One of the sweetest knives ever

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Matt Seling

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Hi Guys
I just returned from a beautifull trip with my girlfriend to the romatic city of Venice. A great place to spend new years.
In a little cutlery shop just off Strada Nuova I bought two of the most beautifull knives I own. They are traditional Italian knives made in Sardinia. They are called Pattada. One; my daily carry has some sort of raisin micarta like handle and brass bolsters and a blade length of aproxx 10 cm. The other my sundayblade is outfittet with mutton horn scales- no bolsters and sports 11cm blade. The blade shape is traditionally like a myrtle leaf.Run a search on Pattada Knives and you can see traditional italian workmanship at it`s best.
Both of the knives are excellent work knives no lock thou. They came shaving sharp with a crisp edge right out of the box and proved extremly usefull to our daily food preparations. Man you can eat in Italy!!!! Pricewise they were cheap. 18Euro for the smaller 35 euros for the horn handled one.

Glad I can share this with you.

Matthias
 
I visited the same shop last Spring while my wife went looking at shoes. The custom selection was a bit pricey, but a very nice selection indeed.

Venice is lovely, but Munich is one of the few places outside the USA I would like to live.
 
I bought a beautiful Italian auto at, what I believe would be the same shop. Our cruise then took us to Istanbull. We were stranded there on 9-11. We were warned about luggage searches at the Istanbull airport (took us five hours and three luggage searches to get to the plane) and as a result, I threw it overboard prior to leaving the ship...sniff, sniff. :(
 
St. James and Richard I guess you mean the superclassy read expensive shop near San Marco. They have a good selection but are very expensive. My Shop was in the Canareggio district. A little neighbourhoodstore one would almost miss. Arrotino was the name of it.
Yes Munich is a beautifull City, great beer anfd Food. Now I live in Cologne worse beer but better nightlife.
If you get a chance to go to venice send my a mail and i might give you some enlightening tips.

Matthias
 
Matt, I never knew the name of the street and got turned around on my directions. The shop I'm referring to was approximately three blocks (canals) off of St Marks Square toward Murano Island and a block or so off of the Grand Canal.
 
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