What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

I carried my Eureka today.
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BrotherJim said:
Getting ready for French / Black Friday and up pops this Laguiole 10.5 cm Fontenille Pataud "Le Pocket" lockback ... and it may be the leading contender for Friday's carry.

I have several French made knives. Some might say a bunch. I like France too, although I found France to be expensive on several visits there while in the military. Think maybe I even have a few French Francs stashed in a jar somewhere along with coins and notes from many, many places I visited. Most all those monies are obsolete now though, what with the Euro and everything since about 2002. The thing is too, I don't speak a word of French.

So please don't ask me how to pronounce "Laguiole". EVERYONE you ask how to pronounce "Laguiole" will tell you something different ... even in Laguiole.

France is a great beauty. As such it possesses all the qualities that one finds in any other great beauty: chic, sexiness, grandeur, arrogance, and the absolute inability and refusal to listen to reason. So if you're going to France, you would do well to remember this: No matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Frenchman a question, he will persist in answering you in French.

Maybe I never learned French because France isn't a border neighbor to the U.S.A. ... but Canada is a border neighbor and I don't speak Canadian either. Well, I do know one Canadian word ... "EH". Canadians use that word a lot and sometimes it can mean about ten different things. It's complicated, and when I try to say "EH" ... it comes out more like, "HUH"

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Those F-P Pockets are I find, a very useful size and being discrete lockback is an added bonus. Bigger Lags, 12 13cm I find just too big for the pocket. Fontenille-Pataud has its detractors but I've always found them to have superb build-quality and very good customer service, pleases me anyway.

As for speaking French...I can read it more or less fluently, speak it hardly anymore and can understand spoken French depending....If I go to Paris it's really hard especially with young people but go to the South or Belgium and I don't seem to have these problems, Parisians :eek:o_O🤣 But then, people going to New York or London could have problems understanding the English there:cool:

Ask Jolipapa Jolipapa about the 'correct' pronunciation of Laguiole...there's controversy about it even in France I understand....;)
 
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