The workshop of the cutler Oderico Lucantoni

Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century various masonry buildings were built in Via Icona-Riparossa (today Via Guglielmo Marconi) and in Via Stradale della Madonna delle Grazie, directions towards which the town was gradually expanding in those years. On the ground floor of one of these buildings, dating back to the Belle Époque, was the historic workshop of Oderico Lucantoni, who inherited the trade from his father Pasquale, blacksmith and cutler of the town.

With the death of Oderico, over ninety years old, which took place on May 13, 2004, a traditional activity of the town ceased. In fact, the historic cutler, in recent decades, had concentrated solely on the production of knives, known far beyond the borders of Controguerra. The typical "hunchback" knife created by Oderico was appreciated not only by peasants, but also by sailors, so much so that the model is known by the name of Anconetano. Today the counter-guerrillas jealously preserve the handcrafted products of Oderico, better known among the fellow villagers as Rico də Pəchiorrə.

In recent years, on the occasion of the 2016 Food and Wine Festival, his shop was cleaned up and opened to the public, showing the many patrons who visited it, a world that has disappeared but is still able to arouse fascination and wonder.

The shop is a room of modest dimensions, with some walls darkened by the soot deposited over a century of activity. Some typical tools of the trade are preserved here, such as the heavy anvil, the forge and the tools for re-edging the blades, as well as some started and never finished knives, which reveal the long process that began with the choice of cow horns, to the handle, and steel, for the blade. In the environment there is also a cave, i.e. a neviera, which was used for the conservation of food and, if necessary, also as a warehouse.