Vintage drop point Opinel

[Babbling_Brooks]

Hello everyone,

I bought this knife from Ebay a few days ago. Looks like a normal Opinel No. 8 but with a drop point blade. I can't find any info anywhere about Opinel making a knife like this. Anyone have any ideas? There's nothing on the knife that would indicat it was modded.

 

[EngrSorenson]

Handsome find. Reminds me of the Garden Knife.

 

[btb01]

Interesting find. I’ve never found a good resource for dating Opinel’s various blade stamps and handle logos, but it looks like your lock ring doesn’t have the feature to lock the knife when closed, which I think dates it to before 2000.

I agree that the blade was not modified from a standard Opinel blade. There’s more material just above the nail nick than there is on the standard blade.

 

[waynorth]

Handsome find. Reminds me of the Garden Knife.

Yes; a gardener's knife!

 

[Babbling_Brooks]

Interesting find. I’ve never found a good resource for dating Opinel’s various blade stamps and handle logos, but it looks like your lock ring doesn’t have the feature to lock the knife when closed, which I think dates it to before 2000.

I agree that the blade was not modified from a standard Opinel blade. There’s more material just above the nail nick than there is on the standard blade.

Thanks for the reply! I found this chart online. If it is accurate I think my knife is from the 90s.

https://i.redd.it/ec8fevt8bb191.jpg

 

[Babbling_Brooks]

Yes; a gardener's knife!

I thought it could be, but the garden knife's handle is different than this one.

 

[waynorth]

I thought it could be, but the garden knife's handle is different than this one.

I think it's an older version!!

 

[Henry Beige]

Is the blade stainless or carbon? These days, all the special Opinels appear to be stainless, meaning anything that doesn’t have the traditional flared pommel, trailing point, and beechwood handle.

BTW, I have always thought of the blade on my garden knife as a spear point.

 

[Mongo]

Hello everyone,

I bought this knife from Ebay a few days ago. Looks like a normal Opinel No. 8 but with a drop point blade. I can't find any info anywhere about Opinel making a knife like this. Anyone have any ideas? There's nothing on the knife that would indicat it was modded.

I have one of these, in carbon steel. I wish I had a dozen more. I have been looking for another for a long long time.

 

[BrotherJim]

I've swapped blades around on Opinels before.
Possible that's what happened here but not saying that's what happened ... just possible.

 

[Will Power]

Is the blade stainless or carbon? These days, all the special Opinels appear to be stainless, meaning anything that doesn’t have the traditional flared pommel, trailing point, and beechwood handle.

BTW, I have always thought of the blade on my garden knife as a spear point.

Agree about the blade, looks Spear to me not Drop-Point.

Here's an interesting variant, the Oyster Knife:

 

[Ratatoskr]

I used to knock blades off garden knives and put them on No. 8 handles. My favorite Opie next to the standard No. 9.
That's not what you've got, the logo is different, but it's functionally the same knife.

 

[philippe]

Is the blade stainless or carbon? These days, all the special Opinels appear to be stainless, meaning anything that doesn’t have the traditional flared pommel, trailing point, and beechwood handle.

BTW, I have always thought of the blade on my garden knife as a spear point.

Hello
It is written on the handle : carbone blade "lame acier au carbone"

 

[meako]

FOLDING OYSTER KNIFE ??? naah.doomed.

 

[Will Power]

FOLDING OYSTER KNIFE ??? naah.doomed.

Uh uh! It's a LOCKING tool - I don't remove the collars from my Opinels....and it has no edges rather like a number of revered GEC knives a genius pry-bar. You should get one, all those fine Oysters you have in Aus

Somebody will of course want a Carbon one for 'tradition' just right for salt water