Traditional French Fry day

Skyline Drive said:
An old and beaten up warhorse! A 12 cm, "deux pièces", a two pieces, made by "Laguiole Besset"

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I'd venture to say, I've never seen a Laguiole with that much wear here in Canada, nor in the USA!! Thanks for posting it!!
Great knife; do you mind showing pics with the blades closed??
 
I had one of those birchwood handled French knives. It was gorgeous!

However, I found that the wood kept expanding when wet, even just the dripping from cutting an apple, and started to break pretty quickly.

Could I suggest that you treat that wood? Some kind of liquid sealant and then Renaissance Wax (or similar) over the top? And be extra thorough at that seam where the bolster meets the handle.

Enjoy in good health, my friend!
 
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First time for me to post in this thread! A week ago I received this knife I ordered over Thanksgiving Weekend as a Christmas gift for me (she doesn't know it yet, but my wife will probably give it to me for Christmas ;)). I ordered it from a BF-supporting dealer Knives-of-France Knives-of-France and was very happy with the purchasing experience. The knife is a Le Sabot tonneau or barrel knife (see the shape in the first photo that give the knife its name), apparently historically a worker's knife often given by employers to seasonal workers they hired as a token of good faith upon hiring. No kick on the blade; the tip of the blade rests on the butt end of the spring. Just wanted to get a couple of photos in this thread (and then I have a hundred pages of posts here to catch up on). I'm very pleased with the carbon steel blade and oak handle combination! I rolled the die and I won!
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- GT
 
5K Qs said:
First time for me to post in this thread! A week ago I received this knife I ordered over Thanksgiving Weekend as a Christmas gift for me (she doesn't know it yet, but my wife will probably give it to me for Christmas ;)). I ordered it from a BF-supporting dealer Knives-of-France Knives-of-France and was very happy with the purchasing experience. The knife is a Le Sabot tonneau or barrel knife (see the shape in the first photo that give the knife its name), apparently historically a worker's knife often given by employers to seasonal workers they hired as a token of good faith upon hiring. No kick on the blade; the tip of the blade rests on the butt end of the spring. Just wanted to get a couple of photos in this thread (and then I have a hundred pages of posts here to catch up on). I'm very pleased with the carbon steel blade and oak handle combination! I rolled the die and I won!
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You chose well for your first entry. I like the simplicity, ( not meant to be a negative) of the oak.
 
Rufus1949 said:
You chose well for your first entry. I like the simplicity, ( not meant to be a negative) of the oak.
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Thanks, Bob. :)
I definitely have an interest in inexpensive work knives from around the world (although most of the ones I currently have are from Europe or North America), so reading the description of the tonneau knife caught my attention. I could have bought oak, boxwood, olive wood, black horn, or rhodoid (looks like what I've usually called French ivory, and Google suggests it's celluloid), and I'm always a sucker for olive wood, but I've lived for the past 38 years in a house with a couple of massive oak trees in the yard, and I thought oak might be a very traditional choice for what the website calls a "classic farm worker knife". (If walnut had been an option, I might still be trying to decide between oak and walnut.)

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Thanks, Bob. :)
I definitely have an interest in inexpensive work knives from around the world (although most of the ones I currently have are from Europe or North America), so reading the description of the tonneau knife caught my attention. I could have bought oak, boxwood, olive wood, black horn, or rhodoid (looks like what I've usually called French ivory, and Google suggests it's celluloid), and I'm always a sucker for olive wood, but I've lived for the past 38 years in a house with a couple of massive oak trees in the yard, and I thought oak might be a very traditional choice for what the website calls a "classic farm worker knife". (If walnut had been an option, I might still be trying to decide between oak and walnut.)

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Great back story on your choice.
 
5K Qs said:
First time for me to post in this thread! A week ago I received this knife I ordered over Thanksgiving Weekend as a Christmas gift for me (she doesn't know it yet, but my wife will probably give it to me for Christmas ;)). I ordered it from a BF-supporting dealer Knives-of-France Knives-of-France and was very happy with the purchasing experience. The knife is a Le Sabot tonneau or barrel knife (see the shape in the first photo that give the knife its name), apparently historically a worker's knife often given by employers to seasonal workers they hired as a token of good faith upon hiring. No kick on the blade; the tip of the blade rests on the butt end of the spring. Just wanted to get a couple of photos in this thread (and then I have a hundred pages of posts here to catch up on). I'm very pleased with the carbon steel blade and oak handle combination! I rolled the die and I won!
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Glad you like it :thumbsup:
 
Since it is now Friday in the Hexagon, I can safely post my French Friday knife, the same I have been carrying all week on walks amongst the arroyos and canyons and hills here in New Mexico.

The Opinel N°10 is hiding on this table somewhere underneath our last dinner meal here. Tomorrow we drive back to Colorado where I will likely continue carrying it almost every day.

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