The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Nice to see you commissioning new life into older knives, Â!!It arrived at home with an ugly horn handle. Stephane Thomachot made me a nice chestnut one
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It looks nicely made. A&F were always careful of their subcontracts!
Charlie, I wish I had sent you this Sauveterre, but I must admit she definitively comes from someone else!I started carrying this nice gift fromJolipapa yesterday! Very nice feel in the hand! Very different feel as a talisman in the pocket, than other knives I have carried. Maybe I could learn to speak French after all!!??
Alain I have forgotten your description! Please enlighten me again!!
Away please Aloïs!
) alledgedly from the XIIIth til the XVIIth cent.
This is a Canif Mongin (still in activity), one of the last Nogent's knifemakers. Exists in 2 length, 8cm and 10cm, from a single blade up to 10 tools, with a quite rare Fisherman's .
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Charlie, you mean "droit" (straight) the name I think was used by Arto for the old fashion Laguiole they were among the first to revive. As communication then was not easy (even today, 50 miles > 1h1/2 by the road) most little towns had a local pattern, kinda like the egg and the hen, who came first? For the moment Yssingeaux leads.Hi Alain (
I found a knife called a Laguiole Dwat?? (spelling???)
It looks like Laguiole en Aubrac produces a version that they call the "Ancestral", and it is said to precede the Laguiole, as designed by Calmel in the early 1800s. Looks interesting, and slighly different than the current Yssingeaux?? But what do I know??
) "en bec de corbin", crow's beak shaped. (corbin is old French for corbeau)
Hansome one, a difference with a sauveterre (but it's a whole world for some ) is the typical "rounding" behind the pivot/mouche. Ahahha don't worry Jolipapa, my gifts are yours , and they usually arrive in the same parcel
Very good description on this Yssingeaux made with parts coming from Thiers by Stephane Tomachot .
He is very good using polished stag .
If you have seen the initial state of the parts he receives compared with what he can do with it you would say he is a wizard
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JM, that's very nice of you, (sending the knife ans sharing the gift) but let's give back to Cesar what belongs to Cesar .
AH!! My apologies J-M!Ahahha don't worry Jolipapa, my gifts are yours , and they usually arrive in the same parcel
Very good description on this Yssingeaux made with parts coming from Thiers by Stephane Tomachot .
He is very good using polished stag .
If you have seen the initial state of the parts he receives compared with what he can do with it you would say he is a wizard
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It is true, they came at the same time, and I lost all communications related to it! I love this knife! And its connection to history!! Thank you again!!“Ancestral” My favorite French Traditional.
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Thank you kindly. There’s so much for me to learn. I’m happy to have found this thread.
Charlie, I wish I had sent you this Sauveterre, but I must admit she definitively comes from someone else!
This is a Sauveterre named from the village of Sauveterre-en-Rouergue, a relative to the old "straight" Laguiole, built in the village as a "2 nails" (like an Opi, sorry, I never remember the exact name in English
It was revived in the late XXth as a slipjoint by Guy Vialis, who took the opportunity of a period TV series footage shooting in the village.
Since Guy Vialis retired and the workshop has been bought by an Espalion shop, then by Laguiole-en-Aubrac who recently re-released the 9cm and the 11cm.
ps I have an horrible doubt, your knife has no mouche... so she could very well be an Yssingeaux in fact ( was misled by the lack of bolster ). Next time I'll turn my tongue 7 time in my mouth...
This is a Canif Mongin (still in activity), one of the last Nogent's knifemakers. Exists in 2 length, 8cm and 10cm, from a single blade up to 10 tools, with a quite rare Fisherman's .
Mongin supplied many luxury brands, including Hermès and maybe Dunhill (irc). These are very well made (and sell accordingly) but "anoraks" say they're just a pale reflection of the high quality of former Nogent knives. The corkscrew might give a clue about its age.
(canif comes # 1'17" in the video)
Thank you Neal. Beautifully French cutlery like your camp knife.
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- Thank you Charlie. Your Laguiole Droit is exquisite. Love its’ elegant minimalist form.
