Dan P.
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Reading the link on this thread;
http://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/showthread.php/26010-Carbon-sabatier?p=396816#post396816
with its references to "hand forged" integral "quillon" knives as early as the C. 17th made me very interested in the history of the Sabatier bolster/guard configuration. I suspect it's a load of bunk, myself, but am happy to be proven wrong.
I always figured that the "quillon" was a necessity of the drop-forging process that some clever soul found could be marketed as a feature, but perhaps I'm completely mistaken.
Does anyone know of any really old bolster/quillon knives of the Sabatier type? Or whether any Sabatiers of that type were ever really "hand forged"?
http://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/showthread.php/26010-Carbon-sabatier?p=396816#post396816
with its references to "hand forged" integral "quillon" knives as early as the C. 17th made me very interested in the history of the Sabatier bolster/guard configuration. I suspect it's a load of bunk, myself, but am happy to be proven wrong.
I always figured that the "quillon" was a necessity of the drop-forging process that some clever soul found could be marketed as a feature, but perhaps I'm completely mistaken.
Does anyone know of any really old bolster/quillon knives of the Sabatier type? Or whether any Sabatiers of that type were ever really "hand forged"?