Traditional French Fry day

Will Power said:
Just the right shot for this knife, can I catch a whiff of Juniper even here? :cool: Always think French knives look so at home in a rustic or landscape type shot, this looks very beautiful.

Thanks, Will
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Thank you Will! Yes, without a doubt, this is my best smelling knife, haha.

This particular shot is of the French countryside right outside Sarlat-la-Canéda during a recent trip with my wife. This was also my first French knife and got me hooked :)
 
A 12 cm Laguiole made by Robert Cécon. Scales are made from buckeye.

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A knife purchased last week at the “Le Liadou du Valon” shop in Rodez. It is a limited edition of 1000 knives, called "Le Liadou de Conques". The handles are made with old oak wood, coming from the old rafters of the "Sainte Foy de Conques" abbey church. The knife itself has, apart from the old oak handle, nothing special. The very fine engravings of the spring were made by laser and are inspired by a decorative motive found on one of the capitals of the abbey church. The knife is sold in a high-quality cardboard box and is accompanied by a small, fairly well-made booklet. Since I am a big fan of oak wood I couldn't resist this knife, which otherwise is nothing spectacular. But already the fact that the handles are made from thousand-year-old oak made it, for me, well worth it. Plus I really love the Conques site. So I am very happy with his purchase.

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S Skyline Drive I think you're being a bit too modest...I think it's a remarkable knife: history of the wood, blade shape, handles and engraving :cool:

Question though - why was the roofing timber available? Had there been damage, fire, renovations? Wood-worm...:eek::D

To have handles made of 1000 year old Oak is deeply impressive. Means the timber was likely 200 years or more old when fashioned into beams and gives us a wonderful sense of continuity and unfolding of culture. Something to be proud of and something wickedly threatened by all these irresponsible war-mongerers who unfortunately are in positions of power everywhere around the world.

Thanks, Will
 
Skyline Drive said:
A knife purchased last week at the “Le Liadou du Valon” shop in Rodez. It is a limited edition of 1000 knives, called "Le Liadou de Conques". The handles are made with old oak wood, coming from the old rafters of the "Sainte Foy de Conques" abbey church. The knife itself has, apart from the old oak handle, nothing special. The very fine engravings of the spring were made by laser and are inspired by a decorative motive found on one of the capitals of the abbey church. The knife is sold in a high-quality cardboard box and is accompanied by a small, fairly well-made booklet. Since I am a big fan of oak wood I couldn't resist this knife, which otherwise is nothing spectacular. But already the fact that the handles are made from thousand-year-old oak made it, for me, well worth it. Plus I really love the Conques site. So I am very happy with his purchase.

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Looks cool and a special history. This style of knife, according to Stefan Schmalhaus video, was used for tying off grape vines by the workers in vineyards, they would use natural twigs or twine, tie up the grape vines and then cut off the excess. So is there a connection to wine production and the abbey? Monks tending to the grapes?

Edit: Yup, did a little research on the region of the abbey, apparently a long history of wine production.
 
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Haven't picked up any new French knives in quite a while, but yesterday evening, I pulled out a couple of favorites. The favorite Capuchins of my hoard.

I like that Savignac differentiates the carbon and stainless versions with the pivots. Carbon gets the collar and nail while stainless gets a hex screw. Seems appropriate.



 
I like this book of yours. I’ll probably read through it soon ;)

The blade is about 4” made from N690co. The handle is ebony and OAL is a little over 8”. It’s very comfy in hand.

Here’s a couple pics with my Cognet Douk Douk - Le Thiers.

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Poku said:
I like this book of yours. I’ll probably read through it soon ;)

The blade is about 4” made from N690co. The handle is ebony and OAL is a little over 8”. It’s very comfy in hand.

Here’s a couple pics with my Cognet Douk Douk - Le Thiers.

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That is a fine looking knife! Reminds me of Perceval.



 
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