20/20® folding pocket knife, with rosewood handle

A folding knife with a very simple and refined shape. The 20/20® is a straight knife (20 cm open), full handle, with visible screws.
The very wide shape of its blade (20mm high, without point) changes from the traditional shapes of pocket knives, and recalls the blades of straight razors.
The 20/20® is sleek, modern and practical with everyday use.

Type: Modern and refined design folding knife
Handle material: Rosewood
Spring: Forced notch system
Raw material of the blade: 12C27 Stainless steel
Open length: 20cm
Sleeve length: 10.8cm
Blade length: 9.2cm
blade/handle height: 20mm
Weight: about 90g

No dishwasher

Delivered with certificate of authenticity

This knife 20/20® is handmade in the Laguiole Le Fidèle workshops near Thiers, France.

It is unique, and the creation process requires over 170 manual operations by the craftsmen.

Rosewood handle

There are not only one but several rose-woods.
From "female" rosewood, perfume can be distilled. The other variety of rose-wood is regularly used in marquetry and, historically, for furniture (18th century especially) because of how magnificently it polishes up.
For the anecdote: as rosewood was originally employed in marquetry to inlay flowers into bunches of flowers, it was nicknamed "tulipwood".
The French name "bois de rose" is more closely inspired by its colour and its delightful sweet aromatic smell.
It is a very fine-grained regular wood that polishes up beautifully and will doubtlessly charm amateurs of beautiful objects.
It is also a very heavy and hard wood. The sculptor had better use well honed tools to carve it!