Cultural heritage in the knife blade

Most people use a knife as a tool bantu food crop, coconut husk, cut brush, and tool bantu other household needs. After the knife was cleaned only moderate, likely stored in any place, and left blunt and rusty. 

COMMUNITY Indonesia itself is thousands of years to use sharp objects for various purposes. Knife has been a part of the culture of the nation. So that in almost every region of the country have at least two types of knife that has a unique historical value. 

Rencong and only a siwah's Aceh, Kalimantan big knife or saber, knife Bali, Makasar badik, keris from, cleaver, bedog cepot, and machete Ciomas of West Java. In everyday life all kinds of knives nusantara community is still in use until now. 

In the hands of the craftsman Q Kardin knife Indonesia, party-type knife is now part of the archipelago that become rare, appear to re-surface. Even under the direction of the master craftsman knife, Ir Kardin Teddy, an 40-crafter nusantara able to make a knife that has a high quality and high artistic value. 

Momon Ruchatman, the T Kardin knife Indonesia, on Thursday (30 / 7) afternoon explaining, in general, even a knife in the world has four main functions. Pricker knife, knife throwing, knife slices, and a knife tebas. 

According Momon, people who learn about the knife or use different types of ordinary knife surely know the knife can only see the shape. 
Day-to-day people usually use a knife and a knife slices tebas. 

While the pin and knife throwing knife, which has been modified into some jungle knife, often used among military members and lovers of nature. 

"From the functions knife that our forefathers and the knife at this time, be able to make tens and even hundreds of thousands of knives. The difference we still stand to make a knife a knife in hand-made," said Momon. 

Raw materials used for steel knives in this place, namely D2, O1, 440C and ATS-34 standard AISI (American Iron & Steel Institute). Some use the Damascus steel of high quality, strong, and able to survive long. 

Momon believe, with the inclusion of aesthetics in each product Q Kardin knife knife Indonesia, people no longer treat any knife. The owner of a knife will be happy to keep the knife as it is as art that can still work. 

"But all the knife can still function well. So customers not only the knife collector knife, but also the military, and nature lovers. They can order the form of a knife with a collection of photos and see the magazine here. Or bring your own knife design," said barbate this man with a smile. (ricky reynald yulman) 

As hope Solingen 
HOME Q Kardin production knife since Indonesia was established in 1993 by Teddy Sutadi Kardin, Momon Ruchatman, some colleagues and fellow members of the organization nature lovers Wanadri force in 1976. 

"As a member of the lovers of nature expeditions often do, we are very familiar with the map, compass, and knife. Knife even often treated as a wife. The idea was initially established knife manufacturers would simply fraudulent," said Momon while removing the laughter. 

In the early T Kardin knife employs only four Indonesian craftsman knife. While management continues to run the add knowledge and insight about the knife. People and private institutions began to recognize order and know the quality of a knife after knife here. 

Now T Kardin knife Indonesia already producing thousands of types of knives. Among survival knife, survivel Skinner, khurki, black Commando, and the special force. 
In addition to taking the form of reference books, magazines and internet, Teddy Kardin own up to now still doing the collection database knife to different corners of the archipelago in Indonesia. 

Momon hope of making the creative industries in Bandung, a knife can get the government's appreciation as the industry of making hand made knives in the city of Solingen, Germany. Where most of the people there can live with the dependent work as a knife. 

"There is a special glove to make, handle of a knife, knife blade, and the other. Product knife Solingen Germany military use and is famous throughout the world. If you really intend on any pattern can be applied as such," Momon supplement.