Collection: កាំបិត /Opinel knife made in France 🇫🇷

Victor-Amédée Opinel, who was a peddler, learnt how to forge nails during his travels around the country. He set up his first forge workshop in Gevoudaz, a hamlet in Albiez-le-Vieux, near Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. His son Daniel later worked by his side and took over the workshop when his father died. He was to become a renowned edge-tool maker who was very much appreciated by the peasants who came to buy billhooks or sickles from him... *edge-tool maker: manufacturer of tools that have a cutting edge