Ungentlemanlike - Traditional Bad Boy Knives

Just Tom. said:
To be honest, I’m not exactly sure what a hipster is. Maybe we don’t have them around here.
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From Mr Oxford "a person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream". So it's kind of an oxymoron, how can it be a latest trend and fashion and not be somewhat mainstream?
 
These AG Russell sowbelly folders at 4-1/4" closed length are fairly large yet still pocketable. When you open one up they look even bigger, lots of cutting surface here and a tall edge to spine profile. I still have the bottom two in the pic but gifted the cocobolo one to a friend. I carried the yellow one today and used it at the dinner table tonight in front of my wife to slice pork tenderloin. She is used to my knives and thinks nothing of it but I don't believe I get it out at a restaurant in front of others. 😃
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RayseM said:
:) Here is a quote from my friend Âchillepattada Âchillepattada - about these knives from Sardinia - "The Duce (Benito Mussolini, aka, Il Duce) was not confident with the Sardinian people. When they were not satisfied they had the bad habit to use their knife."
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Ray, I have to add that when I made a trip to the center of the island to buy some masks i love friends from the coast said me to be cautious because it's a region where kidnapping was a tradition 😂 . When I arrived to Gonario Denti, one of the most famous sardinian masks maker, he first invited me for a drink and I met his wife and mother in law. The lady spoke a perfect French because she had worked years near Paris. Then we visited Gonario's workshop and went back to his house for another dring. Then he invited me for the diner but I had to go back , and as I was there with my family, I didn't want to empty his fridge.
So Mussolini had to be careful with the Sardinian people ( and all the world had to mistrust him ) but I met incredible people, kind, friendly and really open-minded .


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How about a Punale? Popular with gentlemen and bad boys alike! :D :thumbsup:

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So, I got this red Douk Douk in the colour series, and it reminded me of this thread, and I forgot to post up my pictures! Btw, I thought it was just a normal carbon Douk-Douk but it is not, it's a 14C28n blade, definitely more stoked and happy with the price, was listed as regular "high carbon steel" even the picture is off on the BHQ site, as I notice they tend to neglect traditional knives... They were very offended at my asking for the veracity of their Higonokamis, because I would figure a place getting them direct from the family would know better than to say "Handmade by Nagao Higonokami...". That is as if they said "Spyderco knives, created and founded by Sal Spyderco, is a company that..." ugh, I digress, check out this Douk, and the rest...

https://imgur.com/a/oQr4NbA

The rest are all classics, that have been considered weapons at one point or another, be it in the case of the 110, the "Official Biker's Knife", the K55 Mercator, created 1869, leaving its humble German lockback origins to be in the hands of Bronx youth in the 1970s (and would supposedly be modified to swing open... oof, wonder how many lock failures that caused?), or the much maligned Balisong or my Italian-stiletto-style knife.

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This thread makes me wanna go out and buy a motorcycle today! Go hassle shopkeepers... "Hey, old man, you don't know me!"
😂 Will upload my part 2 to this thread today
 
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