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It's here at last ! Some of you may recall the tedious post I made about delivery delays, Chronopost doing a round tour of the EU: France, Austria, NL, NL, NL... Got to Finland last Thurs but that's too near the week-end for action..yesterday it arrived in my town in the early morning but then they decided to cancel delivery (too cold perhaps? :D) :mad: wait in all day Tuesday no option for sending to a locker...Uh uh! Then I find I can pick it up from their depot 4 kms away between 14-16. Long wait there until some sleepy woman who looked like she'd been driving a truck all month appeared.....

All that is OVER. As Vince VCM3 VCM3 rightly pointed out, well worth the wait, certainly so! 😍 Exceeded my expectations and far from this being a small size 4" /10cm is certainly a very decent carry. Extremely high quality finish and fit, has half stop which sort of surprised me , no play, excellent action, pins all flush, thick slabs radiused properly, fearsomely sharp, no gaps, comes in an attractive box too. Soon as you open the box you can smell the Juniper even though it was wrapped in paper ;) but the look of it!! Exceptional burl Juniper, it's fantastic. My picture is poor really as it's gloomy today with a blizzard in the making, but you'll get the idea. The seller's communication was very good, the product exceptional and so the inept delivery becomes a footnote a blur.... knife on! :cool:

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Will Power said:
It's here at last ! Some of you may recall the tedious post I made about delivery delays, Chronopost doing a round tour of the EU: France, Austria, NL, NL, NL... Got to Finland last Thurs but that's too near the week-end for action..yesterday it arrived in my town in the early morning but then they decided to cancel delivery (too cold perhaps? :D) :mad: wait in all day Tuesday no option for sending to a locker...Uh uh! Then I find I can pick it up from their depot 4 kms away between 14-16. Long wait there until some sleepy woman who looked like she'd been driving a truck all month appeared.....

All that is OVER. As Vince VCM3 VCM3 rightly pointed out, well worth the wait, certainly so! 😍 Exceeded my expectations and far from this being a small size 4" /10cm is certainly a very decent carry. Extremely high quality finish and fit, has half stop which sort of surprised me , no play, excellent action, pins all flush, thick slabs radiused properly, fearsomely sharp, no gaps, comes in an attractive box too. Soon as you open the box you can smell the Juniper even though it was wrapped in paper ;) but the look of it!! Exceptional burl Juniper, it's fantastic. My picture is poor really as it's gloomy today with a blizzard in the making, but you'll get the idea. The seller's communication was very good, the product exceptional and so the inept delivery becomes a footnote a blur.... knife on! :cool:

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Will and everyone, take a look at the middle pin
That is not a spring pin . The spring pin goes through the liners , but does not protrude through the scales. The pin that shows is actually a screw. You can see the head of it in the liner. If you look close, this design is used by a few companies from France, I have seen.
I think it is really a good build. You will never get a crack from a spring pin, and the idea that the pins that are holding the covers to the liner in the midsection is threaded to me is a very superior design.
I recently pointed this out to John Lloyd and he told me he had did it this way with certain materials like mother of pearl

PS Will that is a very beautiful example. Congratulations.
 
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Will Power Will Power Beautiful example! The smaller Liadou isn't actually all that small. I was equally impressed with mine as well. You won the lottery with that outstanding piece of juniper! I am sure you will appreciate that it is stainless also.

Glad that the shipping frustrations are over. That type of thing seems to happen far too often, but you are right, it is soon forgotten, once the prize is in hand!

VCM3 VCM3 Thanks for pointing out that small detail! Almost all of the French knives I own have the handle slabs pinned after the spring is mounted, only a few use screws, that I can tell. Certainly it is more difficult to make this way, but it is definitely a better build!

This Laguiole is one that uses screws. It's been a really long time, but I think it is carnelian stone.

 
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