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Hello members of the porch!
Long time reader of this forum, I'm taking advantage of the confinement measures to make this presentation post.
I live in southern France and work as a woodworker, I enjoy knives of course but also pipes and traditional archery.
These are my italian knives, the lionsteel opera was a gift from my wife and is one of my favorites, the hollow ground D2 blade gets razor sharp!
The Fox was brought back to me by my mother on a trip to Italy, in the region her father came to France from.
The huntsman lives in my archery bag.
The soldier I bought when I was in college, one night out with a good friend it fell from my pocket at some point, realizing it a while later we started retracing our steps to look for it.
I told him if he found it before me he could keep it which he did! He held on to it for a few years and gifted it back to me as a best mans gift on the day of his wedding.
The cadet was my first knife, gifted to me by my father when I was seven.
The classic stays with my car keys and is used often at work for removing splinters and general small wound care.
The buck 110 is one of my favorites, often carried in the woods and for barbecues!
The clasp knife was my father's in the navy, as a supply Sargeant he had access to some knives, he brought back a TL 29 and a pilots survival knife as well.
The Rough rider trapper and boker stockman I don't have much to say about other than they are good knives.
The Douk Douk has been my everyday work knife for 10 years, it lives in my right leg pocket and is used multiple times everyday.
The next one is a Ysingeaux pattern, I got this one from a knife maker near Thiers, the french capital of cutlery. I got to choose the pattern from many and the scale material (olive wood) as well as the old style riveting.
The Alpin I bought on a market in the alps, the juniper scales give a great smell to all the knives in the box!
The Opinel I use for gardening and breaking down boxes.
The Thiers with rosewood scales was a gift from my father, my brother got the same one in horn scales.
The laguiole was the first knife I bought, I must have been 10 or 11 and I still remember the advice of the shop keeper : "ressort silencieux, couteau deviendra vieux" which means a silent spring makes for a long lived knife, meaning don't let the knife snap shut as a lot of french knives lack a proper kick and the tip of the blade rests on the back spring when closed.
This is my carry when I'm not at work.
The case stockman I got for the birth of my first child last month, it is quickly becoming my favorite and most used knife, being used to carrying big blades, I'm surprised and enjoy how much can be done with such a compact knife!
Long time reader of this forum, I'm taking advantage of the confinement measures to make this presentation post.
I live in southern France and work as a woodworker, I enjoy knives of course but also pipes and traditional archery.
These are my italian knives, the lionsteel opera was a gift from my wife and is one of my favorites, the hollow ground D2 blade gets razor sharp!
The Fox was brought back to me by my mother on a trip to Italy, in the region her father came to France from.
The huntsman lives in my archery bag.
The soldier I bought when I was in college, one night out with a good friend it fell from my pocket at some point, realizing it a while later we started retracing our steps to look for it.
I told him if he found it before me he could keep it which he did! He held on to it for a few years and gifted it back to me as a best mans gift on the day of his wedding.
The cadet was my first knife, gifted to me by my father when I was seven.
The classic stays with my car keys and is used often at work for removing splinters and general small wound care.
The buck 110 is one of my favorites, often carried in the woods and for barbecues!
The clasp knife was my father's in the navy, as a supply Sargeant he had access to some knives, he brought back a TL 29 and a pilots survival knife as well.
The Rough rider trapper and boker stockman I don't have much to say about other than they are good knives.
The Douk Douk has been my everyday work knife for 10 years, it lives in my right leg pocket and is used multiple times everyday.
The next one is a Ysingeaux pattern, I got this one from a knife maker near Thiers, the french capital of cutlery. I got to choose the pattern from many and the scale material (olive wood) as well as the old style riveting.
The Alpin I bought on a market in the alps, the juniper scales give a great smell to all the knives in the box!
The Opinel I use for gardening and breaking down boxes.
The Thiers with rosewood scales was a gift from my father, my brother got the same one in horn scales.
The laguiole was the first knife I bought, I must have been 10 or 11 and I still remember the advice of the shop keeper : "ressort silencieux, couteau deviendra vieux" which means a silent spring makes for a long lived knife, meaning don't let the knife snap shut as a lot of french knives lack a proper kick and the tip of the blade rests on the back spring when closed.
This is my carry when I'm not at work.
The case stockman I got for the birth of my first child last month, it is quickly becoming my favorite and most used knife, being used to carrying big blades, I'm surprised and enjoy how much can be done with such a compact knife!
