Jean-Michel Cayron: 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 Jean-Michel Cayron 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 Jean-Michel Cayron?
Jean-Michel Cayron stands for devotion and a love of perfection. In his workshop every knife is treated as a personal project: blade, spring, bee and handle, all details tuned to one another with an eye on balance, cutting performance and durability. No mass production, no superfluous ornament, but character, soul and craft that can be felt with every stroke along the bevel.
What we look at on a knife by Jean-Michel Cayron
Every forge has its signature. With Jean-Michel Cayron it is the details of blade, spring, bee and handle tuned to one another, without superfluous ornament. 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
Jean-Michel Cayron stands for dedication and a love of precision. In his workshop every knife counts as a project of its own: blade, spring, bee and handle are matched to one another with an eye to balance, cutting performance and durability. No mass production, no superfluous ornament, but character and a craft you can feel with every stroke along the bevel.
This way of working has consequences for the numbers. Anyone who treats each knife as a separate task cannot deliver large series, and that is exactly what makes the pieces interesting to collectors. No two knives are ever quite the same, if only because the handle materials never show the same figure twice.
For a house like this, entry in the A.I.P.C.L. is more than a piece of paper. It records when a knife was made and for whom, and it travels with the piece when it is sold on. In twenty years it will still be possible to establish what a buyer today simply knows.
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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)