Glukhar (stainless bulat, rękojeść grab)

Chromium-added stainless bulat from the Zhbanov forge. A few words about the term "stainless bulat", which is itself an oxymoron. It is commonly known that historical bulats contained iron and carbon. The only admixture revealed in historical products on a larger scale was phosphorus (up to 0.15%). Contemporary Russian manufacturers try to produce knives from a material as close as possible to historical bulat, i.e., carbon. The problem with carbon bulat is that it is corrosive, and the customer may get upset if they find pitting on a knife worth several tens of thousands of rubles from a few drops of dew that they did not wipe off the previous day. Therefore, Russian blacksmiths sometimes add chromium to the alloy, and what is created is called "stainless bulat". This category includes knives from the Zhbanov forge, also known as the "Bulat noz" company. All stainless bulats from Zhbanov are hardened in such a way that the hardness on the cutting edge is 64 and on the butt 62 HRC.

In this variant of the Glukhar, instead of an expensive carved handle (as in the Glukhar-Cobra) or a stabilized one made of Karelian birch, we have a handle made of smooth black hornbeam with melchior fittings. Leather sheath, brown, with decorative embossing and a silent closure.

Total length: 257 mm

Blade length: 129 mm

Blade thickness (max.): 2.4 mm

Handle length: 122 mm

Steel (according to Russian designation): stainless bulat

Leather sheath.

Producer: Zhbanov Forge (Bulatnyj nozh), Russian Federation