Holiday Gift Guide Cosmetic B Stock - New Old Stock Nogent / Cuisine Massive 20cm / 8" Chef Carbon St Remy Thiers 50s? Tool [vodgmikx]

Cosmetic B stock knives are marked down for cosmetic scuffs to ferrules, small hairlines in handle or irregular finish grind surface appearance on blade. Edges are straight within appropriate standards for hand forged hand ground knives.

Maybe the most sought after size? 20cm 7 7/8" (aka 8") fine ground carbon steel blade Cuisine Massive / Nogent style chef knife in, unused condition. These needed a little more cleaning than some others we have recently listed but are still top shelf manufacture with a hand ground hand forged blade, a clean fit up with an aluminum ferrule (likely suggests 1950's construction) and one piece old style ink dyed beech or fruitwood wood handle. 

No markings but these would have been made in Thiers or nearby Saint Remy.

These are discounted cosmetic B stock having cracks in the handles (which are still secure) and or dimples on the ferrules. All have straight blades. Some have some small residual pepperspots from a little corrosion that had started. We separated these from ones that had bent blades. 

Nogent 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 Massive’ 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 rust spots or 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.

Please request sharpening if desired, they are not sharp now.