Just received my new Capachadou from Gilles @ Fontenille Pataud

Looks great. Juniper wood by any chance? I hear it's fragrant too.

Thanks, Will
 
willgoy said:
Looks great. Juniper wood by any chance? I hear it's fragrant too.

Thanks, Will
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Hi Will it is indeed Juniper and yes it is fragrant, i also have a couple of Thiers knives in juniper that combined with the leather smell from the slip sheaths they come in just about drives me crazy.LOL
 
Thanks, thought so! I've heard a lot about the Juniper fragrance, I need to get hold of a knife in it. Looks handsome too. The French do very good work on pocket slips in my experience.

Regards, Will
 
Congrats for a very beautiful knife you did choose with much taste : the buffalo bark scales plus the elaborate filework make for a "work of art" Capuchadou.
Mine looks quite plain but my first motivation was the saddlehorn affiliated handle. One of the best working knife handles, IMO.

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Nice! looks like the walnut on my F-P Laguiole.

The Saddlehorn type handle always reminds me of some old flintlock pistol, very comfortable in the hand.
 
Funny you mention that ! FP's walnut is actually advertised as "gunstock walnut" ! Dense and highly figured, it's a pure pleasure. And as comfortable as a flintlock pistol, I could swear...
I have two coming from FP because Gilles Schneider is so reactive and stand up on communication I had to fall for two patterns I have long been looking for.
It will definitely provide matter for a post !
 
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