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A fillet knife (also called a filleting knife) is a kitchen knife used for filleting. It gives good control and aids in filleting. It is a very flexible member of the boning knife family that is used to filet and prepare fish. Fillet knife blades are typically 15 to 28 cm (6 to 11 in) long. This allows them to move easily along the backbone and ...
French nail. French nails were locally fabricated and converted bayonets, knives and stabbing weapons for use in the First World War. These were crude stabbing spikes made by adding a point to a steel stake which had its rearmost section heated and bent into a crude handle. A more elegant form of the weapon was the introduction of the Poignard ...
DICK is a German cutlery manufacturer founded 1778 in Esslingen, Germany. Known by their logo name of F. Dick, the company has three lines of business. F. Dick specializes primarily in butcher's knives and tools, where it is regarded as a market leader in both Europe and North America. [1] The company is known for its wide range of high quality ...
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An OTF knife, showing the sliding blade being extended from the handle. A sliding knife is a knife that can be opened by sliding the knife blade out the front of the handle. One method of opening is where the blade exits out the front of the handle point-first and then is locked into place (an example of this is the gravity knife).
The M3 replaced the earlier World War I-vintage Mark I trench knife in combat service. [3] The M3 was a true combat knife, as it was designed solely for military use and was primarily intended as a fighting knife, though some compromises were made in the design to conserve strategic materials.
The Cutlery Museum consists of three separate buildings within the city center and in a village nearby. [2] The first is located in the former "House of the Consuls" (a registered historic monument since 1983) and is dedicated to the history of the cutlery industry. In an adjacent building, there are demonstrations of the manufacturing of ...
Pesh-kabz, 18th century. Blade: gilt steel; hilt: gilt ivory or bone, Louvre Museum, Paris France. The pesh-kabz or peshkabz (Persian: پیش قبض, Hindi: पेश क़ब्ज़) [1] is a type of Indo-Persian knife designed to penetrate mail armour and other types of armour. [2][3][4] The word is also spelled pesh-qabz or pish-ghabz and ...