FOX Knives VULPIS - smooth sandblasted titanium handle, M390 stainless steel blade
Award: European Product Design Award™ 2024-Blade steel: M390
-Hardness: HRC 59-61
-Blade surface treatment: Polished
-Handle: Sandblasted titanium
-Screws: Polished stainless steel
-Blade length: 55 mm - 2.17"
-Overall length: 135 mm - 5.31"
-Blade thickness: 2.0 mm - 0.08"
-Weight: 35 gr - 1.23 oz
Made in: Italy
The VULPIS series is a line of items divided into two sizes: the smaller one with a total length of 11 cm - 4.33" and the larger one with 13.5 cm - 5.31".
The small one features a single blade model, while the larger one starts from a blade and goes up to five uses: saw, bottle opener, can opener, flathead screwdriver, and scissors.
For over four decades, Fox Knives has engaged with a dynamic and competitive market and has chosen to pursue research and development with a bold and distinctive approach: an evolving design.
The roots of the territory remain the "artisanal instinct" with which the company operates, studying the history of Maniago knife-making to update industrial production processes.
The VULPIS series was born from the need to create a compact, versatile multi-tool with a modern style that perfectly combines with historical products. The inspiration for the creation of this line comes from the DUCA, the name of the multi-tool for Maniago residents, a knife created in the second half of the 19th century in Maniago when hunting penknives with blades of different sizes, ivory toothpicks, and tweezers for removing splinters were produced. These knives were presented at the National Exhibition in Turin in 1888 by the Bet Giovanni company, which won the gold medal for the quality of its products, and it was then that, most likely, Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Abruzzi, wanted to visit one of the company's two shops in Turin where he saw and ordered the four-bladed multi-tool that he chose as an integral part of the equipment for the expedition to the North Pole that he captained in 1899.
To learn more about the history of Maniago's knife-making tradition, visit the Museum of Ironworking and Cutlery Art
www.museocoltelleriemaniago.it
