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Leather embroided carry pouch included, one of a kind, this product is fully imported from Indonesia and of high hand made quality. Blade is 21.5cm and handle at 10cm's (NAGA CHAKTI) rather heavy and would suggest safe shipment.
Knives are more than weapons. They are also symbols of courage and honor. In Indonesia, a knife can talk about the intensity relation between the knife and man’s character, the knife and nature, the art performance and the devotion to the ancestors and inheritance.
We make the design of each pieces based on brave story behind it. The inspiration for knives comes from epic tales of Indonesians. A knife that we create could therefore talk about the voice of the heroes from all over Indonesian Archipelago and reveals the beauty of it.
These sophisticated, traditional design, yet functional knife are artistically combined with decorated and carved handles which were made of materials: deer stag, rare and strong woods, and buffalo horn. The handle is fits and comfortably and feels second nature in the hand. The ornate carving on the surface of the blade and on the hilt is made by hand and represent the uniquely carving style from each region in Indonesia, from Bali the Paradise Island, Java, Sumatra, Papua to Kalimantan the Wild Jungle Ever Island where knife is their lives.
We use high quality materials of steel for the blade such as D2, 440C and ATS 34 and damascening blade. Damascening blades or here in Indonesia known as Pamor is one of Indonesian heritage. The materials for making Pamor are iron and nickel and our pleasure to maintain the making process of
Pamor in its traditional forge. Each of Pamor with various patterns in and on the blade has a name. For obtaining these patterns there are different forging techniques. Therefore there are many alternatives and possibilities of Pamor patterns with high aesthetic quality coming all from the great skill of Empu, the smith who forges the blade.
This combination insures a though, reliable knife that is superbly sharp and a work of art in beautiful harmony.
With those strength points, we introduces exclusive design lines include hand forged functional knives and axes, stag hunting cutlery, steel swords, combat and tactical knives, dagger and skinner, fisherman’s fillet kits and antique knives. It is believed that our antique knife holds the mysterious aura of the soul of the ancestral user and magic forces.
Damascus Steel
It is a type of steel that produced through dying of two layers Iron with Nickel, with different color, and then folded, heated and hammered repeatedly and folded up to 64 in normal blades and 4098 in very high quality ones to obtain intended pattern. After that the blades must be polished using different grain stones and carefully tempered. In the final phase the Pamor pattern is revealed with a solution of lime and arsenic powder. The end result is a tough blade with good edge quality. It is quite expensive and used mostly for its artistic nature.
OUR WORKSHOP
Our workshops are located in Bandung-West Java and Jakarta, Indonesia. There are 40 professional workers with good experience in making knife manually. The technique of sharpening and cutting is under guidance from Institute of Technology Bandung. Now our current production capacity is about 300 knifes monthly. In 2004 we got GOLD AWARD OF INDONESIA GOOD DESIGN SELECTION 2004 held by UNESCO.
