Share your French traditional/regional pocket knives

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Is anybody else watching Les Petits Muerdres d'Agatha Christie? I think that was a Pradel that Blandine Bellavoir's character used last night to cut her ropes and slice her way out of the painter's tarp she was about to be buried in.

 

[Jolipapa]

Jeremy do you mean one like this? I like to watch this program. I think there is now the season 4 or 5 on friday evenings. I wish I had a Facellia as well...

 

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I think that's it, though her bolsters may have been rounder. The proportions and tapers look right. We got a brief look at the open knife, so it definitely wasn't a queue and I don't think it was a violon.
This was our fourth Laurence and Avril, after a few of Larrosierre and Lampion. ((Murder at the Kemersse(?): An obnoxious pupil was drowned while bobbing for apples.))

I think they're great fun and very well done.

 

[adriancook53]

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[herder]

Dating of the end of XIXth century, an Aurillac (

) made by the genuine cutler, Vigier. The cutlery still exists under the Destannes name since the beginning of the XXth cent.
Half stop, three bolsters, beveled blade, certainly no cheap at the time.

the shape since has evolved in a more rounded pattern

From Burgundy further North, the Charlois (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charolais,_France)

Two beautiful old French knives, thanks for the pictures!!!

 

[Jolipapa]

You're welcome Another old pattern, now made in Thiers and no more in the town that gave it's name : small Langres.

 

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That is a handsome pattern.

 

[Jolipapa]

That is a handsome pattern.

A boy's knife, given sometimes for an opportunity like the first communion instead of a watch. A razor.

 

[matt009au]

9cm Vialis Sauveterre in Juniper. One of my favourites.

I was wondering if anyone is familiar with a book/resource which details the history of some of the French regional knives?

 

[Llasi]

 

[Jolipapa]

9cm Vialis Sauveterre in Juniper. One of my favourites.

I was wondering if anyone is familiar with a book/resource which details the history of some of the French regional knives?

Read your PM.

 

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I seem not to have posted any pictures here, despite my recent spate of French knife buying.
The Roquefort is best of the bunch for bludgeoning eels. The Aurillac and queues de poisson are my favorites for the maximum blade in the minimum handle. The Pradel is like a slightly beefier queue.

The Massoptier queue came from Jolipapa. The rest are Sabots I ordered on-line. Sabot F&F wouldn't please a GEC chorister, but they're robust and reasonably priced knives.

 

[Pàdruig]

I seem not to have posted any pictures here, despite my recent spate of French knife buying.
The Roquefort is best of the bunch for bludgeoning eels. The Aurillac and queues de poisson are my favorites for the maximum blade in the minimum handle. The Pradel is like a slightly beefier queue.

The Massoptier queue came from Jolipapa. The rest are Sabots I ordered on-line. Sabot F&F wouldn't please a GEC chorister, but they're robust and reasonably priced knives.

I need to give this thread a more studious read but I do like your collection thus far. I am particularly partial to the looks of the Pradel at the bottom, that is a handsome looking knife.

 

[Jolipapa]

I seem not to have posted any pictures here, despite my recent spate of French knife buying.
The Roquefort is best of the bunch for bludgeoning eels. The Aurillac and queues de poisson are my favorites for the maximum blade in the minimum handle. The Pradel is like a slightly beefier queue.

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Nice collection of sturdy clogs! From what I heard on the grapevine it seems that the Parapluie line of knives is on the bad way and will be hard to get in the future.

 

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I need to give this thread a more studious read but I do like your collection thus far. I am particularly partial to the looks of the Pradel at the bottom, that is a handsome looking knife.

Thanks. Someday I'll get around to making my own out of a TL-29. JP will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the tradition is not very ancient on those. Somebody named Pradel designed a nice basic edc in the late 19th century. I wonder if the Pradel is a reason the queue is almost extinct, the queue being stigmatized by rugged manly types as a little girlie kitchen garden knife.

Nice collection of sturdy clogs! From what I heard on the grapevine it seems that the Parapluie line of knives is on the bad way and will be hard to get in the future.

Thanks. Too bad about Parapluie. You'll remember that was what I was going for when I got the extra Sabot by mistake. But having the extra allowed me to grind one back to 3".

 

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I think I will have to get a Langres, but not right away. I just bought a couple of pretty expensive books (Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England and Sheathes and Scabbards in England AD 400-1100).

 

[Jolipapa]

I wonder if the Pradel is a reason the queue is almost extinct, the queue being stigmatized by rugged manly types as a little girlie kitchen garden knife.

I never thought it that way, but it may be partly true, they are small by French standards.
The "pradel" is a very simple pattern, easy to reproduce and the name (the original has an anchor on the blade) is synonym of quality and has been copied a lot (probably more fake French Pradels than Pakistani Lags!), the same occured to Sabatier for the kitchen knives.

 

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Still I stand by the little girlie kitchen garden knife!
Though I might see about a veritable Pradel when I get a Langres.

 

[hughd]

scrteened porch and Jolipapa, I really like the look of that Pradel. Any advise as far as recommended maker/availability?