Traditional French Fry day

[JackHammer]

Gary, I hope it doesn't mind being back in the Frozen North!

 

[DocJekl]

With the help of a fellow from Arizona, JackHammer , I reached out to him to see if by chance he might still have a knife and sheath I sold him years ago and was very happy that he still had it and said he just held onto it and didn't use it as it was just too pretty. Well, we worked out a deal and he shipped her home to me, checking the back of the sheath to see the date that I stamped into it, it was from back in 2013, so just about 10 years ago ! and still in mint condition. Even has the strip of rubberized cork that I laid down into the blade well so that if by accident I let the blade slip, it would hit that first and hopefully slow down the blades travel and limit any damage from striking the back spring.

So NOW, this rascal is home and as I told him, that hopefully she'll stay longer now and I believe that she will. Thanks again Jack !

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

And yes...I know that this isn't Friday but, just making up for those 10 years she's been resting in Arizona !

G2

That is beautiful.

 

[mitch13]

With the help of a fellow from Arizona, JackHammer , I reached out to him to see if by chance he might still have a knife and sheath I sold him years ago and was very happy that he still had it and said he just held onto it and didn't use it as it was just too pretty. Well, we worked out a deal and he shipped her home to me, checking the back of the sheath to see the date that I stamped into it, it was from back in 2013, so just about 10 years ago ! and still in mint condition. Even has the strip of rubberized cork that I laid down into the blade well so that if by accident I let the blade slip, it would hit that first and hopefully slow down the blades travel and limit any damage from striking the back spring.

So NOW, this rascal is home and as I told him, that hopefully she'll stay longer now and I believe that she will. Thanks again Jack !

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

And yes...I know that this isn't Friday but, just making up for those 10 years she's been resting in Arizona !

G2

Great combo!
I'm hearing you, I let my chambriard go once & traded back for it. What date stamp?
Oh yeah it is Friday 7.43am as I type this

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Nice! I knew it was Friday somewhere
And interestingly the post was 2,000th in this thread, so that is a milestone too

G2

 

[Jack Black]

Nice! I knew it was Friday somewhere

I've completely forgotten what day of the week it is!

 

[Skyline Drive]

I bought this one on eBay. Unfortunately I’m afraid that it is one made after Angel Navarro’s death, when his daughter had taken over. Scales are made of real ivory.

 

[Just Tom.]

I found this 1920’s tourist guide to Thiers:
https://archive.org/details/thiers-capitale-de-la-coutellerie/mode/1up

I only just skimmed it, and my French is a bit rusty these days, but a brief description of the factory-lined river starts on the bottom of page 21.

I also found this interesting issue of a magazine which looks to be published for school-age kids:
https://archive.org/details/bibliotheque-de-travail-la-coutellerie-de-thiers/mode/1up

I really like the intro to the article:

Rough translation (one of our francophone members may want to correct me on this):

“Your knife - you use it very often, for your work and play, for cutting cardboard (making cardboard cut-outs?) as well as for whittling a stick or fashioning a flute.

Your parents also use knives daily: robust folding knives or elegant pocket knives, big butcher knives or the thin blade of a “tranchelard”(kitchen knife?), serrated knife (pruning saw?), or a small paring (peeling) knife.

Have you ever asked yourself where all these trimming and slicing tools come from?

Have you asked yourself how they are made?

To answer these questions, come with us to Thiers, in Auvergne.”

 

[Will Power]

J Just Tom. Many thanks for showing that, what a far cry from today's angst ridden suspicious world where a pocket knife is often regarded as some manner of perversion.

Tremendous shop-front, if I could time travel I would lose myself in there. When I visited the Périgord region for the first time in 1989 there were still shops devoted to knives and cutlery, magic.

Regards, Will

 

[Just Tom.]

J Just Tom. Many thanks for showing that, what a far cry from today's angst ridden suspicious world where a pocket knife is often regarded as some manner of perversion.

Tremendous shop-front, if I could time travel I would lose myself in there. When I visited the Périgord region for the first time in 1989 there were still shops devoted to knives and cutlery, magic.

Regards, Will

The educational magazine also shows a kid cutting toward himself! The horror!

 

[Skyline Drive]

I have to watch my pooch, she seems to be developing a certain interest in traditional French knives!!!!

 

[RayseM]

Pierre Yves Joyeux L'Aurillac looking over the St. Lawrence ~

 

[waynorth]

A Christmas present from Jolipapa , thanks very much Alain - a very cool surprise!!
Made by Raymond Rosa, a Biker/Cutler, La Manette means "the Lever"
(for obvious reasons!), it is comfortable in the hand an has some useful features; one is the lanyard loop that acts as a finger-guard!!
(Interestingly, the obsidian in the first pic makes a good knife blade if chipped properly!!!)

 

[Knives-of-France]

L'Alpage by Verdier in oak

 

[joeradza]

A Christmas present from Jolipapa , thanks very much Alain - a very cool surprise!!
Made by Raymond Rosa, a Biker/Cutler, La Manette means "the Lever"
(for obvious reasons!), it is comfortable in the hand an has some useful features; one is the lanyard loop that acts as a finger-guard!!View attachment 2030705View attachment 2030706
(Interestingly, the obsidian in the first pic makes a good knife blade if chipped properly!!!)

All I see is the obsidian.

 

[Prester John]

A Christmas present from Jolipapa , thanks very much Alain - a very cool surprise!!
Made by Raymond Rosa, a Biker/Cutler, La Manette means "the Lever"
(for obvious reasons!), it is comfortable in the hand an has some useful features; one is the lanyard loop that acts as a finger-guard!!View attachment 2030705View attachment 2030706
(Interestingly, the obsidian in the first pic makes a good knife blade if chipped properly!!!)

Very cool indeed, Charlie. Bravo, Alain!

 

[Jolipapa]

I found this 1920’s tourist guide to Thiers:
https://archive.org/details/thiers-capitale-de-la-coutellerie/mode/1up

I only just skimmed it, and my French is a bit rusty these days, but a brief description of the factory-lined river starts on the bottom of page 21.

I also found this interesting issue of a magazine which looks to be published for school-age kids:
https://archive.org/details/bibliotheque-de-travail-la-coutellerie-de-thiers/mode/1up

I really like the intro to the article:

Rough translation (one of our francophone members may want to correct me on this):

“Your knife - you use it very often, for your work and play, for cutting cardboard (making cardboard cut-outs?) as well as for whittling a stick or fashioning a flute.

Your parents also use knives daily: robust folding knives or elegant pocket knives, big butcher knives or the thin blade of a “tranchelard”(kitchen knife?), serrated knife (pruning saw?), or a small paring (peeling) knife.

Have you ever asked yourself where all these trimming and slicing tools come from?

Have you asked yourself how they are made?

To answer these questions, come with us to Thiers, in Auvergne.”

Amazing booklet!

The Nontron Nut (Périgord nuts are famous) and Hazelnut production lasted til 2015 but some dealer still have some!

A tranchelard is a long (up to 30cm) slim knife to cut lard and ham.

 

[Just Tom.]

Amazing booklet!

The Nontron Nut (Périgord nuts are famous) and Hazelnut production lasted til 2015 but some dealer still have some!

A tranchelard is a long (up to 30cm) slim knife to cut lard and ham.

I was trying to visualize 25 or 100 little knives packed into a cherry pit or nut shell, but couldn’t. Now I get it!

 

[Jolipapa]

J JUST Tom : hazelnut knives are 15mm long, the shell contains 10. Nut knives ( ) are 27mm and 12 in the shell. Never seen the cherry stone.

 

[philippe]

A Christmas present from Jolipapa , thanks very much Alain - a very cool surprise!!
Made by Raymond Rosa, a Biker/Cutler, La Manette means "the Lever"
(for obvious reasons!), it is comfortable in the hand an has some useful features; one is the lanyard loop that acts as a finger-guard!!View attachment 2030705View attachment 2030706
(Interestingly, the obsidian in the first pic makes a good knife blade if chipped properly!!!)

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A Christmas present from Jolipapa , thanks very much Alain - a very cool surprise!!
Made by Raymond Rosa, a Biker/Cutler, La Manette means "the Lever"
(for obvious reasons!), it is comfortable in the hand an has some useful features; one is the lanyard loop that acts as a finger-guard!!View attachment 2030705View attachment 2030706
(Interestingly, the obsidian in the first pic makes a good knife blade if chipped properly!!!)

Hi waynorth
Like an aztec sacrificiel knife?

 

[philippe]

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Hi waynorth
Like an aztec sacrificiel knife?

Sacrificial, pufff