All About Pocket Knives

Good afternoon.
As promised, I want to show you a knife after restoration of the handles and another purchase of mine.
And so, Solingen. In good condition, this knife has been used quite often. The blade still has a swan engraving on it.
It was restored by a very good master from Norway, Knut Dahl. He used two materials: mammoth ivory and whale birch, called hvalbjørk in Norwegian.

bought this wonderful gardener's knife. He was in very bad condition. I cleaned it up and I saw a wonderful knife that had hardly been used. When I retire, I’ll plant a garden and this knife will help me!
When I was a student at the Kyiv Agrarian Academy, an elderly teacher taught us fruit growing and horticulture, I don’t remember his name. And at one of the lectures he showed an old gardener’s knife that he got during the war in Hungary in 1945 (he ended the war on Lake Baloton) and was seriously wounded there. I don’t remember the name of the company that made that knife, but it was clear that he used it all the time and valued it very much. The teacher passed the knife into the classroom so that the students could see and touch it. I continued the lecture, and suddenly I saw the teacher’s face change and quickly walked towards one student and took the knife. It turns out that this student took a knife and began to cut off the legs of his arms. The teacher was very angry and did not speak to us until the end of the lesson. And that student did not pass the horticulture exam and was soon dismissed from the academy, for other sins (he was a very lazy guy). That's how I first saw a foreign pocket knife.

Dimi, that first knife is beautiful. A great job on the restoration. And your garden knife should serve you well. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting knives and stories about them. Sorry I don’t know anything about either knife, except of course they are of German origin. Thanks for sharing.

Ken

I like the blade compliment on the gardener knife.
Thanks for showing them.

Hello Dimi and Marry Christmas. Here's a KUNDE 2E 11 Pruner. Nice, strong working knife in excellent condition, I like "working" knives . regards, J.O'.

Great knives, and great story!
The first knife has been repaired beautifully. The man is a good craftsman!

Merry Christmas!
I would like to wish everyone a good Christmas and good luck in the New Year.
Sincerely, Dmitry Kruk!

Interesting knives, Dimi! Welcome, and Merry Christmas!

Are you familiar with the name John Kruk? He is a popular, former Major League Baseball Player.

Unfortunately, I am very far from baseball)
My late father told me that our surname came from a captured soldier in Napoleon’s army. If translated from Ukrainian, it means old raven.

Dimi wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 12:14 pm Merry Christmas!
I would like to wish everyone a good Christmas and good luck in the New Year.
Sincerely, Dmitry Kruk!

And Merry Christmas to you as well.

Good evening.
Maybe someone knows a good forum for Solingen knife lovers. I would be very grateful.
Sincerely, Dmitry Kruk

Dimi wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:23 pm Good.....

Doing just a simple, basic search on the AAPK site produced this.
You might find some helpful information in one or more of the posts.

Sorry, but I need something else. I want to know what the emblem is on the blade of my Solingen.
I know that Gustav Felix used the swan emblem in the sixties of the last century. I called this company and the specialist confirmed this information. But unfortunately they did not use the same emblem as on my knife. And he has no information about my emblem. He advised me to go to one of the Solingen knife connoisseurs’ forums.
Sincerely!