Weekend GAW

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augostos

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Hello!

We have some long weekends here. So I'd like to try GAW as this forum and its members are invaluable source on knives and related matters to me. I'd like to present an Uzbek knife, pichok, -- around 7" blade, totally handmade/handforged, carbon steel. Great for kitchen work.

I'll put similar to these three knives, though not these same ones. If you wish, you can indicate handle type.

The giveaway finishes at the end of Monday.

Just give me a number between 1-1000.

(The Spyderco Matriarch is for reference.)
 
I'll take 750 please.

Edited to add: Those knives look lovely. I would certainly be happy with any of the handles. Thank you for the generous opportunity
 
Yes, bolsters and the handle part in general is where most of the work and price differentiation goes in these knives. Because they are heat treated around 50-53 RC, most of the carbon or stainless steels can be easily used. The knife makers usually use leaf spring, valve materials, something like 52100. Fully hand forged and distal tempered. And there is no edge bevel, the blade is similar to a shaving razor -- fully flat grind. Thus, you might say that they cut by pure geometry.

Though the blade is relatively soft, it sharpens easily on any ceramics. So, basically, the blades are similar in affordable or expensive Uzbek knives. They differentiate in handles -- materials, embellishments, amount of work. Yesterday I saw a knife with a silver bolster, that add much to the price tag. But usually, the bolsters are tin, cupronickel or similar. Handles are type of horn, bones, sycamore, ebonite.

These knives are an adaptation to the surroundings: we don't have woods here, main stuff to cut were some living creatures, either for food or SD. So, don't expect much on bushcrafting side, but they are great as kitchen knives.
 
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