Laguiole Tradition: 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 Laguiole Tradition 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 Tradition?
Here tradition is not merely a word, it is the programme. This workshop does everything to keep the classic shape, the familiar dimensions, the spring types and the decoration as they have grown over decades. No experiments, no passing fashion, but purity of line, clarity of profile and a feeling for weight, proportion and grip. Knives for purists who are looking for the origin.
What we look at on a knife by Laguiole Tradition
Every forge has its signature. With Laguiole Tradition it is the unchanged classic shape, the familiar dimensions, the spring types and the handed down decoration. 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
Tradition here is not a word on the packaging but the brief. This workshop keeps the classic shape, the inherited dimensions, the familiar spring types and the decoration exactly as they have grown over decades. No experiments, no fashionable extras, but a pure line and a clear profile.
That self restraint is harder than it sounds. If you add nothing, you can hide nothing. The smallest inaccuracy in the spring, the least imperfect join between handle and bolster would show at once. Weight, proportion and the way the knife sits in the hand are therefore the real work on these knives, and anyone who has handled a few Laguioles notices the difference immediately.
That makes these knives the right choice for anyone looking for the origin rather than an interpretation. Such a piece does not age, because it never set out to be modern. It stays exactly what it was on the first day and remains clearly identifiable decades later.
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)