Opinel
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Opinel is a French manufacturer of pocket or pen knives. The company has made its line of eponymous wooden-handled knives since 1890 from its headquarters in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie. The compa
No. 10 Opinel knife with carbon steel blade, Virobloc twistlock, and beechwood handle
Functions of the Opinel Knife: unfolding and locking the blade
Opinel No 8 Blond Horn Handle knife
The locking ring is twisted to secure the blade in position
Laguiole knife
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The Laguiole knife is a traditional Occitan pocketknife originally produced in the "knife city" of Thiers, source of 70% of France's cutting tool production, as well as the small village of Laguiole,
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…mushroom knife (couteau à champignon), with an integral boar's hair cleaning brush. In 2014, Opinel again released new varieties of knives for cooking. Laguiole knife Douk-Douk…
Spanish Navaja dating to c. 1790; it has the yataghan style blade and curved handle which influenced the development of the classic laguiole
A modern laguiole folding knife of classic form with the blade open; the wooden grip scale shows the typical cross made of metal pins
An early twentieth-century laguiole knife with a corkscrew, the carved ivory handle in the form of a nude woman
A genuine Laguiole knife made by the "Forge de Laguiole".