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Translated with help of Google translate:
Jrgen Schanz 42, received an e-mail from King of Bahrain,
initially he thought it is a joke .
" Mr. Schanz, King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa has interest in your products , please come to England , the ticket is reserved for you ," please collect from Airport. Schanz could not believe his eyes. But the e-mail was genuine.
A few days later, the knife maker from Stutensee near Karlsruhe sat in London in front of a sheikh , who introduced himself as the right hand of the king. " Do you dare to be to supply the royal family ? " Schanz said yes - and the conversation was over. Four months later , he was invited to Bahrain. Here Schanz met king personally . In the end, he ran with a large order to home. More than 20 orders he received- from king . They were intended as gifts of state .
Schanz learned in Germany, how to make a professional knife or sword, how to sharpen scissors. He often stayed after work in the workshop, in order to implement his own ideas in steel. For his final examination he forged a so-called flame dagger, for his master's certificate , a Japanese sword. Since he was 24 years old.
"After the training, I have noticed that there is a market for such things ," says Schanz . " For handcrafted quality knives that people pay you more . " His term clients are hunter-gatherers .
Up to 2000 Euros (2 Lakh 80 Thousand RS.) they pay for a hunting knife
12,000 euros for a sword
The record is held a saber with a lot of silver and pearls :
50,000 euros ( 7 Million RS) was the sale price.
The saber liked Schanz so well that he forged himself a second , with sapphires instead of beads. The is now in the safe.
About 200 knives and three swords creates Schanz year. He could set a trainee , there would be enough jobs . But Schanz is like to be alone with himself and his knives .
His workshop is located next to a nondescript building materials market and a supplier of bathroom products. It is a typical Metal Workshop with massive , dominating the room work bench in wood and several grinding machines in typical staid Matt Green . Three dozen blades and handles lying on the workbench , the work of three months. Schanz is proud to do everything by hand - down to grinding. "But times comes a machine for use , I run the workpiece still by hand ," he says. It sounds a little apologetic. In Japan, some knife makers made their swords still like 500 years ago, he says: " Since then sits and grinds of a blade for four weeks with a whetstone . "
http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/beru...bel-fuer-den-koenig-von-bahrain-a-926757.html
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