KNIEBES beard comb horn

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KNIEBES beard comb horn Article No. 287-00000

dimensions 9,5,0 cm x 3,7 cm
Material horn from water buffalo
Manufacturer Import via KNIEBES, Germany  
Search words pocket comb, beard comb, horn

The horn used to make these combs actually belonged to an Asian water buffalo six to seven years old. For these are characterized by sufficient size, stable structure and attractive grain. Bubalus Bubalis the zoological name of the animal.
It is a purely natural product and the production of the comb is very laborious, so the individual specimens vary in dimensions up to about 5 mm. 
In order to make the buffalo horn stretchable and malleable, as well as to be able to bend it into flat plates, it is carefully heated. The buffalo horns are then cut to shape using traditional handicraft techniques. The spaces cut out between the wide teeth of the comb do not end straight, but run diagonally into the web. This manufacturing technique is called "carving". The comb glides better through the hair and the risk of damaging hair is significantly reduced.  Finally, the combs are carefully polished with beeswax in three steps. 
The natural material requires care against drying out and brittleness just as your knife handles do. Otherwise a tooth will break, if not from the crown, then at least from the comb. Which would not amount to degradation, but would still be an optical impairment of the beautiful utensil. 
Questions?
Susann Frécôt
kontakt@scharferladen.de

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