Does anybody know where I can get a Corsican-style vendetta knife with a locking mechanism? Some cursory googling has turned up only the standard slipjoint ones or locking knives that don’t really look the least bit like a proper vendetta knife.
Well, what size knife? What materials, what quality, what are you willing to pay? What, in your mind, distinguishes the knives you’ve found from a “proper” vendetta knife? I assume that you want a spring-loaded locking mechanism?
An example of Corsican vendetta knives. I want one of this pattern with some type of mechanism to lock the blade open.
Would these count?
http://www.laguiole-southwest.com/corsicanvendettas.html
Those are very nice and nearly exactly what I want. Now to find a good price on them…
A high quality knife is never going to be that cheap. Knives are creations of precision engineering and quality, like watches used to be.
As the proud owner of a Randall #14, a Chris Reeve Sebenza, a goodly number of AG Russells, three (3) vintage Bali-Song Inc (later Pacific Cutlery, now Benchmade) butterflies, and sundry other trinkets, I am well aware that quality costs money. That, however, does not preclude doing some shopping around.