Joe Loewenstein wrote:

I'm willing to spend whatever it takes to get a good bread knife, long enough
and robust enough to handle a decent-sized, heavy-crusted cottage loaf.

We have Forschner, and Henckels 4-star, and Wusthof Classic bread
knives -- all put away in my box of extra knives. All because of a
seemingly very unusual bread knife that I bought on eBay at the
beginning of this year. It's a Sabatier Stainless (logo says "Inox",
with the four star and elephant images), 12 inch long, 2-3/8 inch wide
serrated blade, full tang, wooden handle (not the greatest wood finish
in the world), and it is absolutely terrific.

A picture is at http://www.xhost.org/images/breadknifesm.jpg.

(A very large -- 0.5 MB --picture is at
http://www.xhost.org/images/breadknife.jpg. )

This monster is the best thing we have ever come across for slicing
large bread machine loaves, bagels, etc. The razor-sharp wide blade
keeps the cuts straight, and the weight of the blade makes cuts
through dense breads trivial.

The seller billed it as a "17-inch bread knife"; he also had a smaller
one for sale. I Haven't seen his ads lately, but I'd love to buy a
couple more of these things as gifts. I believe the price was $47.
I've never seen them anywhere else.

Does anyone know anything more about these bread knives? Anyone have a
source for them?

-- Larry