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Photos needed[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

Navaja and Laguiole[edit]

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

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

Seriously?[edit]

"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)[reply]