Knife scored :)

**Piipriker** · 31st March 12, 07:29 AM

today I was at a pipe show 1 hours drive from me, near Cologne. i didn't score a pipe, but a wonderful knife.

It's no real sgian dubh as it is larger, but could be used as one. The maker is a 21 years young frenchman, and he's already quite accomplished as craftsman.

The website is http://terre-de-forge.com
below a picture of the knife from his blog

Oh, forgot to mention that I went kilted. We were 3 there in a kilt. Well 2 kilts (me and a friend of mine) and one mockery of a kilt.

**herminator** · 31st March 12, 10:10 AM

Du warst also auch da! Schönes Messer!

Schalom
Hermann

**Mickey** · 31st March 12, 10:43 AM

Very nice! I love the handle. Very attractive piece.

**Ryan Ross** · 31st March 12, 12:18 PM

Oh yeah, that's a honey of a knife! Really excelent.

It looks like it was made through stock reduction, and is stainless... just two guesses. Is that correct?

**Piipriker** · 31st March 12, 12:48 PM

Thanks guys for the compliments, the handle is made from Cocobolo

@Ryan: no stock reduction, he cuts the steel out of bars. It's Sandvik 12c27, the same that Laguiole makes the knives. As he lives in the same region, I think, that he was trained there. His father, who manned the sales counter and speaks excellent german told me that his son does restorations as well.

He will send me a video of the fabrication of this very knife. I already saw it, because he had it running on his laptop. They will put the video on the website as well.

**Ryan Ross** · 31st March 12, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by Piipriker

Thanks guys for the compliments, the handle is made from Cocobolo

@Ryan: no stock reduction, he cuts the steel out of bars. It's Sandvik 12c27, the same that Laguiole makes the knives. As he lives in the same region, I think, that he was trained there. His father, who manned the sales counter and speaks excellent german told me that his son does restorations as well.

He will send me a video of the fabrication of this very knife. I already saw it, because he had it running on his laptop. They will put the video on the website as well.

Very cool. I was wondering about the specific steel, and you got an excelent one, from all I've heard.

BTW: The phrase "stock reduction" just means that the knife was cut from a bar of steel, ground to shape, and heat treated. Basically, that just means that the blade was not forged.

**Piipriker** · 31st March 12, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Ryan Ross

... "stock reduction" ...

I shouldn't have used google translator, but the American Heritage Dictionary or the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

**Really a McQueen** · 31st March 12, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Ryan Ross

... The phrase "stock reduction" just means that the knife was cut from a bar of steel, ground to shape, and heat treated. ...

Originally Posted by Piipriker

I shouldn't have used google translator, but the American Heritage Dictionary or the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

At least you did not use a cookbook to translate.

**Piipriker** · 31st March 12, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by Really a McQueen

At least you did not use a cookbook to translate.

I didn't know which one to choose, Paul Prudomme's Lousiana kitchen or "Too hot tamales"

**Ryan Ross** · 31st March 12, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Piipriker

I shouldn't have used google translator, but the American Heritage Dictionary or the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Oh, no worries, my friend! Your English is excelent, I think; I can't tell you how sorry this conversation would be if we had to rely on my German! LOL

Originally Posted by Really a McQueen

At least you did not use a cookbook to translate.

Hahahaha- Very nice.