Bixia, L’épicé, Spicy, Picante… creation all rights reserved

Four names to emphasize the strong and colorful character of our creation that celebrates our worldwide famous pepper from Espelette…

Its warm and generous curves are adorned with particles of beech and birch compressed and then colored in the mass … Its satin blade forged in the best Swedish steel Sandvik adds a contemporary and elegance touch to its slender profile…

With its soft and harmonious touch, Spicy will naturally find its place in your pocket and will brighten up your tables with its originality !

                                                                             Made in France by Les Couteliers Basques

• Spicy, the pepper knife 60.00 € per unit
• by 3 : 170.00 €
• by 4 : 220.00 €
• by 6 : 320.00 €
  by 8 : 400.00 €
  by 10 : 500.00 €
  by 12 : 600.00 €

For the sake of sustainable development, its very design packaging is 100% recyclable and sold separately (for those who wish to offer Spicy or create an original table) at a price of 4 €. It includes a transparent plexi-shaped foot of pepper with a small chili pepper flower and translucent box with the description in 4 languages.

Between June 16th and June 27th, I will be travelling throughout California to show our « Basque Country » knife along with our other MIZPIRA creations.
I will each day relate my trip through California : Los Angeles, Chino, Ontario, Bakersfield, San Francisco, Carmel, See you later .. )
Watch this space !

Rachel and Pascal EXPOSITO – Louis PLAA, grand kids from St Jean Pied de port « Garazi »
LES COUTELIERS BASQUES – Route de l’Hydro – 64200 Arcangues – France
Cell : +33 (0) 608 638 631
info@ lescouteliersbasques.fr

Mizpira is made of scarified medlar, wood used to make the famous Makila. This wood requires many years of work, engraved by the hand of man from April to May, it is cut and picked up in November. Long years of drying will give it the hardness necessary to be a defence stick when it becomes a Makila, authentic and traditional travel companion in the Basque culture. Its beautiful warm shade comes from barking, straightening and steaming in ovens

Mizpira was born from this wood of a rare beauty. Mizpira in Basque means: medlar fruit

While its spring is done smooth and is avoided with a beautiful cross forged manually, symbol of the Basque identity, its sober line mixes elegance with stainless glossed with the warm shade of the rare medlar tree

Mizpira, exceptional range of gifts…

Mizpira exceptional range of gifts
Think Mizpira for special events:
- weddings- birthdays- retirements- congratulations

« … each wood is unique, full of its own history, and if for an instant, you are the lovers of nature and of the nourishing earth, then, you slip your fingers on its veins, cherish each of its slightest details, touch lightly each one of its curves and thus be in touch with the soul of this noble wood, that is medlar…»

The Basque cross is sculpted by hand on the spring forged in one piece.The steel blade is 12c27, Swedish Sandvik stainless steel richer in carbon than the 440 surgical steel, giving it a better quality of cut. Thickness : 3 mm, hardness : 54 Hrc

To see in live its production, click here to watch the video

Each piece is unique, full of its own history …

A scabbard made in Buffalo leather accompanies each of our basque knife Mizpira. We specially design it to make the basque cross appear. We also create a scabbard for belt.

Our partner for scabbard is Remy Carriat Tannery from Espelette

Each basque knife Mizpira is supplied with a parchment which it’s numbered for Mizpira Damascus blade…

The parchment confirms the authenticity of your Mizpira and tells you about the soul and the story of Mizpira …

« … come closer, cherish its invaluable flesh so that it lives under your fingers, its prints speak to you about a history, this story of love between the medlar, time and the man: in May, these lovers meet, the man engraves the tree with the greatest care and lets it continue its slow growth until November, best time for the cut and the collecting of the scarified feet of medlar. Long years of drying will give it the hardness necessary to be a defence stick when it becomes a Makila, authentic and traditional travel companion in the Basque culture.

Its beautiful warm shade comes from barking, straightening and steaming in ovens

That’s for sure, Mizpira is ready to seduce you and be cherished for life, probably because of all the things he has to say, your love story just begins « 

Creations customized on request engraving in relief on the spring

*- In order to respect and leave apparent scarifications of each wood, the technique requires assembling, specific knowledge, patience and meticulousness.

*- Each side of the medlar is cut gradually from the inside to come between the bolsters and the liners.

*- The Basque cross is sculpted by hand on the spring forged in one piece.

*- The steel blade is 12c27, Swedish Sandvik stainless steel richer in carbon than the 440 surgical steel, giving it a better quality of cut.

Thickness : 3 mm, hardness : 54 Hrc

*- The Basque cross, the spring, the blade, the bolsters and the liners are in dull stainless steel, to combine contemporary with the nobility and the authenticity of the medlar.

The production of Damascus blade requires exceptional knowledge and it will require full pages to explain its technique of production precisely.

In a word, a Damascus blade is forged from a piece of steel that as been folded, hammered, shaped hundreds of times to get the desired number of layers. The pattern is revealed by soaking in acid baths, which oxidize carbon by a chemical reaction.

Each of our carbon Damascus blade has more than 280 superimposed layers of steel. Thickness : 3 mm, hardness : 54 Hrc

Our Swedish stainless steel Damascus blade has more than 120 superimposed layers.

Thickness : 3mm, hardness : 54 Hrc

The Mizpira Damascus blades are numbered.

Knife 34cm long
Fork 28cm long

Logo of a french company engraved and carved by hand

Engraved in relief with the company name

Ebony handler assembly with rivets on duffels.

Customized on request

Airplane engraved and carved by hand

Name engraved on relief on the stringe

Handler in genevrier, an exceptional pepper smell wood