New Old Stock Pino Extra 12" Round Nosed Slicer Carbon Plum + Pin & Disc Handle Maniago, Italy ~1950s 60s
New old stock Pino Extra 12" round nosed slicer made in Maniago, Italy, most likely in the 1950s or 60s. The blade is hand-forged, hand-ground carbon steel, and the handle is hafted in what appears to be plum wood, set with brass and steel pins and disc rivets.
These are part of a batch of unused vintage Italian knives we have found and are very unusual to come by, these were not exported to the United States very much and show up used hardly ever. I can count on one hand the number of vintage Italian knives of this era I have found in 20 years of dealing in vintage knives.
This is a great example of historic small-industry knife-making from several small towns in Northern Italy. Like French knives of this basic construction, they were made to be affordable work knives in their day; little vanity was paid to the finish, but they have a lot of charm.
The blade was originally unsharpened, not flat when set down on a level surface, and profoundly dull. Typically, we leave new old stock knives with their original factory edge to preserve the history of their manufacture, but these were not quite usable. We have taken the liberty of flattening the edge, thinned the faces for better geometry, and sharpened the edge so the knife can be used. There are some irregularities in the blade's hand-forged construction that make it a bit difficult to achieve laser-straightness and eliminate small undulations on the face, but nothing like it is made today.
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New old stock Pino Extra 12" round nosed slicer made in Maniago, Italy, most likely in the 1950s or 60s. The blade is hand-forged, hand-ground carbon steel, and the handle is hafted in what appears to be plum wood, set with brass and steel pins and disc rivets.
These are part of a batch of unused vintage Italian knives we have found and are very unusual to come by, these were not exported to the United States very much and show up used hardly ever. I can count on one hand the number of vintage Italian knives of this era I have found in 20 years of dealing in vintage knives.
This is a great example of historic small-industry knife-making from several small towns in Northern Italy. Like French knives of this basic construction, they were made to be affordable work knives in their day; little vanity was paid to the finish, but they have a lot of charm.
The blade was originally unsharpened, not flat when set down on a level surface, and profoundly dull. Typically, we leave new old stock knives with their original factory edge to preserve the history of their manufacture, but these were not quite usable. We have taken the liberty of flattening the edge, thinned the faces for better geometry, and sharpened the edge so the knife can be used. There are some irregularities in the blade's hand-forged construction that make it a bit difficult to achieve laser-straightness and eliminate small undulations on the face, but nothing like it is made today.
