Coming from the post about Ukrainian knives I would like to have a post similar to the Jeans post the other day.
Outdoor knives are more of a niche topic, but it plays well with some of my outdoor hobbies and knowing your options is also fun, so please keep em coming.
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Republic of Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- https://www.opinel.com/
- https://lethiers.fr/les-fabricants/ → collective of firms that encourage handcrafted knives
- http://forge-de-laguiole.com/ → more pocket knives
- https://tb-outdoor.com/fr-be
- Germany
- https://www.schnitzel-germany.de/
- https://www.boker.de/en/ → includes many brands and different production sites.
- https://www.eickhorn-solingen.de/
- https://odenwolf.shop/
- https://www.schmiedeglut.de/ especially the famous Sacki Messer
- https://solinger-messer.de/collections/messer
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Honorable Mentions
I was going to recommend Gerlach from Poland but damn, it seems they’re now only into kitchen knives?
Back in my youth literally every scout boy would be running around with their „finka” (translates to Finnish woman, IDK why) knife.
France: https://tb-outdoor.com/
The company that forge the CAC, the French army knife. Very good one for camping. Corkscrew included 😁
Contribution from my cool boss who is a knife enthusiast:
Belgium has both cultra.be and https://atelier185.be/, the first really high quality
My father has one from bulgarian https://duloknives.com/, very nice
I’ve seen these several times, however, not owned one unfortuantely https://www.anvknives.com/ they are Czech
Austria’s very nifty craftsman: https://www.lilienstahl.com/
We have own own Danish riceknife.dk very small very praised
Other than Fiskars in Finland there is also roselli.fi very cool hunting/outdoor knifes, I have one
The name is not protected, so there is many Laguiole, but this is the original: forge-de-laguiole.com sp nice
Then there is German Zwilling and Wüsthof of course, not that sexy but German :wink:
On the obvious list we have Victorinox huge and comercial from Switzerland
Then a very old and very renowned Norwegian one is https://helle.com/
Spanish arcos.com is also very famous and respected
Thanks to you and your cool boss. Do you also have a not so cool boss, too?
I actually have 2 cool bosses. The other one is a hacker with ties (but I believe not membership) with the CCC, who has worked helping establish humanitarian tech companies in Africa and who self-hosts whatever he can.
Sorry dude, but I envy you 😂. Let’s swap places.
France: Opinel
Norway: Helle
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Finland:
MarttiiniGermany:
Solinger MesserSwitzerland:
Victorinox
WengerI usually always also recommend a knife manufacturer from El Salvador, but I won’t, cause they do the US’ dirty work right now.
Ehm, there ain’t any knives on Wenger’s website.
Huh, TIL.
Maybe Victorniox Wenger → a small pocket knife series?
Just read up on it. Wenger has split off their knife department, which belongs to Victorinox now.
I am honoured to have been helpful with my initial post. I’m a happy owner of a Varusteleka Jääkäripuukko 140 (FIN), a BPS Knives Savage CSH (UKR), a Victorinox Sentinel and a Victorinox Spartan (CHE), and some glorious Opinels: n°09 Carbone, n°09 Inox, n°12 Carbone (FRA)
Oh… a fellow knifeaholic. (Peltonen, Morakniv, Victorinox, Böker, :)
I still haven’t a Mora Companion, a classic among classics to have. But I’m not that deep into scandi grind. Anyway I always think about it
