It started with an 1,5 hour journey to the town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, in the Savoie region of France.
It was a very rainy day, so I didn't have a hard time convincing my wife to drive 1,5 hours to go to a pocket knife museum
.
But here we are:
The museum is divided in two seperate parts. One is to show you the manufacturing through the years and the other is an art exibition.
To our suprise, the entry was free of charge!
Let's start with the manufacturing. This is the entrance:
The tour starts off with an example of one of the first (or maybe THE first) Opinel ever made.
Mister Joseph Opinel himself.
Then you get to see some of the old techniques to forge the blades and make the handles.
Wood lathe
Different types of packaging trough the years sorted geographically.
Some examples of Opinel cutlery.
The museumpart ended with a movie showing todays production proces.
If you are interested, this is the one:
So the exibition part of the museum had art pieces which incorporated the Opinel No13.
Here are a few examples.
The museum also has store where you can buy every Opinel they make, including kitchen cutlery. (this is only one cabinet with special handles)
They also have an engraving service, so me and my son bought a keepsake. I bought a No8 Slim line whith my name on the blade. My son, who turned 12 on the 12th of august, got a No6 with his name and and date of his birthday. (He also bought a green key chain No3 and I bought a Carbone No6 for my dad, but I don't have pictures of them.)
Although the museum was not very big, for me the trip was worth the effort. Specially as a knife nut, I can definitely recommend going to the Opinel Museum.
Thanks for reading!
It was a very rainy day, so I didn't have a hard time convincing my wife to drive 1,5 hours to go to a pocket knife museum
.But here we are:
The museum is divided in two seperate parts. One is to show you the manufacturing through the years and the other is an art exibition.
To our suprise, the entry was free of charge!
Let's start with the manufacturing. This is the entrance:
The tour starts off with an example of one of the first (or maybe THE first) Opinel ever made.
Mister Joseph Opinel himself.
Then you get to see some of the old techniques to forge the blades and make the handles.
Wood lathe
Different types of packaging trough the years sorted geographically.
Some examples of Opinel cutlery.
The museumpart ended with a movie showing todays production proces.
If you are interested, this is the one:
So the exibition part of the museum had art pieces which incorporated the Opinel No13.
Here are a few examples.
The museum also has store where you can buy every Opinel they make, including kitchen cutlery. (this is only one cabinet with special handles)
They also have an engraving service, so me and my son bought a keepsake. I bought a No8 Slim line whith my name on the blade. My son, who turned 12 on the 12th of august, got a No6 with his name and and date of his birthday. (He also bought a green key chain No3 and I bought a Carbone No6 for my dad, but I don't have pictures of them.)
Although the museum was not very big, for me the trip was worth the effort. Specially as a knife nut, I can definitely recommend going to the Opinel Museum.
Thanks for reading!
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