Sergio Ramondetti - “RAMON”. Francesco Pachi.
Продолжаем знакомство с Great Persons in the World of Knives.
As you know Francesco Pachi and me introduce our new project about Great Persons in the World of Knives.
The name of Francesco Pachi is well known for knife masters and not only for them.
A talented man is talented in any craft, so Francesco is known not only with his knife masterpieces highly appreciated by collectors: for a long time he was the head of, probably, one of the most famous knife Guilds in the world, the Italian Knife Guild.
Besides, he makes amazing photographs appreciated by collectors not less than his knives.
Currently he his occupied with photography only. But still the knife world, be these real knives, photographs, exhibitions, books, or anything else, here are his world and his life.
One publication by me - one photo by Francesco - one famous knife maker.
Франческо Паки и я представляем вам наш новый совместный проект.
Пожалуй, на сегодняшний день Франческо, в прошлом знаменитый найфмейкер, является самым известным фотографом, передать ножи для съёмки которому, уже большая честь.
Ни для кого не секрет, что ножи, которые появлятся в Каталогах,"приобретают дополнительную ценность".
Мы вместе с Франческо хотим рассказать вам о Людях, которые стоят за этими ножами.
Сейчас взяли подборку за прошлый и позапрошлый год и готовы пригласить вас в удивительный мир - the world of custom knives.
Today about Sergio Ramondetti - “RAMON”.
Model: Roteor
Steel: RWL-34
Handle: surface mammoth ivory
total lenght: mm 210Работа была представлена на CIC 2017.
Ножевой путь Мастера Sergio Ramondetti по-своему уникален.Он не вырос среди ножей и не увлёкся ими в детстве-юношестве. Это случилось после посещения одной из выставок и благоприятных стечений обстоятельств, когда 39-летний мужчина вместе с супругой попали в дом известного Мастера Santino Ballestra, благодаря которому Мир получил ещё одного прекрасного найфмейкера.
Член Ассоциации итальянских найфмейкеров, Sergio Ramondetti, вот уже почти два десятка лет принимает участие в Миланском ножевом шоу, хоть и хотел сбежать с самого первого.
Его работы весьма интересны и каждый раз, бывая в Милане, я в обязательном порядке подхожу к столу, за которым неотлучно находится супруга Sergio, и рассказываю всем, что же нового создал Ramon. Этот год не станет исключением.
http://www.ramon-knives.com/en/home-en/
Born in Cuneo in 1958, lives with his wife Simona in Chiusa di Pesio, a quiet village between hills and mountains near Cuneo.
I would like to tell you how I approached the knives’ world.
A springy storm signed my approach to the fantastic knives’ world. My wife and me were visiting an handicraft exhibition in the closed little city of Mondovì. The sky was dark and quickly it started to pour. In front of us there was a cabinet and we helped the owner to shelter it from the rain. Later we realized that in the cabinet there were some gorgeous knives, which pique up our curiosity: they were very particular, not similar to the ones we were used to see in sport stores. I asked to the person we helped some information about those knives: his name was Santino Ballestra. The storm ended but we were so fascinated, that we decided to pass the afternoon with the knives-maker, who was so friendly to answer to all our requests and curiosities.
While he explained me the materials using for knives’ production, I was more and more fascinated by that unknown world. So I decided to meet him in his workshop.
A morning I went there with lots of curiosity, in order to collect all possible information about the knives’ production. He was very available: he showed me his tools and the different components of a knife and finally the process to build it.
I came back home delighted and I wanted to produce my first knife, but in my workshop, even if I had lots of tools to work with wood and iron, I didn’t have a sandpaper machinery, so I decided to project one and to build it. I obtained a good result and nowadays, even if I bought a more professional sandpaper machinery, I continue to use the one, that I built by myself.
I finished my first knife at the end of 1997: the blade was extracted from an old broken knife of a butcher and the hilt was in box wood. Since I always like doing new experiences, I searched to produce new blades from cars’ crossbow and I associated them to some exotic woods and buck or buffalo horns, in order to obtain some respectable hunting knives.
In 1999 I took the admission exam at C.I.C and, with my great pleasure, I passed it.
In 2000 there was my first exhibition: the corporation’s exhibition at Marriot in Milano. On Saturday morning, when I had to enter in that big hall, crowded with lots of important knives-maker from every part of the world, I asked myself what I was going to do there and I wished to go away. Then, supporting by my wife, who has always been by my side during this adventure, I decided to take part to the exhibition: it was an unforgettable experience.
Many years have passed since that first exhibition, now I’m master of the Italian knives-makers’ corporation, but enthusiasm and emotion always remain the same.
I’m always pleased to welcome in my workshop people, who are interested in this gorgeous world, and I try to convey my knowledge and my passion with the same fondness, used by Santino Ballestra with me.
I produce my knives from the development of my ideas and one or more designs for the same project, till I obtain what I want. Often, during the knife’s realization, I already have new ideas, that can ameliorate my first project, above all for what concerns the materials used for the knife’s production. Generally I make a decision with the collaboration of my wife, who is my first reliable supporter, critics and advisor.
Francesco Pachi http://www.pachi-photo.com/index.asp
to be continued
P.S
1. Maestro Antonio Fogarizzu - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1265785.html
2. Maestro Reinhard Tschager - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1266623.html
3. Juergen Steinau - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1267169.htm
4. Rick Dunkerley - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1267227.html
5. Liukko Arto - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1267817.html
6. Emmanuel Esposito - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1268035.html
7. Pekka Tuominen - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1268324.html
8. Alain Grangette - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1268848.html
9. Pierre Reverdy - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1269264.html
10. Caroline Gubig - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1269854.html
11. Vlad Matveev - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1270614.html
12. Michael Walker - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1271011.html
13. Anssi Ruusuvuori - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1271306.html
14. Richard Tesarik - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1271625.html
15. Nylund brothers - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1272826.html
16. Fabrizio Silvestrelli - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1273467.html
17. Ken Steigerwalt - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1274834.html
18. Kay Embretsen - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1272241.html
19. Veikko Hamara - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1275195.html
20. Ron Appleton - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1275446.html
21. Matti Kunelius - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1276373.html
22. Jukka Hankala - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1276747.html
23. Salvatore Puddu - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1277295.html
24. Pasi Jaakonaho - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1277752.html
As you know Francesco Pachi and me introduce our new project about Great Persons in the World of Knives.
The name of Francesco Pachi is well known for knife masters and not only for them.
A talented man is talented in any craft, so Francesco is known not only with his knife masterpieces highly appreciated by collectors: for a long time he was the head of, probably, one of the most famous knife Guilds in the world, the Italian Knife Guild.
Besides, he makes amazing photographs appreciated by collectors not less than his knives.
Currently he his occupied with photography only. But still the knife world, be these real knives, photographs, exhibitions, books, or anything else, here are his world and his life.
One publication by me - one photo by Francesco - one famous knife maker.
Франческо Паки и я представляем вам наш новый совместный проект.
Пожалуй, на сегодняшний день Франческо, в прошлом знаменитый найфмейкер, является самым известным фотографом, передать ножи для съёмки которому, уже большая честь.
Ни для кого не секрет, что ножи, которые появлятся в Каталогах,"приобретают дополнительную ценность".
Мы вместе с Франческо хотим рассказать вам о Людях, которые стоят за этими ножами.
Сейчас взяли подборку за прошлый и позапрошлый год и готовы пригласить вас в удивительный мир - the world of custom knives.
Today about Sergio Ramondetti - “RAMON”.
Model: Roteor
Steel: RWL-34
Handle: surface mammoth ivory
total lenght: mm 210Работа была представлена на CIC 2017.
Ножевой путь Мастера Sergio Ramondetti по-своему уникален.Он не вырос среди ножей и не увлёкся ими в детстве-юношестве. Это случилось после посещения одной из выставок и благоприятных стечений обстоятельств, когда 39-летний мужчина вместе с супругой попали в дом известного Мастера Santino Ballestra, благодаря которому Мир получил ещё одного прекрасного найфмейкера.
Член Ассоциации итальянских найфмейкеров, Sergio Ramondetti, вот уже почти два десятка лет принимает участие в Миланском ножевом шоу, хоть и хотел сбежать с самого первого.
Его работы весьма интересны и каждый раз, бывая в Милане, я в обязательном порядке подхожу к столу, за которым неотлучно находится супруга Sergio, и рассказываю всем, что же нового создал Ramon. Этот год не станет исключением.
http://www.ramon-knives.com/en/home-en/
Born in Cuneo in 1958, lives with his wife Simona in Chiusa di Pesio, a quiet village between hills and mountains near Cuneo.
I would like to tell you how I approached the knives’ world.
A springy storm signed my approach to the fantastic knives’ world. My wife and me were visiting an handicraft exhibition in the closed little city of Mondovì. The sky was dark and quickly it started to pour. In front of us there was a cabinet and we helped the owner to shelter it from the rain. Later we realized that in the cabinet there were some gorgeous knives, which pique up our curiosity: they were very particular, not similar to the ones we were used to see in sport stores. I asked to the person we helped some information about those knives: his name was Santino Ballestra. The storm ended but we were so fascinated, that we decided to pass the afternoon with the knives-maker, who was so friendly to answer to all our requests and curiosities.
While he explained me the materials using for knives’ production, I was more and more fascinated by that unknown world. So I decided to meet him in his workshop.
A morning I went there with lots of curiosity, in order to collect all possible information about the knives’ production. He was very available: he showed me his tools and the different components of a knife and finally the process to build it.
I came back home delighted and I wanted to produce my first knife, but in my workshop, even if I had lots of tools to work with wood and iron, I didn’t have a sandpaper machinery, so I decided to project one and to build it. I obtained a good result and nowadays, even if I bought a more professional sandpaper machinery, I continue to use the one, that I built by myself.
I finished my first knife at the end of 1997: the blade was extracted from an old broken knife of a butcher and the hilt was in box wood. Since I always like doing new experiences, I searched to produce new blades from cars’ crossbow and I associated them to some exotic woods and buck or buffalo horns, in order to obtain some respectable hunting knives.
In 1999 I took the admission exam at C.I.C and, with my great pleasure, I passed it.
In 2000 there was my first exhibition: the corporation’s exhibition at Marriot in Milano. On Saturday morning, when I had to enter in that big hall, crowded with lots of important knives-maker from every part of the world, I asked myself what I was going to do there and I wished to go away. Then, supporting by my wife, who has always been by my side during this adventure, I decided to take part to the exhibition: it was an unforgettable experience.
Many years have passed since that first exhibition, now I’m master of the Italian knives-makers’ corporation, but enthusiasm and emotion always remain the same.
I’m always pleased to welcome in my workshop people, who are interested in this gorgeous world, and I try to convey my knowledge and my passion with the same fondness, used by Santino Ballestra with me.
I produce my knives from the development of my ideas and one or more designs for the same project, till I obtain what I want. Often, during the knife’s realization, I already have new ideas, that can ameliorate my first project, above all for what concerns the materials used for the knife’s production. Generally I make a decision with the collaboration of my wife, who is my first reliable supporter, critics and advisor.
Francesco Pachi http://www.pachi-photo.com/index.asp
to be continued
P.S
1. Maestro Antonio Fogarizzu - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1265785.html
2. Maestro Reinhard Tschager - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1266623.html
3. Juergen Steinau - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1267169.htm
4. Rick Dunkerley - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1267227.html
5. Liukko Arto - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1267817.html
6. Emmanuel Esposito - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1268035.html
7. Pekka Tuominen - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1268324.html
8. Alain Grangette - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1268848.html
9. Pierre Reverdy - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1269264.html
10. Caroline Gubig - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1269854.html
11. Vlad Matveev - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1270614.html
12. Michael Walker - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1271011.html
13. Anssi Ruusuvuori - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1271306.html
14. Richard Tesarik - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1271625.html
15. Nylund brothers - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1272826.html
16. Fabrizio Silvestrelli - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1273467.html
17. Ken Steigerwalt - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1274834.html
18. Kay Embretsen - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1272241.html
19. Veikko Hamara - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1275195.html
20. Ron Appleton - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1275446.html
21. Matti Kunelius - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1276373.html
22. Jukka Hankala - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1276747.html
23. Salvatore Puddu - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1277295.html
24. Pasi Jaakonaho - https://grebenschikova.livejournal.com/1277752.html