My wife is a German gal, and in her hometown of Wiesbaden, there is a small specialty knife store. I love shopping at the store and on our trip there a couple of months ago, we were shopping for a hunting knife for my son. When the sales clerk asked what brands I was interested in, I told her Puma, Boker, and any knives of comparable quality she could recommend.
Most of the Puma knives were the SGB types, and the fit and finish were kind of rough. She stated that the SGB knives were hard to sell in her store. I was looking at one knife and noticed it had "Argentina" stamped on the blade. I was thinking - wow, now Puma is making their knives in Argentina...how is that saving them money? I think the clerk could read my mind as she explained that "Argentina" was the name of the knife I was looking at, not the country where the knife was made. That particular knife was Puma's version of the gaucho knife.
When the clerk asked about blade length, I told her 3.5-4 inches would be fine. She kept showing me knives with blades about 6 inches long, and I kept pointing at the knives with the shorter blade lengths. I finally told her that where I came from, there was an old saying: "the bigger the knife, the smaller the boy" - she really liked that one after my wife translated it for her.
The real Pumas were very expensive, and we ended up buying our son a nice Boker fixed blade knife.
Regards,
Dave
on the brass near the lock lever. I still have the box laying around somewhere in one of my box of boxes.
