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Virtuoso knives of the Manufacture S&L

Custom knives by Nikolai Lomachenkov are well known both in Russia and abroad. Nikolai's exceptional approach brought him popularity. He believes the knife mechanism is the main aesthetic feature and pays close attention to it. Although you wouldn't find much about Nickolai on the internet. For those who want to learn some biographical details of his life and the story of the Manufacture S&L we publish this article.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Lomachenkov was born in Smolensk in 1962. Nikolai's father professionally worked with metal, his uncle and grandfather were really interested in knife culture, often giving each other interesting knives. From a young age, knife aesthetics captured Nikolai’s imagination. The master still remembers that fascinating, hypnotic feeling that was filling him when he was looking at the steel of a blade, shining like a water surface. For the child a knife wasn’t a weapon, nor a tool, nor a dangerous toy. It was an artefact that had cold austere beauty and was mysteriously attracting the boy.

His first fixed blade knife Nickolai made in his father's garage by grinding it with a file out of a huge rusty caliper. What a spartan debut! Nickolai was 14 years old back then.

After serving in the army, Nickolai got a job at a factory, where he gained valuable knowledge and experience in the field of metal processing.

An important milestone in the Master’s life was moving to Minsk in 1986. That time Nickolai Lomachenkov started taking martial arts classes, which gave him the opportunity to take a fresh look at knife culture and knifemaking principles considering the practical and martial purposes of a knife. While making training knives and souvenir replicas of cold weapons, Nikolai was experimenting, discovered special techniques and developed his skills in knifemaking.

Inspired by a folder he had seen in an Italian magazine, Nickolai made his first folding knife with a linerlock in 1990.

Lomachenkov was satisfied with his work, but soon felt he didn’t want to repeat after somebody and limit himself by popular designs. Mechanics of a folding knife drew Nickolai’s attention never less than its aesthetic. Creating his own custom knives Nickolai tried to modify well-known folder designs and bring his fresh ideas to them. Master’s special tricks in lock designs, fancy ways of opening and closing a knife, quaint shapes of blades and handles became his own trademark.

In 2015, a meeting was held in St. Petersburg between Nikolai and the creators of the Maria Stalina ® project — knife enthusiasts under the supervision of a collector known by the nickname Papa, the owner of the registered trademark Maria Stalina ® . From the start of the project until the end of 2022, brand face was the beautiful Maria — the manager of the online store. These three formed the initial composition of the Collective Cognitive Creative (CCC) of the Manufactory S&L. Since then, the composition of the CCC has been changed many times. Masters and engineers, marketers and managers, photographers and copywriters, designers and programmers became part of it. Each of them has contributed to the current look of the goods from Maria Stalina ® brand, the Manufactory S&L and the online store “Maria Stalina Knives".

Today, a group of brands belonging to the Maria Stalina ® business community cooperates with famous knifemakers and manufacturing companies and regularly takes part in the landmark events of the Russian and world knife shows.

The first and main task of the Collective Cognitive Creativ of the Maria Stalina ® group was to organize the production of custom knives under its own brand. Not only the interests of the participants of the first composition of the CCC coincided, but also their special vision of the knife as an art object. This is how the creative and business union was born, which today includes the "Manufactory S&L" — custom folding knives, "Maria Stalina ® " — stylish accessories and the online store "Maria Stalina Knives" — a network trade resource offering elite custom knives, antique weapons, stylish accessories and business gifts.

Since then, the Maria Stalina ® projects have become widely known in the knife community and are rapidly reaching the international level. The folding knife of Russian production has a steady success and growing popularity abroad. S&L knives, which are exhibited at key sites of the knife industry, are no exception.

You can order folding knives of the Manufactory S&L in the corresponding section of the catalog.

In St. Petersburg and Moscow, you can inspect the goods before purchasing. To do this, you need to make a preliminary appointment using the feedback form or by phone. The relevant information can be found in the Contacts section.

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