Talk:Navaja

Photos needed

I've added material with references. Could use images of genuine antique navajas, particularly large santólios or sevillanas, as opposed to modern interpretations of traditional patterns.Dellant (talk) 15:26, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

The knife photo in the article is my own personal item, but obviously it is a modern piece. This article was an utter mess when I first found it, but I ran out of motivation to write more after a certain point (so my compliments on your thorough job adding new information). Sadly I do not own any antique navaja, but I do know a fellow that sells very old antique edged weapons, and I think I saw a navaja last time I stopped by. I will see if he will allow me to photograph it.Legitimus (talk) 16:01, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

It's a nice navaja. I note the handle is fitted with inlaid dots forming a cross much like those on shepherd laguioles of France, so that the owner when far afield could stick the knife in the ground blade-first and have a cross with which to pray.Dellant (talk) 23:28, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Interesting! I hadn't noticed.Legitimus (talk) 02:16, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Navaja and Laguiole

It's not orphaned anymore, laguiole knife points here now. Matthieu (talk) 13:06, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Not anymore, the laguiole has its own article page.Dellant (talk) 15:22, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Seriously?

"While most of Spain at that time was about as safe as Victorian London, travel alone after dark was never advisable given occasional encounters with brigands and thieves.[18] The ominous click-clack of a navaja de muelles was a sound dreaded by lone travellers attempting to negotiate lonely rural highways or the Byzantine back streets of medieval Spanish cities after dark.[18]"

I don't care if this is sourced. This is clearly a Victorian traveler's orientalist garbage and not something that should be in an encyclopedia.--Menah the Great (talk) 14:29, 31 August 2022 (UTC)