Traditional French Fry day

[kamagong]

This is my first French knife with a proud pivot. I like the aesthetics of it.

 

[Jolipapa]

What was wrong with the horn one?

Quel fromage!

while I'm faithful to my valley's abondance, trad roquefort is my fave!

Great idea for a thread Be plenty to look forward to in the coming weeks, but for now I'll confine myself to the mighty Opinel. I particularly like the smaller sizes but here's a standard in Bubinga wood. Notice stamped blade too Sandvik is an excellent everyday supersteel Avance vendredi!

You mean Vivement vendredi! And il y a de quoi en faire un fromage of your troubles with horn Sabot!

Some knife content watch pocket108 Girodias Langres.

 

[waynorth]

I like the traditional use of Boxwood on French knives!! It looks light, but it's a durable hard wood!!

 

[Will Power]

What was wrong with the horn one?

Quel fromage!

Horn started peeling back in layers from the bolster in just a couple of weeks .

 

[A. Pradel]

And, speaking of such things,

Thats a beautiful Capuchin ? could you elaborate a little ? si vous plais

 

[rishma]

I gifted my opinel #8 carbon to my daughter last night. She had used it to skin an Elk and seemed to bond with it. She hasn’t had a carbon steel blade and really liked how it took a patina.

 

[A. Pradel]

I haven't been here for a while, but I've been accumulating a lot of knives. I don't know that these can be called 'Traditional', but I'm really pleased with them. From Hervé Theillol Le 20-16 in black palm and acacia burl.

Beautiful ! looks so regional too ! As for the toughness of black palm, its very sturdy, primitive people have been using it forever to make very strong archery bows

 

[A. Pradel]

The Whale Capuchin is really extraordinary !

 

[screened porch]

It is a capuchin, very generously sent me by Âchillepattada .
The etch is of a rather detailed building, and Les vielles lames/ co Montagne Thiernoise.
Who needs a backspring?

 

[Will Power]

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[Pt-Luso]

The Whale Capuchin is really extraordinary !

Thank you very much.

 

[JW225]

Poplar burl. I like the fact that the pull on this one is moderately firm -- but, the action is much firmer when closing the blade. Very solid feel.

 

[draggat]

 

[screened porch]

 

[A. Pradel]

https://imgur.com/a/uX53E42

 

[waynorth]

Display of French knives hanging in my dining room!!

 

[Will Power]

The Horn clad Sabot I had to return to France had a very satisfactory conclusion. I asked for a different pattern- Aurillac - and decided on wood scales. In this case what the French call Genêt which I think is the woody shrub, Broom in English. It's striped and I like it! The knife as with most Sabots, has a strong spring and needs a good bit of flushing and washing out before it handles well, but all is fine.

 

[draggat]

I absolutely love this one very time I see it and I admit, I am a little jealous! Beautiful! That cream colored horn is really something special!

Display of French knives hanging in my dining room!!View attachment 1751953

Outstanding collection there! How are they held in place? Is there a magnet?

The Horn clad Sabot I had to return to France had a very satisfactory conclusion. I asked for a different pattern- Aurillac - and decided on wood scales. In this case what the French call Genêt which I think is the woody shrub, Broom in English. It's striped and I like it! The knife as with most Sabots, has a strong spring and needs a good bit of flushing and washing out before it handles well, but all is fine.

Will, glad that this had a happy conclusion. That is an attractive knife. I've seen the wood listed as 'broom' and at first thought it was an old broom handle Glad to see that it is something a bit better than that!

 

[screened porch]

I absolutely love this one very time I see it and I admit, I am a little jealous! Beautiful! That cream colored horn is really something special!

Thank you. I'm a lucky knife-lover.