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What knives from Germany?
- Thread starter pkd3
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I don't know what to recommend because I am not familiar with what it is you like in knives. There are some good to very godd knives made in Germany by companies like: Bulldog Brand, Linder, J.A. Henckels (not just kitchen knives), Herbertz and a few others.
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a few suggestions from a german knife-addict: Boker makes some very good integral hunting knives, 440C Steel and amboina wood handles, almost knifemaker-like, fair priced. Puma is well recommended for their traditional hunting knives (expensive, unfortunately), but avoid their "tactical" stuff. Linder has propably the best relation price-value. Their "Super-Edge"-line, made of ATS-34, is similar to the swedish fallknivens for half the price. And my no.1 personal advice: Klotzli from Switzerland: Excellent!! It's not too far from Germany to Switzerland once Your friend is over here...
greetings, arno
a few suggestions from a german knife-addict: Boker makes some very good integral hunting knives, 440C Steel and amboina wood handles, almost knifemaker-like, fair priced. Puma is well recommended for their traditional hunting knives (expensive, unfortunately), but avoid their "tactical" stuff. Linder has propably the best relation price-value. Their "Super-Edge"-line, made of ATS-34, is similar to the swedish fallknivens for half the price. And my no.1 personal advice: Klotzli from Switzerland: Excellent!! It's not too far from Germany to Switzerland once Your friend is over here...
greetings, arno
hmmm...where to start???? When I was stationed (while in the AF) at rheinmain ab back in the late 80s I bought many a knife!!!!
German cutlery these days, much of it isnt what it use to be, but you can get some great knives over there. I use to buy linder nicker knives, boker sidelock switchblades. hubertus nicker, and military knives. hirschkrone nicker knives. henckels pocket knives. herbertz hunting knives.
I believe the average price I paid for a NICE switchblade was about 90 marks at the time (about 60 dollars or so, considering the mark rate at the time). One of my favorites was a boker sidelock with re bone handles, I dont have the knife anymore.....makes my eyes tear up!
I lived in wiesbaden and use to walk to the henckels store three blocks from where I use to live. You can find good cutlery at the henckels over there, or in many drug stores. the only place I use to shy away from was some of the malls over there had some high prices.
hope this helps some, if you want specifics, email me!!!
German cutlery these days, much of it isnt what it use to be, but you can get some great knives over there. I use to buy linder nicker knives, boker sidelock switchblades. hubertus nicker, and military knives. hirschkrone nicker knives. henckels pocket knives. herbertz hunting knives. I believe the average price I paid for a NICE switchblade was about 90 marks at the time (about 60 dollars or so, considering the mark rate at the time). One of my favorites was a boker sidelock with re bone handles, I dont have the knife anymore.....makes my eyes tear up!
I lived in wiesbaden and use to walk to the henckels store three blocks from where I use to live. You can find good cutlery at the henckels over there, or in many drug stores. the only place I use to shy away from was some of the malls over there had some high prices.
hope this helps some, if you want specifics, email me!!!
hey guys,
Thanks for the response and information. This will be helpful. I usually favor the fixed blade full tang utility to large utility type of knives, and should have included that in the original post, but would also be interested in a quality edc folder of some type. Again, I appreciate you all giving the brand and type of info that you did and will forward this to my friend in Germany.
Phil
Thanks for the response and information. This will be helpful. I usually favor the fixed blade full tang utility to large utility type of knives, and should have included that in the original post, but would also be interested in a quality edc folder of some type. Again, I appreciate you all giving the brand and type of info that you did and will forward this to my friend in Germany.
Phil