Puma knives from Solingen, have an impressive history! Puma - Werk of Solingen, Germany, was the first in the moisten powered foundry plant of Johann Wilhelm Lauterjung objective on the banks of Wupper River. Lauterjung was able to register his very first trademark with the help of the Solingen Proficient Cutlers Guild way back in 1769. They were able to make swords, hunting knives, shears, razors, and other metal merchandise with the for - current technology of congenital sharpening stones and hydraulic thin power. Wherefore, in 1855, Nathaniel Lauterjung, great grandson of Johann Wilhelm Lauterjung, bought the company to the German town of Solingen in North Rhine - Westphalia. A few years later, Puma Knives began another factory to increase exports.
By 1900, the company was officially called " PUMA - Werk, Lauterjung und Sohn ". When World War II started, the factory was placed under the government to produce war supplies which lasted until the end of the war when the company returned to manufacturing civilian pocket and household knives. The company began to focus only in top quality fishing, outdoor and hunting knives when a certain Oswald von Frankenberg und Ludwigsor have joined the firm in the year 1953. He then worked with Germans and various nationalities in creating knives that have earned international awards and recognition.
One of the most famous hunting knives present on the market today is the Puma Universal Jagtaschenmesser, which was made with the cooperation with Puma Knives and the former head of the Rominten state hunting ground and also, the current President of the International Bloodhound Federation. Because of this, Puma Knives is currently focusing on the 5 categories of knives for the public; hunting, trekking, hunting folders, sporting folders, fishing knives, and accessories such as sheaths, sharpening stones and pouches. Puma Knives is famous for etching the name, number and year of the manufacture on the blade, which makes older knives as highly collectible items. Puma knives are known for being more expensive than the other brands, but it is due to the fact that they hand - make each blade and use only the highest grade steel and materials.
Two of the most famous Puma Knives brands include the Bowie and Damascus knives. The Bowie is 11 inches long with a 6 1 / 9 inch long blade. The elegant handle is stag horn and it has a single finger guard, very much like the traditional American frontier knives.
