Otter-Messer Mercator Brass Handle Knife Put the power of furniture

Put the power of furniture fabrication into your own hands

Forged the old fashioned way over a flame and an old school anvil

zeppelin-like in appearance

Covering 250 years of design tools and technologies

and hewing

Otter-Messer Mercator Brass Handle Knife Put the power of furnitureThe "Mercator" blades were first forged in 1867 by Heinrich Kaufmann & Sohne, Indiawerk. Their reliability made them popular with Kaiser Wilhelm's Army in WWI. Eventually they garnered acclaim from civilians as well. They are virtually indestructible and have been passed down from generation to generation. Otter Messer, who has been manufacturing blades in Solingen since 1840, revived the manufacture of the Mercator pocket knife in 1995 when Heinrich