The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 ea (shipped within CONUS). Now open to the forums as a whole. If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges. If there are customs issues? On you.
What's the brand of the one that isn't Sabot?Good day, all. I've acquired another pair of Aurillacs - top in Cocobolo, bottom in Horn (Corne).
Its certificat d'authenticité says it's from Coutellerie Le Fidele.What's the brand of the one that isn't Sabot?
Congrats Vince, looking forward to more pictures.
Le Thiers Nature par Fontenille Pataud, boxwood handle, 14C28 steel.
I am about to head out of town. Will take more and better pics later.
Le Thiers Nature par Fontenille Pataud, boxwood handle, 14C28 steel.
I am about to head out of town. Will take more and better pics later.
Congrats Vince, looking forward to more pictures.
Gerd
Thanks, fellas!Looks really nice Vince. This is gonna sound kinda silly but it flows. Very pleasing to the eyes and I'm sure stout enough to perform any task you may give it.
Really good looking knife.A few more photos of my latest acquisition:
Le Thiers Nature par Fontenille Pataud, boxwood handle, 14C28 steel.
Some closeups of the file work.
The knife has a good handle to blade ratio, with good balance. The blade tip rests in a groove milled in the spring:
The spring extension works as the lock release, and also has a lanyard hole.
The blade steel.
The knife is a perfect fit for my hand:
And it comes with a nice leather pocket sheath:
Comparison with a smaller Thiers knife and an Opinel No. 8:
I went on a short trip out of town today, and we stopped at a German restaurant for lunch. They gave me a plastic knife! Guess what I used instead:
I had the Milano plate. First time I ate a a German restaurant without beer. I think they are working on getting a liquor license. Anyway, I took care of the problem when I got home:
A votre santé!
Danke, Gerd. I love good French wines, but German beer is wonderful. The dish I had at the German restaurant was Milano, which is Italian. I am very cosmopolitan, n'est-ce pas?Really good looking knife.
Normally I would say that such a good looking French knife deserves a good French wine but being a German myself I can easily understand the beer
Gerd
Thanks, Ed. I am very pleased with it. There were so many cover options available, it was hard to choose one. But I love the boxwood--simple, elegant, old fashioned.That's a really nice knife Vince Prester John . The file work on the spring is clean and sharp, and the way the blade nestles into the grooved spring is unique. The covers are very nice too.
You're welcome, Charlie. I'm going to be carrying this one a lot!
A few more photos of my latest acquisition:
Le Thiers Nature par Fontenille Pataud, boxwood handle, 14C28 steel.
À votre santé!
In this case you can call it Wiener Schnitzel!Danke, Gerd. I love good French wines, but German beer is wonderful. The dish I had at the German restaurant was Milano, which is Italian. I am very cosmopolitan, n'est-ce pas?
A la tienne! Imho 14c28 is a great improvement over 12c27A few more photos of my latest acquisition:
Le Thiers Nature par Fontenille Pataud, boxwood handle, 14C28 steel.
Some closeups of the file work.
The knife has a good handle to blade ratio, with good balance. The blade tip rests in a groove milled in the spring:
The spring extension works as the lock release, and also has a lanyard hole.
The blade steel.
The knife is a perfect fit for my hand:
And it comes with a nice leather pocket sheath:
Comparison with a smaller Thiers knife and an Opinel No. 8:
I went on a short trip out of town today, and we stopped at a German restaurant for lunch. They gave me a plastic knife! Guess what I used instead:
I had the Milano plate. First time I ate a a German restaurant without beer. I think they are working on getting a liquor license. Anyway, I took care of the problem when I got home:
À votre santé!
Really good looking knife.
Normally I would say that such a good looking French knife deserves a good French wine but being a German myself I can easily understand the beer
Gerd