Texas Toothpick - Laguoile?

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I was on some websites, and saw the pic's of the Case and Queen Texas Toothpick design. I couldn't help but think that they look just like the classic French Laguoile, even more so than some "updated" Laguoile's.
Other than the cross and bee/fly, does this design qualify as a Laguoile? If not, what does it lack?
Where and when did this design come to America? Is it just a case of parallel evolution?
 
Hmm good thread, never really thought about it before but there is a similarity. Like you say could be a parallel evolution, form following function or an 'import' from French settlers.
 
For one thing, they lack the annoying
defect that I have seen in many Laguoile
knives and that is that the blade does
not grind into the back of the spring
and dull the edge. Why can't those
French, grind the tang of a folder to
avoid this indignity? I heard that one
manufacturer suggested slipping a piece
of plastic tubbing into the handle to
provide a bumper for the blade!

Have you seen one from the top? Most of
them are much wider across, than any of
the patterns we are familiar with.

Oh well, glad I got that out of
my system!...

-Rebus
 
Rebus777, are you saying that true laguiles are wide across the top? Interesting information for me. That helps explain why Pat Crawford's French Folder is merely inspired by the laguoile. To me, other than the lack of the cross and bee/fly, the only real difference between the FF and laguoile is the frame lock of the FF. The thinner top would be yet another difference.
 
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