Bordeaux Hand Forged Steel Laguiole Steak Knife Handmade Pocket Knives French Knife Steak Knife USA Made | BMK-616

Description

The Bordeaux is the quiet one: mid-brown timber, a corkscrew, and no decoration that is not doing a job.

Where it fits: everyday rather than occasional. A knife plain enough that you will actually use it on a Tuesday instead of saving it, and good enough that you notice the difference when you do. A 4.5 inch blade, 10 inches unfolded, 3.5 ounces.

Two tools, one handle

Blade at one end, worm at the other, one spring between them doing both jobs. That economy is the reason the sommelier Laguiole survived while more complicated designs did not. Deploy one at a time — with the blade shut you have a corkscrew and a safe handle to pull on, and with the worm folded you have a clean table knife. Trying to use both open at once is how people cut themselves. The worm is the part that wears first on any sommelier pattern, because a tight cork puts a twisting load on a thin spiral. This one is seated deep into the handle so that load passes into the pivot and the liners rather than being carried by the spiral on its own.

Mid-brown timber at a table

This handle is a plain even brown, moderately open in the grain, without dramatic figure. That is a deliberate choice rather than a lesser one. Undecorated wood shows the shape of the handle — the swell under the palm, the taper toward the bolster — where a busy burl hides it. It also ages predictably: an even darkening across the whole scale rather than blotches, and a low sheen that builds where the hand sits. It is the least demanding handle in the range, asking nothing beyond being dried.

The spring line

Look at the closed knife side-on and the spine is one unbroken curve from the front bolster to the tail. That curve is the spring itself, visible along its whole length, terminating in the small bee at the rear. Nothing is hiding the mechanism, which is unusual in a folding knife and is part of why the pattern reads as honest.

Care: wipe the blade dry, keep cork dust and crumbs out of the pivot, and rinse the joint with the blade held open if it starts to feel gritty. Dry it fully before closing. A little oil in the joint each season. Never a dishwasher, and never put away damp.

FAQs

Is the corkscrew strong enough for a tight cork? Yes. Send it straight into the cork and lift squarely instead of rocking it sideways.

Will the handle color vary? Slightly. Wood is not uniform between blocks.

What ships alongside it? One hand-stitched leather sheath.

Read hand forged versus factory knives, compare honing against sharpening, or look at multi blade pocket knives for related patterns.

Model: BMK-616