some knives from Barcelona

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i just got back from a trip to Barcelona. I found some knife shops like this one:



I bought 4 Nietos and 1 Joker, I also saw some Muelas but they didn't catch my eye.





this guy was sharpening knives with bicycle power:



Barcelona is a beautiful city.
 
Those are some nice looking knives - great mementos of your trip. The guy on the bike looks like he wondered what you were doing? OH
 
Nice! I like the center one. Nice color combo with the blue & white and the red pivot. How is the fit & finish?
 
Hope you had a great time in that most beautiful of European cities. Great to see your souvenirs! :) :thumbup:
 
Are there many knife shops in Barcelona? I will be there later in the year so any info would be welcome.
 
I know this shop well. Nice souvenirs you collected there.

Most Spanish towns/cities have a knife shop. Or look for a hunting/fishing shop and they will have knives for sale.
 
Very cool photos and find~ Liking the jokers, I agree with Casares, no photos but I've found knife shops in the UK, Czech Republic, France, etc that carried many a selection. Even one by a castle xD
 
Looks like a nice haul you got there Trey999, all of them have have beautiful covers. :thumbup:
 
Very cool knives! I love the pic of the sharpening setup, thanks for sharing. Sounds like you had a nice trip.
 
I took the wife and kids to Barcelona earlier this year. Sadly, I didn't pass by any knife shops, but we did have a GREAT vacation there. I'd go back in a second. And thanks to trey999, now I know where to shop. :D

-- Mark
 
Thanks- another whole nation of knives for me to covet.
Great sharpening rig; does the stand swing up so he can pedal between sharpening sites?
 
Awesome, get fit and provide a service at the same time!

Did all the knives offered have this general look to them? I assume that is the type of knife that is popular with their culture?

Nice ones regardless, thanks for sharing.
 
We also saw a man sharpening knives on the back of a motorcycle but I didn't get a picture.

I was really hoping to find some knives made in Spain that I hadn't heard or, or better yet to find somebody making his own knives but I like what I got. The fit and finish is really good on all of them. These seemed to be the general style of most of the knives I saw there.

There was a little knife store in a crafter's type village and we stumbled upon 2 more. The internet listed a couple that we didn't get to. Also, some of the stores had cases of knives. But mostly all I saw were Nietos, Jokers, Muelas, SAKs and some Opinels.
 
Those are some wonderful souvenirs, trey!! :thumbup::thumbup:
I visited my daughter in Madrid in late Dec./ early Jan., and we traveled to 6 Spanish cities, but not Barcelona. One of my favorite parts of the visit was finding cuchillerias in each city and checking out the knives. I bought at least one knife in each city (except Madrid, where the shops I found were not very impressive); they're fantastic mementos of my visit.

- GT
 
Cool knives! I'd love to go to Europe, some day. So many places I'd like to Visit. I have a thing for French knives, Swiss knives, German knives, Spanish knives, Italian knives, Scandanavian knives, etc... :D
 
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