Prestige edition Laguiole knife with Yew wood handle and stainless steel bolsters

Type : Laguiole knife and folding - Prestige edition
Raw material of the handle : Yew wood
Spring : Bee and spring forged
Blade : 12C27 stainless steel blade of a thickness of 3 mm to the stub
Spring and Blade : Hand guilloched/chiseled (3 design)
Plates : 2 hand guilloched/chiseled plates, indented with ebony wood wafers of 2mm
Bolsters : 2 inox bolsters
Dimensions & Weight : 22cm Open (8.7in), 12cm (4.7in) Closed, in average 100-110g

No dishwasher

Delivered with certificate of authenticity

This knife is handmade in the Laguiole Le Fidèle workshops near Thiers, France.

It is unique, and the creation process requires over 170 manual operations by the craftsmen.

Yew wood handle

Taxus baccata is a species of evergreen tree in the family Taxaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. Wood from the yew is classified as a closed-pore softwood, similar to cedar and pine.
Easy to work, yew is among the hardest of the softwoods, yet it possesses a remarkable elasticity, making it ideal for products that require springiness, such as bows.The late Robert Lundberg, a noted luthier who performed extensive research on historical lute-making methodology, states in his 2002 book Historical Lute Construction that yew was historically a prized wood for lute construction.