Shabaria "Wallpaper" scan

[James Mattis]

Click on the medium size image for a 1024x768 Shabaria "desktop".

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There are a lot of "Japanesque" factory knives out there now, but not many with a middle eastern flavor.

And (IMHO unlike another outfit's folding jambiya that they're calling a scimitar) this adaptation by the late Eduard Bradichansky is a knife you can do a fair amount of practical work with. One customer bought it to collect plant samples in a research project. The wasp-waste handle helps keep the knife in one's hand, coming and going, allows small hands a good grip on a full-size folder, and maybe that butt end might work as a "tenderizer." I haven't tried it. Bram ran a class on social uses for it in Israel earlier this year, and may have more to say about it.

Sal raised the idea, in the "culling" thread, of dressing this one up, like the Vulcan, in "Sea-Change G10". Anybody besides me think that would be a cool idea?


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- JKM
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[Big-Target]

I just saw that symbol on that knife. Didn't the designer of this knife, also design the spydercard?????

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Big-Target&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;I'm not called that because I'm an anorexic midget!!!

 

[James Mattis]

Yep. Same guy - Eduard Bradichansky of blessed memory. Israeli artist and custom knifemaker, among other things. The "symbol" is a stylized "EB" - his initials. The Shabaria is originally a traditional fixed-blade Arab knife from the Jordan River valley. He didn't live to see his designs go into production, but was murdered by terrorist(s) unknown not quite a year ago.

When the day comes when we can beat our swords into plowshares and our spears into pruning hooks, and finally forget about Amelek, we will still want recurve-blade knives for tending our vines and our fig trees.

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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001


[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 07-09-2000).]

 

[RDaneel]

Thanks for posting that pic, James. A really beautiful knife, in VG-10 no less.

Dean

 

[Blilious]

Originally posted by James Mattis:
Sal raised the idea, in the "culling" thread, of dressing this one up, like the Vulcan, in "Sea-Change G10". Anybody besides me think that would be a cool idea?

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I do!

 

[MarcoD]

I think it would be a great idea. The combination of the exotic blade shape and unusual scale material would be unbeatable.

 

[scorpio]

count me in for the "upscaling" of the SHABARIA it will be indeed one of the best looking knives out there with the new g-10
i'm all for it and i'll take 50!!!
thank you very much.
scorpio.