Splitting Wood - Laguiole en Aubrac

Another French pocket knife. A genuine French "Laguiole". Different price class than the famous Opinel brand though, but still my EDC knife.

 

Genuine "Laguiole":

(or: why your product should not be named after a place):

 

There's probably a gazillion different makers/distributors/sellers of "Laguiole" knives (in France alone there's allegedly over 130 of them), but most of the knives - the cheap stuff - are most likely from somewhere in Asia...

 

The problem here is that "Laguiole" as a single word is neither a brand nor a single knifemaker, it is just the name of a 1,200-people village in France, and therefore cannot be protected as a brand or quality mark.

 

As a rule of thumb, only "Laguioles" with the "Laguiole Origine Garantie" as issued by the "Association de Défense du Laguiole Origine Garantie" in the town hall of the village Laguiole are genuine, hand-made knives from the region.

 

On a genuine Laguiole, you may find the wording "Laguiole Origine Garantie" written somewhere on the blade and/or the respective logo "L within O" is applied to the knife - and both of this are a protected logo resp. wording.

 

Lauguiole en Aubrac also has the bull head as protected logo.

 

Some "genuine Laguiole" makers:

Coutellerie du Barry

Fontenille Pataud

Forge de Laguiole

Honoré Durand

Laguiole en Aubrac

Laguiole Village

 

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