Other Iconic Traditional & Classic Knives? (Please Recommend)

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Dextar

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Hi there,

After having Laguiole and Le Thiers on hand, just wanted to collect other iconic traditional & classic knife.
Could you please recommend any of famous / good / iconic traditional knives you know for each country, region, place?

PS:
- better to be the EDC size but not something like machete;
- better to be hand-made;

e.g.
Laguiole - France
Le Thiers - France


Thanks!
D
 
Dextar said:
Hi there,

After having Laguiole and Le Thiers on hand, just wanted to collect other iconic traditional & classic knife.
Could you please recommend any of famous / good / iconic traditional knives you know for each country, region, place?

PS:
- better to be the EDC size but not something like machete;
- better to be hand-made;

e.g.
Laguiole - France
Le Thiers - France


Thanks!
D
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As a sort of aside -
I’m not sure why folks here consider the “Le Thiers” knife a classic, iconic, or traditional knife. It is my understanding that it was invented in the 1990s as a way to promote the cutlery industry of Thiers. It was defined tightly enough to be a recognizable pattern, but loosely enough for makers to put their own spin on it.

fr.wikipedia.org

Le Thiers — Wikipédia

fr.wikipedia.org fr.wikipedia.org

Back to your question:
Here are some iconic knives, I think:
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I only know production knives.
USA:
Single and double blade slipjoint folding hunter
Buck110
Western L66 (fixed blade)
Barlow
Loom Fixer
Sunfish
Stockman/Cattle Knife

France:
Opinel
Douk Douk

Germany:
Mercator Black Cat

England/Sheffield: Too many patterns to list.

Japan: Higonogami. (the brass handle models have Blue Paper Number 2 blade steel. Steel handle have SK-5, which is a "lower" grade. (no matter what Cold Steel claimed when they used it.)

Portugal: MAM

Spain, Italy, and The Czech Republic have several traditional knives, both slip joint,friction folders, and automatics.:


Switzerland:
Victorinx (your choice, the 58; 89; and 92/93mm are the most "traditional" IMHO)
Wenger Swiss Army Knives.(taken over bt Victorinox years ago. The 89mm Vic Evo Grip models are Wenger's made by Vic now)
Mora Number 1 to 3

Finland Puukko (Several makers)
 
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Just Tom. said:
As a sort of aside -
I’m not sure why folks here consider the “Le Thiers” knife a classic, iconic, or traditional knife. It is my understanding that it was invented in the 1990s as a way to promote the cutlery industry of Thiers. It was defined tightly enough to be a recognizable pattern, but loosely enough for makers to put their own spin on it.

fr.wikipedia.org

Le Thiers — Wikipédia

fr.wikipedia.org fr.wikipedia.org

Back to your question:
Here are some iconic knives, I think:
3yauVi4.jpg
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impacted by manufacture's advertisement and copy... 🤣
 
afishhunter said:
I only know production knives.
USA:
Single and double blade slipjoint folding hunter
Buck110
Western L66 (fixed blade)
Barlow
Loom Fixer
Sunfish
Stockman/Cattle Knife

France:
Opinel
Douk Douk

Germany:
Mercator Black Cat

England/Sheffield: Too many patterns to list.

Japan: Higonogami. (the brass handle models have Blue Paper Number 2 blade steel. Steel handle have SK-5, which is a "lower" grade. (no matter what Cold Steel claimed when they used it.)

Portugal: MAM

Spain, Italy, and The Czech Republic have several traditional knives, both slip joint,friction folders, and automatics.:


Switzerland:
Victorinx (your choice, the 58; 89; and 92/93mm are the most "traditional" IMHO)
Wenger Swiss Army Knives.(taken over bt Victorinox years ago. The 89mm Vic Evo Grip models are Wenger's made by Vic now)
Mora Number 1 to 3

Finland Puukko (Several makers)
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THANK YOU!! Will go through and research one by one
 
afishhunter said:
I only know production knives.
USA:
Single and double blade slipjoint folding hunter
Buck110
Western L66 (fixed blade)
Barlow
Loom Fixer
Sunfish
Stockman/Cattle Knife

France:
Opinel
Douk Douk

Germany:
Mercator Black Cat

England/Sheffield: Too many patterns to list.

Japan: Higonogami. (the brass handle models have Blue Paper Number 2 blade steel. Steel handle have SK-5, which is a "lower" grade. (no matter what Cold Steel claimed when they used it.)

Portugal: MAM

Spain, Italy, and The Czech Republic have several traditional knives, both slip joint,friction folders, and automatics.:


Switzerland:
Victorinx (your choice, the 58; 89; and 92/93mm are the most "traditional" IMHO)
Wenger Swiss Army Knives.(taken over bt Victorinox years ago. The 89mm Vic Evo Grip models are Wenger's made by Vic now)
Mora Number 1 to 3

Finland Puukko (Several makers)
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By the way, is "Tidioute Cutlery" an iconic one? I see a lot photos posted in the most popular thread.
 
Dextar said:
By the way, is "Tidioute Cutlery" an iconic one? I see a lot photos posted in the most popular thread.
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Currently a GEC brand.
Tidioute was a "high end" brand from the late 1890's(?) to the Depression, if I remember right. The early/"real" Tidioute knives are even rarer than the GEC models. Good Luck.
I think a total of one early knife has been posted here, not too long ago. I don't recall what thread, though, or precisely when. Might have been the GEC thread or the (traditional) toting thread? Or it might have been the "Old Knives" thead?
Sorry, me memory isn't as good as it used to be ... if it was ever as good as I think I remember it was ...
 

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I'm a huge fan of Finnish puukkos, they are probably my favorite design. I'd love to see pics if you got em. I'll start, these are the only two I currently own:
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Puukko indeed.

Despite all the number of choice artisan makers of puukkot here I've never been interested in ornate/costly puukko - they're a familiar working-tool to me. Worth noting that the word is used very generally here for any fixed knife- how can there be anything else??:D

Marttiini make a good and inexpensive puukko

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As for iconic knives, there are so many, you'll end up having more ikons than an Orthodox church :cool:

Look into CASE knives there you can find Americana icons: Stockman, Barlow, Trapper, Sodbuster just to mention a few. Sodbuster, the work knife appeared in the 60s and soon became widespread but its origins were from Germany- the wooden handled knives inspired CASE and others - Queen Cutlery, GEC et al. and are mainly synthetic for rough use. Here's a favourite from the now defunct Queen Cutler in D2.

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afishhunter said:
Currently a GEC brand.
Tidioute was a "high end" brand from the late 1890's(?) to the Depression, if I remember right. The early/"real" Tidioute knives are even rarer than the GEC models. Good Luck.
I think a total of one early knife has been posted here, not too long ago. I don't recall what thread, though, or precisely when. Might have been the GEC thread or the (traditional) toting thread? Or it might have been the "Old Knives" thead?
Sorry, me memory isn't as good as it used to be ... if it was ever as good as I think I remember it was ...
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thank you. and BTW, you can remember a lot more than my big brother does🤜🤛
 
Maybe check out the Svord peasants knife from New Zealand
MAM from Portugal
douk douk from France
Mercator by otter in Solingen Germany
the Lambsfoot from Sheffield England
The Case sodbuster and 54 pattern trapper are extremely iconic here in the US.
 
I took this picture for another thread but I feel it may fit here as well. These might not all be "iconic" to the region in which they've been produced but they are all "iconic" somewhere. From left to right and top to bottom:

Case XX - Sodbuster Jr - USA
Lionsteel - Bestman 2 (Moose) - Italy
Michael May - Lambsfoot - England
Rosecraft - Barlow - China
Higonokami - Friction folder - Japan
Boker - Barlow - Solingen
Victorinox - Officier Suisse - Switzerland
Okapi - Biltong - South Africa
Nontron - T12 Violin - France

https://imgur.com/a/7bEM9Nf
 
birdsbeaks said:
I took this picture for another thread but I feel it may fit here as well. These might not all be "iconic" to the region in which they've been produced but they are all "iconic" somewhere. From left to right and top to bottom:

Case XX - Sodbuster Jr - USA
Lionsteel - Bestman 2 (Moose) - Italy
Michael May - Lambsfoot - England
Rosecraft - Barlow - China
Higonokami - Friction folder - Japan
Boker - Barlow - Solingen
Victorinox - Officier Suisse - Switzerland
Okapi - Biltong - South Africa
Nontron - T12 Violin - France

https://imgur.com/a/7bEM9Nf
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THANK YOU!
 
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Friction folder from any EU country and Japan. Seriously, if you want an original folder, friction is the king

Barlow from the UK.

Kukri
 
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