Prestige edition Laguiole knife with rosewood handle and stainless steel bolsters

Type : Laguiole knife and folding - Prestige edition
Raw material of the handle : rosewood
Spring : Bee and spring forged
Blade : 12C27 stainless steel blade of a thickness of 3 mm to the stub
Spring and Blade : Hand guilloched/chiseled (3 design)
Plates : 2 hand guilloched/chiseled plates, indented with ebony wood wafers of 2mm
Bolsters : 2 inox bolsters
Dimensions & Weight : 22cm Open (8.7in), 12cm (4.7in) Closed, in average 100-110g

No dishwasher

Delivered with certificate of authenticity

This knife 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!