France's oldest knifemaker, working since the fifteenth century. Boxwood handle, pyrogravure marks, a wooden ring for a lock.

Triple-laminated steel and curly birch, made in a small workshop on the west coast of Norway.

The knife Swedish carpenters and foresters have carried for a century. Cheap, sharp, and beyond argument.

Antonini have been making these in Maniago since 1907. Laminated wood, carbon steel, and a price that makes it easy to start here.

Beechwood, carbon steel, one rotating collar. Unchanged since 1890 and still the knife most French households actually own.