Laguiole Aveyron: 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
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You own a knife by Laguiole Aveyron 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 Laguiole Aveyron?
At Laguiole Aveyron an original heart is beating: every blade recalls the high ground, the air, the shepherds' paths. Materials are valued locally, handles reflect the surrounding nature, spring work and finish remain visibly and tangibly done by hand. This forge brings the terroir into the knife, not as decoration but as cause, formed by landscape and by tradition.
What we look at on a knife by Laguiole Aveyron
Every forge has its signature. With Laguiole Aveyron it is the locally valued materials and the spring work visibly and tangibly done by hand. 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
The Aveyron is the department where the Laguiole was born. To name a workshop after that country is to commit to a whole origin, not merely to a word. At Laguiole Aveyron you can feel it: in the handle materials, in the spring work and in the finish it stays visible that a hand has been at work here and that nothing has been forced to an artificial shine.
The knives follow the classic Laguiole line without overloading it. The relation of blade to handle, the way the knife sits in the hand, the weight: these are the points that matter, and that is exactly where the care shows. Anyone looking for a knife that gets by without fuss and still lasts is in the right place.
That restraint has a practical advantage. A knife not meant for a display case ends up being used, and after some years a used knife tells more than one that was never opened. For entry in the A.I.P.C.L. the amount of decoration makes no difference. Only the origin counts.
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)