Guy Vialis Le Thiers Steak knife brushed, Black Paperstone, front top bolster

The Thiers knife, at your table

Le Thiers® is the knife of the town of Thiers, France's cutlery capital. You know it by its double-wave outline, whose bevels are reversed at each end of the handle, and by the absence of a bee. It is a collective trademark registered with the INPI by the Confrérie du Couteau LE THIERS® in 1994, and its use is governed by a Jurande charter covering quality, traceability, professionalism and territory, with the prototype presented to the Jurande Council before manufacture (source lethiers.fr). Guy Vialis gives it his own reading for the table: an 11 cm hand-sharpened Sandvik 12C27 stainless steel blade on a 12 cm handle, 23 cm in all. Three builds, one knife. The full handle lets the material run from end to end and weighs 65 g. A single bolster, the stainless steel cap that covers one end of the handle and protects it from knocks, brings the knife to 97 g. Two bolsters, one at each end, bring it to 110 g and give it its most classic look. The metal parts come brushed, a matte satin, or mirror-polished. The handle is chosen from a palette of 27 materials announced in the catalogue: wood, horn, bone, carbon, stamina, PaperStone® and acrylic. Online that makes 109 pages, 37 handle versions and 31 base materials, from stamina to buffalo horn, from ebony to recycled PaperStone®. The knife is sold in a set of 2 or a set of 6, for an everyday table as much as for a gift. PaperStone® is a composite of recycled paper pressed with resin: dense, matte, warm in the hand, highly resistant to water and heat. Two families answer each other at the house's table. The Château LAGUIOLE® Heritage and Signature steak knives follow the Laguiole line, carry the forged bee, come only with two bolsters, are built in X46Cr13 stainless steel and are sold in sets of 2, 4 or 6, from 96 € per knife. The Le Thiers® steak knife by Guy Vialis follows the Thiers line, with no bee, in Sandvik 12C27 stainless steel, offers all three builds (full handle, single bolster, two bolsters) and starts at about 55 € per knife in a set of 2. It is therefore the most accessible steak knife in the house, and the only one that lets you choose the build. It shares its steel and most of its handle materials with the Le Thiers® folding knife by Guy Vialis: it is the only range that lets you match a table service and a pocket knife. Since 11/09/2026, no steak knife in the house is sold singly: both families start at the set of 2. Prices incl. VAT France, read on 11/09/2026; per-knife prices given as a basis for comparison. Guy Vialis, a French sommelier, is the man who created the Château LAGUIOLE® sommelier knife in 1993; he was also a cutler known for his traditional knives and for the kitchen knives he made for starred chefs and leading restaurateurs. He died in 2016. His brand was taken over by LIGNE W, founded in 2008 by Sébastien Lézier, who bought Château LAGUIOLE at the end of 2017, and it now lives under the umbrella brand Maison Château LAGUIOLE®, created in 2021. The knives are made in our workshop in Thiers (Puy-de-Dôme, France), in keeping with the standards set by the Confrérie du Couteau de Thiers, and pay tribute to 600 years of Thiers cutlery.