Boréal olive wood barrel knife
Boréal barrel knife with an olive wood handle. An ingenious system: the blade folds into the handle and is locked in the closed and open positions by a catch fixed to the handle.
Features
- Weight: 83 g
- Blade length: 80 mm, polished finish
- Handle length: 120 mm
- Overall length: 190 mm
- Steel: 12C27
- Blade thickness: 2.6 mm
- Blade shape: drop point
- Handle: olive wood
The history of the barrel knife, also known as the "cod fisherman's knife", is as old as the fishing expeditions to Iceland immortalised by Pierre Loti in "An Iceland Fisherman". In their free time on board, Swedish fishermen used to carve pieces of birch, first to make toys for their children, then to make knife handles. The metal parts were made by the village blacksmith, who also fitted the parts to the handle. In 1874, Jakob Walfried Engström decided to make this knife entirely himself, from A to Z.
