Coutellerie du Barry: a certificate for your knife
We examine your knife and enter it into the A.I.P.C.L., even if you bought it elsewhere
Videos about this forge
We visit the workshops ourselves and show how the work is done. One click opens the video on YouTube.
You own a knife by Coutellerie du Barry but did not buy it at original-laguiole.de? You can still have it entered into the A.I.P.C.L. A genuine knife from this forge stays a genuine knife, whichever counter it crossed.
Who is Coutellerie du Barry?
Coutellerie du Barry is a forge full of soul: founded as a small family business, it grows not through size but through refinement. The tension between rustic authenticity and a fine finish is resolved here in harmony. The knives often carry handle materials with warmth and structure, the spring work is solid, the finish careful. For people who want not only to look at a knife but to feel it.
What we look at on a knife by Coutellerie du Barry
Every forge has its signature. With Coutellerie du Barry it is the handle materials with warmth and structure, the solid spring work and the careful finish. That is exactly what allows a knife to be identified, and it is what we examine in your photographs. If a question remains, we go to the forge itself.
A portrait of the forge
In the middle of the village of Laguiole, the birthplace of these knives, Laguiole du Barry does its work. The house is one of the few businesses still making knives directly at the place of origin. Élodie Monteiro carries the family inheritance forward in the second generation and shows the workshop on social media as it really is, with nothing in between. This combination of origin and present day makes the firm unusual.
The quality of the individual knife clearly comes before quantity. Blades are made from Sandvik 12C27 or 12C27MOD, a Swedish stainless steel known for hardness, edge holding and resistance to corrosion. Alongside classic handle materials such as olive wood, new materials are deliberately used, carbon for instance, which gives familiar designs a different presence. Bee, spring decoration or choice of material, every detail is decided piece by piece.
The modest size of the workshop opens up freedoms that larger houses do not have. That is why special editions are created regularly together with original-laguiole.de, in which the bee gives way to figures or motifs of their own. The result is genuine craft from the village of Laguiole, with no surcharge for a brand name.
More about this forge
How it works
You order the examination. In the original-laguiole.de shop, for 10.00 euros, like a product. Then you upload photographs of your knife in your customer account: open and closed, the bee, the spine, the blade with the forge mark, and if available the receipt or packaging.
We examine it. We compare your knife with what we know from 30 years of trading with French forges, and when in doubt we ask the forge itself.
You get the result. If your knife is genuine it receives its own number, its page on aipcl.com and the certificate as a PDF. If it is not, we tell you that too.
What it costs
10.00 eurosExamining and registering one knife costs 10.00 euros.
If the examination shows that your knife does not come from a French forge, we refund the amount, of course. You pay only for a certificate you actually receive.
The examination is ordered in the original-laguiole.de shop. With the purchase you buy the examination, not the certificate; whether we issue it depends on the result of examining your photographs.
Order the examination (10.00 euros)