Laguiole knife from Lee Valley

If good ol' LV sold these in carbon steel (if they're even made with it!) I'd be all over one.

By the way, is it pronounced "Lah-wee-oh"? My french is tres rusty.
 
Very nice! Do you notice if the blade bottoms out when it's closed? I ask because I've noticed this type of knife doesn't have a kick. If the blade doesn't get dulled by contact when it's closed I'd be very interested in getting one.
Bob
 
rdg said:
Very nice! Do you notice if the blade bottoms out when it's closed? I ask because I've noticed this type of knife doesn't have a kick. If the blade doesn't get dulled by contact when it's closed I'd be very interested in getting one.
Bob
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Funny you should ask that because it's one of the few things I checked when
going over the knife before I bought it. It does not hit the bottom and you
can see a space where the edge of the knife sits and it's not resting on the
bottom on this one.
 
Thanks for the tip, I have a few of these (including the limited edition one in my avatar) and never pronounced it right...maybe never will. :)
CWL said:
It's pronounced "La-you-ol"
"ol" like in "Grand ol Opry"
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C.S. Graves said:
By the way, is it pronounced "Lah-wee-oh"? My french is tres rusty.
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CWL said:
It's pronounced "La-you-ol"
"ol" like in "Grand ol Opry"
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I used to live in France, I speak the language fluently, and can assure you that both of you would be laughed at if you pronounced it either of those ways when speaking to a French person.;) "La-gi-ull" would be as close as I can come to explaining the proper way to pronounce it. The la should be self explanitory. The gi is pronounced like you would a Karate gi. The ull should be pronounced as you would the end of the word dull.
 
I used to live in France, I speak the language fluently, and can assure you that both of you would be laughed at if you pronounced it either of those ways when speaking to a French person. "La-gi-ull" would be as close as I can come to explaining the proper way to pronounce it. The la should be self explanitory. The gi is pronounced like you would a Karate gi. The ull should be pronounced as you would the end of the word dull.
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Funny, when I lived in France, that's how we pronounced it.
 
As I understood it, the locals pronounce it with a silent 'G', whereas the rest of the French-speaking world pronounces the 'G'. Could be wrong, but in any case, I use the latter.
 
3Guardsmen said:
Found some interesting info that seems to indicate that even the French have a hard time deciding how to pronounce it , so I apologize for jumping the gun by claiming to have a definitive answer.:o
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Geez, I guess we'll have to accept that a variety of pronunciations are used. With French, sometimes letters used in a word in writing are barely pronounced, if at all.

The folks at Fontenille Pataud seem to use the "la-gee-oh" vocalization:

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The Wikipedia entry lists both "la-gee-ol" and "la-ee-ol" (laɡjɔl and lajɔl in IPA, respectively). I think the latter was how Don Rearic might have described it on his site.
 
I don't know how it's prononced in the original region of France where they come from, sometimes it can vary from one region to the other. I've heard both here in Québec. The correct french prononciation would be with a hard G, like the karate gi mentioned earlier. But maybe tradition differ.
 
wild - I had heard it was pronounced "La-wee-ulll"
nice looking blades, though.
 
When i was in high school, i had a geography teacher who came from where these knives are made, and we had a conversation about the pronounciation. He said that the proper way to say it is lah-ee-ol, and not la-gi-ol, and that pretty much everybody said it wrong.
So there you have it.
 
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