MERCATOR Model STAINLESS STEEL Pocket Knife Article No. 10-826RGXC
total length 20,0 cm
blade length 9,0 cm
Blade material stainless steel
Blade shape medium pointed
Blade thickness 3.0 mm
Hardness 59-60 Rockwell
Handle length 11.0 cm
Handle material satin-finish stainless steel with eyelet for securing
Locking device Backlock
Opening aid nail cut
Weight 70 gram
Manufacturer MERCATOR, Solingen, Germany
Search Words Pocket Knife Full Metal Carbon Steel, Pocket Knife, Knife Otter
Such an OTTERlife. Look how comfortably he lolls on the matted handle.
Because the company with the name of a fish marten has bought up the products of the manufacturer MERCATOR. Whose founder in the 19th century elegantly translated his surname "merchant" into Latin with the name MERCATOR.
But how does one come to call a brand OTTER? In any case, in the 19th century, also the time when this knife company was founded, those cute little animals lived by rivers and streams in the Bergisches Land. The OTTER company was a grinding shop run by water. In those days, people lay on their stomachs, bent over a huge grindstone. And because this was not only exhausting, but also very cold, since the stream flowed under the worker, as it were, they brought dogs with them as heating pads. They would then lie on their knees as a warming counterweight. If a fracture on the grindstone had been overlooked in the morning when checking it, the grinding wheel would burst with enormous force and in the worst case there would be fatalities. People and bitches were crushed by the falling rocks. The OTTER remained alive, because it was in the wild. Then it is not called "From the life of a good-for-nothing", but "From the lottery life of an otter".
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