Two criollos

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Miguel Pennacchioni

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Hello everyone, I'd like to show a cuple of knives I did some time ago.
They are both criollos, the first one's handle is Itin wood, the blade is O1, with forging marks. It's 16 cm long.
The big one has a red deer horn handle, blade 420 MoV, 25 cm long. The engraving was made with ferric chloride acid.
Tell me what you think.


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Miguel
 
They are both nice.....the engraving turned out very well, too. :)
 
Superb looking blades!

May I ask though; what is the difference between a "criollo" and a "guchillo gaucho/facon" or are these just different terms for them?
 
Thank you guys! untamed; that is a good question. Criollo is used almost as a synonym of Gaucho, so both terms can be used when refering to the knife this men carry (or used to carry). Here in argentina though the term we use is Criollo knife, not Gaucho knife (I guess because for the rest of the world the word "Gaucho" is much more popular that "Criollo" some knifemakers use the term "Gaucho knife").
The Facon (from FACA: portuguese for Knife, and the ending "-ON" which means big) is another kind of knife used long time ago by the real gauchos and it was basicly a fighting knife, a lot longer that the criollo knives, made usually by broken sabers. The facon looks more like a long dagger with only one edge.

Miguel
 
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