Traditional French Fry day

[waynorth]

Here is that Dining room display!! Door open for the picture; Recognize any, Jolipapa ??

 

[waynorth]

Charlie, you're welcome back whenever you want!
For the first time since more than a year and half last wendesday I ate in that same bistro with a friend after shopping at the market. Believe it or not, I had calf's liver

Long ago I spent holidays in Foix and surround, a lovely country! It was in the nearby Spanish enclave of Livia that my parents gifted me my very first knife!

Fond memories for both of us, Alain!! And thank you!!

Here is an Opinel with an Oak handle. Gives a little heft and class to a very utilitarian design!! In My pocket today!! I will cut my apple, and think of Paris!!

 

[draggat]

Nice version, Steve!!
Google won't translate "Le Grat" for me?? Is there an English translation, do you know??

It is a surname of one of the current owners ancestors. From what I read, the family started making Capuchin's in 1754 and the master cutler's name was François Roques. Grat is the surname of a later master cutler in the family, along with Savignac and the current owner is Olivier Montariol. The name changes are due to marriages. It's pretty neat to see that the business has been in their family for around 267 years!

 

[draggat]

Charlie, this is a family name. The knives are named after the cutlers who successively owned the shop in that lovely town of Foix. (pronounce Gratt', rolling the "r")

• ROQUES XVIIIth
• GRAT XIXth
• SAVIGNAC XXth
• MONTARIOL XXIth

Aha, you beat me to it!

 

[draggat]

Here is that Dining room display!! Door open for the picture; Recognize any, JP??View attachment 1593379

That is quite an impressive display there! I spy a very fine Perceval in it. Too bad that most of them don't quite fit into the traditional rules here.

 

[draggat]

It's the return of the Cognet small Capuchin for me today. I consider this the most elegantly designed Capuchin that I own.





Although not French, this knife is from a cutlery located just on the other side of the Pyrenees from France and has some striking similarities.

 

[Just Tom.]

Long ago I spent holidays in Foix and surround, a lovely country!

That name sounded familiar so I looked it up. While I don’t think I was ever in Foix proper, I have most definitely been within 10 miles of it on a couple of occasions (also long ago), and did some hiking in the area. Lovely countryside indeed.

 

[cbach8tw]

I have enjoyed seeing the knives in this thread.

 

[SteveD12]

I have enjoyed seeing the knives in this thread.

Me too! I own the standard opinel 8 with lanyard but I’ve been eyeing up a Laguiole by Honoré Durand recently. Something about the snakewood and brass hooked me

 

[Jolipapa]

It's the return of the Cognet small Capuchin for me today. I consider this the most elegantly designed Capuchin that I own.





Although not French, this knife is from a cutlery located just on the other side of the Pyrenees from France and has some striking similarities.

"Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées!" as the Spanish ambassador said to Louis the XIVth when his grandson was given the Spanish throne as Philippe V, the first of the Spanish Bourbon branch, still reigning today.

For centuries Spain was a very important market for Thiers, both ways. They sold upmarket knives and had some lower end made under contract and sold under theThiers cutlers's name.

 

[cbach8tw]

I have liked some of the Thiers models or the spear pointed ones.

 

[Just Tom.]

Although not French, this knife is from a cutlery located just on the other side of the Pyrenees from France and has some striking similarities.

Pallares markets that as a Gabacha knife. I was informed by a Spanish BF member that “Gabacho” is derogatory slang for French, so basically, “French knife”. I think it would be sort of like a Mexican company making an American style knife and calling it the “Gringo knife”.

 

[draggat]

Pallares markets that as a Gabacha knife. I was informed by a Spanish BF member that “Gabacho” is derogatory slang for French, so basically, “French knife”. I think it would be sort of like a Mexican company making an American style knife and calling it the “Gringo knife”.

Interesting, i had not paid too much attention to the name of that particular knife. I'm in California and here gabacho is a lesser known (to non Spanish speaking people) derogatory term similar to gringo.

I have to laugh, I have an olivewood version of the knife that is one of my most well used knives.

 

[Just Tom.]

Interesting, i had not paid too much attention to the name of that particular knife. I'm in California and here gabacho is a lesser known (to non Spanish speaking people) derogatory term similar to gringo.

I have to laugh, I have an olivewood version of the knife that is one of my most well used knives.

Minor correction. They call the plastic handled one like I have the Gabacha, they call yours Pastor:
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[Jacques Mi]

 

[waynorth]

"Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées!

Leveled the mountains with a phrase!!! Ha Ha!!

 

[BDubbs]

It's the return of the Cognet small Capuchin for me today. I consider this the most elegantly designed Capuchin that I own.





Although not French, this knife is from a cutlery located just on the other side of the Pyrenees from France and has some striking similarities.

Elegant certainly describes it, the lines and flow of the design are beautiful.

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[screened porch]

I think I've used this picture before, but I want one you can read the name off of so I don't have to spell it.

Unused pic I think:

Thanks again, @ Achillepattada!

 

[draggat]

Today a Nontron boule in ebony, aluminum and olive. The pieces were joined with wooden biscuits before it was turned on a lathe and the notch cut for the blade. Pretty interesting build and a very well finished knife.