Uzbek knife - pichock.

[Rostovsky]

my small collection

 

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The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region of China

 

[MaximIsayev]

Nice collection, I've been wanting a proper carbon steel one for a while now, but they're kind of hard to find in the West, unless it's on eBay. I've always heard it pronounced as "pchak", no?

 

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Uygur:

 

[Rostovsky]

"pchak" too (also be ?). Тo buy easily in Russian online stores, America send

 

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According to ancient legend this knife gave his soldiers, Tamerlane. This can be seen in the painting the artist Vereshchagin "Doors of Tamerlane"

 

[Rostovsky]

Tajik knife "cord".