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The title of this thread is inaccurate. I have a daughter (whose name is NOT Bonnie) who currently LIVES (I prefer to believe that she tells the truth far more often than she LIES) over the ocean, in Spain. I took advantage of this situation by browsing some Spanish knife websites and sending her a list of what I'd like her to order for me and have delivered (with FREE shipping) to her apartment in Madrid. She could then bring me the knives when she comes home to visit. She came home in late June and brought the knives she'd ordered for me, so that I got some cool Spanish knives with NO shipping charges (other than 1000 bucks for a plane ticket - pretty clever, eh? 
). Here are my recent Spanish purchases.
I ordered a JJ Martinez campaña carbono ciervo, a stag sodbuster with carbon steel blade.
It's very similar to a bubinga-handled version of the knife I bought in Granada when I went to Spain to visit around the Christmas 2014 holidays:
Some of you may recall (http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...ish-Holidays/page3?highlight=Spanish+holidays) that, although I specifically requested a carbon, rather than stainless, version of my navaja de campaña in Granada, when I got home I discovered that its blade was stainless. Believe it or not, the same thing has happened with this web-ordered stag version!!
We specifically ordered carbon steel, but the knife my daughter brought home will not develop a patina at all! It's a lovely knife that I like VERY much, but still...
I also ordered another JJ Martinez knife, a marinera (sailor's) model with carbon steel blade (1055) and ABS (some kind of synthetic I assume) covers. The appeal of this knife for me is that it's a "working knife", it's solid but inexpensive, and it has an anchor shield! :thumbup:
And finally JJ Martinez got the carbon steel order right! Here's a shot of the marinera after a quick dunk in the juice of some hot pepper rings and then waiting coated with juice until I finished my meal:
The third knife I ordered from the Spanish website was actually a German knife, an Otter Workman with carbon blade and bubinga handles. It's a beast!
The fully-open blade doesn't look to me like it aligns ideally, but again, this is a low-cost user:
So those three knives were what I ordered, yet my daughter had one more package for me!!
When I had visited her in Spain, she took me to Toledo, a city once famous for its steel and still trying to capitalize on that reputation with current tourists - every other shop in Toledo seems to have knives, swords, or armor for sale. We happened to unintentionally find a cutler's shop that had just gorgeous swords and knives, way beyond my budget.
When my daughter told the maker this, he showed us his box under the counter where he kept the simpler (or practice?) knives that he and his apprentices had made. At the time, I thought those knives were too big for me to carry, so I didn't buy one; later I regretted that decision, especially when I found out that the maker, Mariano Zamorano, was a well-respected craftsman and was even featured in the popular Rick Steve's travel book for American tourists in Spain. My daughter apparently returned to Toledo recently, found the shop, and bought me this wonderful gift:
As you can imagine, despite some glitches, I'm quite ecstatic about my latest European blades!
- GT
). Here are my recent Spanish purchases.I ordered a JJ Martinez campaña carbono ciervo, a stag sodbuster with carbon steel blade.
It's very similar to a bubinga-handled version of the knife I bought in Granada when I went to Spain to visit around the Christmas 2014 holidays:
Some of you may recall (http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...ish-Holidays/page3?highlight=Spanish+holidays) that, although I specifically requested a carbon, rather than stainless, version of my navaja de campaña in Granada, when I got home I discovered that its blade was stainless. Believe it or not, the same thing has happened with this web-ordered stag version!!
We specifically ordered carbon steel, but the knife my daughter brought home will not develop a patina at all! It's a lovely knife that I like VERY much, but still...I also ordered another JJ Martinez knife, a marinera (sailor's) model with carbon steel blade (1055) and ABS (some kind of synthetic I assume) covers. The appeal of this knife for me is that it's a "working knife", it's solid but inexpensive, and it has an anchor shield! :thumbup:
And finally JJ Martinez got the carbon steel order right! Here's a shot of the marinera after a quick dunk in the juice of some hot pepper rings and then waiting coated with juice until I finished my meal:
The third knife I ordered from the Spanish website was actually a German knife, an Otter Workman with carbon blade and bubinga handles. It's a beast!
The fully-open blade doesn't look to me like it aligns ideally, but again, this is a low-cost user:
So those three knives were what I ordered, yet my daughter had one more package for me!!
When I had visited her in Spain, she took me to Toledo, a city once famous for its steel and still trying to capitalize on that reputation with current tourists - every other shop in Toledo seems to have knives, swords, or armor for sale. We happened to unintentionally find a cutler's shop that had just gorgeous swords and knives, way beyond my budget.
When my daughter told the maker this, he showed us his box under the counter where he kept the simpler (or practice?) knives that he and his apprentices had made. At the time, I thought those knives were too big for me to carry, so I didn't buy one; later I regretted that decision, especially when I found out that the maker, Mariano Zamorano, was a well-respected craftsman and was even featured in the popular Rick Steve's travel book for American tourists in Spain. My daughter apparently returned to Toledo recently, found the shop, and bought me this wonderful gift:
As you can imagine, despite some glitches, I'm quite ecstatic about my latest European blades!
- GT
:thumbup:
. I hope your father-in-law doing OK. Thanks for sharing.
