The extremes of the Piedmontese “pocket” knife

Wednesday 11th September, 2024 - Bruce Sterling

*That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a regional “Piemontese” knife with those exaggerated, nurderous, Spanish navaja proportions.

*I hope he enjoyed making that. It’s a fantasy-weapon more or less, but it really has the attributes of a classic piemontese carried into a context where it doesn’t make a lot of sense.





*Here’s a modern martial-arts enthusiast demonstrating a navaja. A formidable weapon with quite a dismal repurtation for covert bloodshed in its heyday.