Historical Knife Designs
Sept 6, 2010 8:20:00 GMT
Post by chrisperoni on Sept 6, 2010 8:20:00 GMT
My offering comes from my own heritage- Argentinian. Below I've listed links with details, but to paraphrase:
The people/culture is the Spanish gaucho- sort of a nomadic cowboy and rebel to the conquering Europeans- does this fit your idea? The knife I thought of looks like this:
-this is the kind of knife I used to see in pictures and in our home. I came to find it was a traditional Spanish knife used by the gaucho for everything- hunting, fighting, eating, utility- very all purpose and as I was taught it was a traditional and culturally important- something every proper Argentine would have. I knew it by the name 'facon' or 'faconito' (ito meaning little)--- according to the web the knife I show here is not a facon, it's a 'verijero' but I think what is described in the links below as facon would suit you well; the facon looks more like this:
-I remember a knife very much like this on a wall in some family members home...
Personally I think the names are all interchangeable depending on who you talk to and how they came to know the knife being spoken of. What seemed relevant to me was the fact that this knife never left the gauchos side even after being influenced/conquered by outsiders, and it was respected as being truly all purpose.
More on this stuff:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucho
www.aceros-de-hispania.com/facon-knife.htm
www.aceros-de-hispania.com/argentine-knives.htm
The people/culture is the Spanish gaucho- sort of a nomadic cowboy and rebel to the conquering Europeans- does this fit your idea? The knife I thought of looks like this:
-this is the kind of knife I used to see in pictures and in our home. I came to find it was a traditional Spanish knife used by the gaucho for everything- hunting, fighting, eating, utility- very all purpose and as I was taught it was a traditional and culturally important- something every proper Argentine would have. I knew it by the name 'facon' or 'faconito' (ito meaning little)--- according to the web the knife I show here is not a facon, it's a 'verijero' but I think what is described in the links below as facon would suit you well; the facon looks more like this:
-I remember a knife very much like this on a wall in some family members home...
Personally I think the names are all interchangeable depending on who you talk to and how they came to know the knife being spoken of. What seemed relevant to me was the fact that this knife never left the gauchos side even after being influenced/conquered by outsiders, and it was respected as being truly all purpose.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucho
www.aceros-de-hispania.com/facon-knife.htm
www.aceros-de-hispania.com/argentine-knives.htm
