Laguiole Claude Dozorme: 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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We visit the workshops ourselves and show how the work is done. One click opens the video on YouTube.
You own a knife by Laguiole Claude Dozorme 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 Claude Dozorme?
Claude Dozorme is a legend of the Thiers cutlery trade: since 1902 the family firm has worked to make Laguiole knives of uncompromising quality. Every steel is chosen with care, every handle worked at length, and every knife passes through dozens of steps, from the laser cut to the fine grind, from polishing to engraving. Innovation is not feared here but taken up with respect for tradition: modern technique, solid materials, limited series. And with all that a passion that can be felt in every stroke on the blade.
What we look at on a knife by Laguiole Claude Dozorme
Every forge has its signature. With Laguiole Claude Dozorme it is the combination of modern technique and traditional work that has marked this family firm since 1902. 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 house was founded in 1902 by Blaise Dozorme at La Monnerie near Thiers. His nickname, the wolf, later became the mark of the manufactory. His son Valentin took over in 1934, and in the 1970s Claude carried the workshop forward and launched the first Laguiole table blade in the early 1980s. In 1991 Claudine Dozorme joined and reorganised sales, marketing and product development; in 2013 she was named personality of the year in the Auvergne. At the end of 2020 she handed the business to Didier Perret. Four generations and more than 120 years are therefore present in every knife.
Production still takes place in the firm's own manufactory near Thiers, with around 18 staff and more than 45 operations per knife. Laser cutting and numerically controlled grinding sit alongside movements of the hand that have not changed for centuries. Roughly ten tonnes of steel are worked each year, stainless as well as damascus. The house carries the state label Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant and belongs to the Confrérie du Couteau de Thiers and to Esprit de Thiers.
The range is as varied as French knife making itself and covers the Thiers, Laguiole, Capucin, Basque and Corse patterns. Two of the firm's own developments stand out: the Drop9 system, in which a ball set in the handle allows one handed opening, and the Verrou system, which locks the blade in the open position. Kitchen and steak knives, wine accessories and champagne sabres complete the picture.
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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)