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Melnais Ozols Hunting Knife
€ 460.00
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Melnais Ozols is a short fixed blade in damascus steel, hardened to 60–62 HRC. The handle is Gauja bog oak, wood that lay in the riverbed for more than a thousand years, with a bolster of deer antler and a thin copper-coloured ring. A brass eye sits at the pommel. It comes with a leather sheath, laced by hand and closed with brass snaps. Oak, antler and the pattern in the steel differ in every piece: you receive exactly this knife.
- Material
- Damascus steel, Gauja bog oak, deer antler, leather sheath.
- Dimensions
- Blade 98 × 32 mm, 3.2 mm thick. Overall length 224 mm. Hardness 60–62 HRC.
Details
Melnais Ozols is a short fixed blade in damascus steel, hardened to 60–62 HRC. The handle is Gauja bog oak, wood that lay in the riverbed for more than a thousand years, with a bolster of deer antler and a thin copper-coloured ring. A brass eye sits at the pommel. It comes with a leather sheath, laced by hand and closed with brass snaps. Oak, antler and the pattern in the steel differ in every piece: you receive exactly this knife.
- Material
- Damascus steel, Gauja bog oak, deer antler, leather sheath.
- Dimensions
- Blade 98 × 32 mm, 3.2 mm thick. Overall length 224 mm. Hardness 60–62 HRC.
- Care instructions
- Wipe the blade dry after use and keep a drop of food-safe oil on the edge. Do not leave it wet or wash it in a dishwasher. Keep the leather sheath dry and condition it now and then with leather balm. Wipe wood and antler with a dry cloth.
- Note
- Handmade. Colour, grain and the pattern in the steel vary from knife to knife and are part of the piece.
- Product reference
- 85301-2-1
- Materials
- Damascus steel, Gauja bog oak, deer antler, leather sheath
- Technique
- Hand-forged damascus blade, handle and sheath finished by hand
- Craft
- Hand-forged knives
Product safety and traceability
- Manufacturer / artisan
- AAKnives
- Origin
- Riga, Latvia
Safe use
Use only for the described purpose. Follow care and warning information and stop using the product if damaged.
Product safety and traceability
Meet the artisan
AAKnives
Riga, Latvia
Anri Anaņins hunted for twenty years before he put his name on a knife. He had fenced before that, and he still fishes. A hunter is nothing without a knife, he says, and the knife matters more than the firearm. Years of walking the stands at European shows led him to make them himself. Smiths showed him what a blade has to do to cut cleanly and still look like itself. He designs the knife. The steel is forged to that drawing by smiths who have worked metal for decades. In Riga, on the second floor of the old film studio on Šmerļa iela, the handle is shaped, the knife is put together, and the edge is finished. No two come out the same. The pattern in a damascus blade shifts, and so does the antler, the wood, the colour of a stabilised birch. A customer will sometimes arrive with a piece of bog oak or a length of antler, and the workshop builds the knife around it. They have fitted a handle in mammoth bone. The Prestige knives here are that kind of piece: one pattern in the steel, one handle, a sheath finished with it. The stock sits in Riga. The shop is open on weekdays, from half past nine until three. Saturdays they have gone fishing. Sundays, hunting.
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