Choosing a knife for your home
How to choose a knife Is it normal to use saw blades to cut food other than bread, focaccia andproducts out of the oven? Is it really parsimonious to spend less for a knife...
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Cornotech knives handles
“Cornotech” is the brand name chosen by Coltellerie Berti for a special kind of orthophthalic polyester resin, used since January 2013 to make a new line of knives. This resin, poured into aluminium cylinders,...
Plexiglass knives handles
“Under conditions of heat, cast Polymethyl Metacrylate (PMMA) has an isotropic behaviour, with a maximum contraction of 2% in every direction; whereas extruded, its contraction varies depending on thickness and direction of extrusion”. This...
Ebony knives handles
Ebony is a hard and compact kind of wood which comes from over 250 different species of trees belonging to the Diospyros genus of the family of the Ebenaceae. Diospyros are also much in...
Boxwood knives handles
Always used to make the simplest country knives, although one sometimes finds ones with carved or sculpted handles. Today, it is used in sophisticated production for people looking for a knife of their own...
Horn knives handles
Throughout the 1940s, horn from the Maremma district of Tuscany was used, and the poor economy of those days made it necessary to use every part of the horn, valuable or not. After WWII,...
De Rerum Natura
Libro V – Versetti 1240-1295 ……. Now for the rest: copper and gold and ironDiscovered were, and with them silver’s weightAnd power of lead, when with prodigious heatThe conflagrations burned the forest treesAmong the...