MY OPINEL likes to "swim" in water ... and opens like a flipper !!!

[Bigfattyt]

Cool Opinel. I was wondering why we don't see more synthetic handles.

The new out door version has a hideous serrated blade!

Take away the serrations, and maybe the thumb hold, and keep the blade shape.

 

[Neo]

If they put CF opies into production I'd own one in damn near every size :thumbup:

I would do the same

 

[ericnpeterson]

I use my Opinel 8 as my main kitchen knife, prep etc... I've never had a water issue. It's always just right.
When a little water gets on it, it's just a little stiff in closing/opening. I've never had an issue with it, the perfect knife.

 

[whetrock]

That's really interesting, thanks for sharing. I'd like to have a synthetic handled Opinel, in the regular blade profile, I'd compromise, and even accept stainless, like they like to do, on non-beechwood handles. Still Carbon, with a synthetic handle would be ideal, I'd buy several either way. I just don't care for serrations or whistles.

 

[mnblade]

I use my Opinel 8 as my main kitchen knife, prep etc... I've never had a water issue. It's always just right.
When a little water gets on it, it's just a little stiff in closing/opening. I've never had an issue with it, the perfect knife.

Same here. While my carbon 8 doesn't see a ton of kitchen use at home, we do a lot of little trips where we stay at "apartment hotels," the kind of place where you cook most of your own meals. In these places, the knives are inevitably butter-knife dull, so my wife's learned to count on my Opi. She treats that sucker like any other kitchen knife, cutting meat or veggies, spreading butter -- whatever. And when she's done, she'll rinse it all over, or wash it like any other knife. Unless, that is, she gets distracted, in which case she'll just toss it into the sink with all the dirty pots, pans and plates, and get to it when she gets to it. Worst-case scenario is that it's a little stiff for a day or so, that I have to use two hands to open it. But after that, it's right back to normal.

By the way, welcome to the coolest little knife (sub)forum on the Internet, ericnpeterson.

-- Mark

 

[untamed]

Since more than 50 years, i'm totin' an Opinel. No, not always the same. As a jounger man, i preferred a No. 09. When i was 40, i changed to the No. 08 and since some years now, i'm 65 and (maybe) a little "wiser", it's a No. 07, what is in one of my pockets every time and everywhere! A knife must not be BIG... but it must be SHARP!
There may be many knives, that are more "sexy", but i don't know a knife, what's a better slicer than my OPIs

The one and only problem of all the Opinel knives... they hate water Only a few drops of water on the handle... and it's sometimes nearly impossible, to close the blade. But you know that all, if you are owners of this little cheap french old-timers.

But since last year, the things have changed... for me.

My new Opinel No. 8 is a real "swimmer"! No matter, how much water, my Opinel slips open and close like a "flipper" with integrated ballbearings. Why that???
It's a special limited edition, that came out during the 100th anniversary of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris. I'm so glad, that i have ONE.
If i could get 10 more, i would take and put them in my drawer, for later times... you never know!

The handle is a pice of synthetic material, looks like carbon but is no carbon i think, but that doesn't matter... as long, as it does NOT soak one drop of water and my Opinel opens and closes like "in butter". My dream has come true and it' not a fake... it's an OPINEL

Together with two elder sisters No. 09 and No. 07

Together with an old friend in new clothes (Svörd Peasant blade with Cuscadi carbon scales)

QFT (Quoted for Truth)! Such words resonate with me as well as one "matures".

Oh and that is one very cool knife. Newer materials sure but still having the classic, timeless lines of its forebears.