Shark (H12MF steel)
Description
An H12MF steel knife from the Maruszych brothers' workshop, with a somewhat predatory profile. Indeed, to the eye of a European, there is something piratical, Eastern, Asian about the "Shark". We are simply not used to blades with a large curvature, and if they also have tips raised above the back line, we are reminded of Krasinski's "haidamack knives", with which the rabble slaughtered the gentry. In fact, these are simply practical field knives with a long cutting line, which make it easier to remove a hot pot from the fire than knives with a drop point profile. At the base of the blade, on the cutting edge side, the "Shark" has a blunted recess for the finger, allowing the knife to be gripped with two fingers on the blade. The handle is made of black hornbeam with a melchior fitting on the blade side and a mounting for a lanyard or wrist wrap on the head. It also comes with a very good smooth leather sheath, a Finnish type, push-in sheath.
Overall length: 284 mm
Blade length: 154 mm
Blade thickness (max.): 3.5 mm
Blade width (max.): 36.5 mm
Handle length: 127 mm
Leather sheath, push-in, Finnish type
Manufacturer: Maruszych brothers' forge, Pawłowo, Russian Federation