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I have a small Hippekniep which I bought last summer at Schloss Burg - a castle museum near Solingen. I liked it so much that I bought a K55K a couple of months ago! I have Opinels and a Joker folding knife but the solidity of my two Otters is unbeatable. I love the way the smoked oak scales and steel liners are so beautifully flush with each other, and that big old rivet holds the blade super steady. It rarely leaves my pocket!
I have several of them and made my own Ankermesser with plum wood on my own during an Otter knife workshop in Solingen. I can only recommend to do this as well if you are planning to visit Germany some day.
I really like your collection of Solingen knives. I also buy one from time to time, as a gift from me to me. "Hippekniep" means "goat knife" in the local dialect of Solingen, so it's the traditionell knife of the goatherds and shepherds. It's a common type made by several Solingen companys.
It's hard to go wrong with an Otter-Messer knife. I'm not usually one for integral frames or "cold," covers like metal or stone but I love my Mercatur knife, it's all the knife most people will ever need.
I have the anchor knife with bone handles and blue blade but i use it every day since i’m german and i can get them easy. Greetings from Hannover, lower Saxony, Germany :)
As I’m starting to type, I think we may have most of the same Otters! I’ve the exact same Sodbuster (Hippen… something!), three different Mercators (black, brass and a non-locking brass), the regular Anchor (which I use a lot, as it’s UK legal), I don’t have the pear, but I do have the 3 rivet and plain version of it, but without the rivets, which are very similar and the white bone Anchor with the blued blade is also the best Otter in my collection too! Again, I don’t carry mine either. It’s a wee bit big and I’m scared to death of scratching the blade! It’s probably tougher than I think, but I don’t know. It is beautiful! I’m not sure how I missed this when it was first published.
These fill a gap gec will never fill, mostly because these are actually in stock and not inflated in price, and actually more available than GEC will ever be
I recently subscribed. Great channel. After watching this video, you inspired me to seek out Otters. I picked up the Large Anchor Bone, Beekeepers Plum and 3-Rivet Grenadil. All 3 for $276 delivered. Hell ya!
I own several Ottermessers and love them, but I'll tell you one important thing: if you have one with carbon steel, be prepared to keep it clean, dry and well-oiled because it'll corrode and degrade very quickly.
They don't have pear wood Beekeeper as an option here in Germany anymore :/ But they still have the plum wood and seethorn one. People seem to shy away from the 1.4034 steel because they think it's practically unsharpenable which it isn't. Hoping to get the Seethorn one. Part of the profits from these knives go to a beekeeping school BTW
I think you should send me those knives especially the last one it's stunning!. Thanks for another great video. Best wishes for Christmas and a happy new year from England.