Carbon steel and old style dyed wood handle Nogent / Cuisine Massif 17cm / 6.75" Flexible Fillet with hand forged and hand ground blade, aluminum ferrule ring and 'ebonized' iron and oak gall dyed handle. Blade is very flexible.

No markings but these would have been made in Thiers or nearby Saint Remy. Some have some small residual pepperspots from a little corrosion that had started but are otherwise unused from the 1950s or early 60s.

Nogent / Cuisine Massif style knives are characterized by their one piece wood handles, with a rat tail stick tang extending to the end of the handle and a round steel or aluminum ferrule. ‘Cuisine Massif’ was used to describe the style in Thiers, as Nogent was a rival knife making city.

These knives were made in or around Theirs, France likely in the 1950‘s. They are thin and light being hand forged on an old style 'Martinet' mechanical hammer and then ground by hand on stone wheels, very similaryly to how knives were made in the 19th and early 20th century, these techniques and equipment are now long gone.

Please note these can have small imperfections, very slight cants or waviness to the edge is possible as well. We do quality control on these but tiny imperfections are part of the picture. Expect the handle to stain your hands the first few times you use this knife, it is an iron oxide based pigment and not toxic.

These come with. afresh edge

Brand: Various
Producing Area: Theirs, France
Profile: fillet
Size: 6.75"
Steel Type: Carbon Steel
Handle: 'Ebonized' fruitwood or beechwood
Total Length: 11.5"
Hand Orientation: Ambidextrous

Fillet

New Old Stock Sabatier Nogent / Cuisine Massif 17cm / 6.75" Flexible Fillet Carbon 50s-60s?