It is one of the tools manufactured and used in everyday life, the Cretan, for any cutting, but also as a weapon.

The Cretan knife consists of a metal blade, sharp on one or both edges, and has a handle.

Some characteristics of the identity of the original Cretan knives are:



A) The sleeves of the handle the most of times form a V, with specific proportions



B) shows specific symbols and motifs on the blade and the silver tray.



C) The shape of tsemperliki, ie the metal film covers the period between the two bones of the handle, which widens slightly, and starts from the root of the blade goes into the hole in the register the name and type of decoration on it.

D) The double rows of nails are usually three or more, depending on the size of the blade for attaching sleeves to handle.



E) The mouth of the housing that is almost always cylindrical. When the pouch is made of wood, protected by a metal ring.



F) The sheaths, which are silver, when they finish the head of the snake-dragon, and is carved with a strong and deep carving in heavy foil silver. Often, the head of the snake is attached at the end of the wooden wretches, often in older knives.



G) The shape of the blade, with the lifting of the peak-shaped shoe turns the letting out of the back of the blade, to form T and the decoration of the back with a chisel.



H) The existence of a torch of chewed, which was in an alcove at the back of the knife, between the V formed by the two sleeves. The existence of embedded chewed, which used to light brushes with the hookah, is a purely Cretan invention, not found in any other knife.



For the construction of the sleeve (handle) of the Cretan knife, using bone or horn of wild animals such as ram or goat, preferably male animals. Every bone in earning a knife.



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