Château LAGUIOLE Signature Folding knife front top bolster Freemason

Balance and lightness in the hand

The Château LAGUIOLE® Signature folding knife keeps the curves of the Laguiole knife and pares them down. A single bolster (the steel cap at the top of the handle), a slimmed handle and 78 g in the hand: this is the house's pocket knife, made for the table, for travel and for the outdoors. The blade is Sandvik 12C27 stainless steel, a Swedish steel valued for edge retention and corrosion resistance. The spring is guilloché, that is, chased with decorative engraving, and carries the forged bee, the emblem of the Laguiole knife. Every piece is made by hand using traditional techniques and stamped with the Château LAGUIOLE® logo. Twenty-four handle materials are listed in the house catalogue; seventeen are sold here, from coloured stamina to snakewood, by way of horn, bone, oak barrel wood and briar, plus two special editions, Monaco and Freemason. Every scale of natural material is unique. Text engraving is offered free of charge at checkout. Signature or Heritage? Both Château LAGUIOLE® folding knives share the Sandvik 12C27 blade, the guilloché spring and the forged bee. The Signature has one bolster only, at the top of the handle, and an 11.5 cm handle: a cleaner, more contemporary line and a lighter object. The Heritage carries two bolsters and a 12 cm handle: the classic Laguiole silhouette. The Le Thiers® by Guy Vialis folding knife, from the house's other brand, follows the rules of the Confrérie du Couteau de Thiers and comes with a full handle, one or two bolsters, in 11 or 12 cm, with an optional corkscrew. Classic, Grand Cru and Melchior, for their part, are sommelier knives: corkscrews, not pocket knives. Château LAGUIOLE® was born in 1993 on the initiative of Guy Vialis, a French sommelier who wanted to turn a service tool into a work of art. After his death in 2016, LIGNE W, founded in 2008 by Sébastien Lézier, took over the brand at the end of 2017; since 2021 the umbrella brand Maison Château LAGUIOLE® has united Château LAGUIOLE®, LIGNE W and Guy Vialis. The knives are made in the house's own workshop in Thiers (Puy-de-Dôme), the French capital of cutlery. It is also the house behind the sommelier knives of the ASI World's Best Sommeliers, from Shinya Tasaki (1995) to Raimonds Tomsons (2023), and a partner of the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale and the Union de la Sommellerie Française. Every folding knife ships with its member card: its QR code registers the product and activates the lifetime warranty.