Though you would like to see this one

Ivan Campos

Ivan Campos

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Hello

This knife has been with me for a good while - something like ten years, since I bough it from one of my mother´s shop neighbors.
It is of integral construction and has some interesting engraving on both sides, with the initioals "SL".Overall lenght is 8 7/8" and blade is 5 3/4" (for size comparison, I placed it along with the handle of a 20" Sirupati). The handle is brass, maybe it was turned and later hand filed, or just hand filed to shape.
This knife is a very serious fighter and I know little about its origins, except that it looks like teh knives from Corsega, but I never saw one like those with this kind of handle.
Over the years, I have sold a lot of the stuff I bough "for my collection" but this one seems to be a keeper.

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It may not be one, but the overall configuration reminds me of those "Goucho" (sp?) knives or Punals. I think they originated in Spain.
 
Sweet little blade, and I betcha that's the 20" Sirupati I just traded to Ivan for a couple of his sweet little blades. Glad to see it safe and sound in good hands. :)

Travis
 
¿Esta unica, Ivan, no? Hecho por mano, claro.

¿Y que tamaño el khukuri asi? asi, viente.

Un combinacîon de estilos, que creo, pero, ud sabe, knowing the size of the khuk... cool little hand-made, que creo.

I lived in Miami too long. Manners son egual, speak English, swear in Spanish. Speak Spanish, swear in English.

El cuchillo asi es bien claro como arte. Eso es seguro. I like it, gives me design ideas.


Ad Astra
 
that is a fun little knife, Ivan. I love the handle work. And the inscriptions....just great.
 
Hello again and don't be such a stranger, I've wondered where you'd gone.
 
As a matter of fact, I believe the knives from Corsega (of wich I suspect this one to be) and the Gaucho Knife have the same common ancestor, but this is in no way a Gaucha - different decoration, blade and handle shape and construction. Maybe it is a Faca de Ponta (the knife from the Northeastern part of Brasil), but I know little about those to be sure. Still, it would have common ancestors with the two other styles. When I got it had a crappy brown leather sheath but it was not original for sure. It was baldly damaged and broke in half soon.
What I kmnow for sure is that it is a serious, purpose-driven tool. And it is still sharp,by the way.
 
Thomas Linton said:
It may not be one, but the overall configuration reminds me of those "Goucho" (sp?) knives or Punals. I think they originated in Spain.
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A Gaucho knife, yes, or Arbolito made by Boker now is the first thing that occurred to me as well.

Check out the attached picture. Nice knife! Thanks for sharing.

Norm
 
Like the rest of the knife, the handle is purpose-driven and would not make sense in anything with the slightest utilitarian function.
 
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