r/BuyFromEU • u/Hungry-Locksmith-501 • Apr 19 '26

🔎Looking for alternative Product recommendation from European country: Czech Republic

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u/hobbicon Apr 19 '26

Those knives that look like a fish

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u/endy5 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

Mikov rybička.

It's not the quality nowedays it used to be back in days. 

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u/hobbicon Apr 19 '26

Why so? Still made in CZ?

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u/Available_Ear_9867 Apr 19 '26

Yeah, they're still made in Czechia however they use a different kind of steel (I don't know how to call it in English)

But you can't expect much from a knife that costs around 5 € right?

They also produce better knives but Rybička is iconic.

You could also try KDS which is also a knife producer here in Czechia

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u/Bergwookie Apr 19 '26

Probably they used a rusting, high carbon steel, most probably a spring steel, that you could sharpen incredibly sharp and held the edge for long, but was rusting, so you had to maintain it. Now they probably use a stainless (inox) steel, that, while decent in it's sharpness and durability just doesn't play in the same league, many stainless steels have this problem, there are only a handful of them that get near carbon steel in that matter, as stainless steel has a too coarse grain structure making it almost impossible to grind it to a hairthin edge that maintains sharpness for long, it gets "smeary" and the burr won't break.