsied in The Sportsman Guide. I found it at a gun & knife show and bought it for 1/3rd the price the Guide had it for!!!!
Dayumed nice stainless blade, very well tempered as it takes and holds an excellent edge, great fit & finish, nice stag handle slabs and great lockup on the ratcheting lock!!!!
I dayumed sure wish it would turn up again!!!!:mad:
 
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