Nontron Knives
Nontron knives have been fashioned in the tiny village of Nontron in the Perigord region of France for the
past 500 years. The methods in use today have remained virtually the same since the fifteenth century –
individual craftsmen using their own rasps, anvils and finishing tools to create a work of folk artistry – the
Nontron knife. The factory, if in fact a tiny building housing a handful of men and a collection of antique hand
tools can be called a factory, is the oldest continuously operating cutlery forge in France.Each knife is an
original work by one of only six artisan knife makers. The blade is forged from 440A high carbon stainless
steel. Then tempered in the iron rich water of the Perigord. The boxwood used in every Nontron handle is
cut only in the region and patiently allowed to air-dry for at least five years before being cut, shaped and
finished as a handle.
Each knife is hand decorated with a circle of pyrograved figures of ancient and unknown significance. A
small knot in the boxwood, a slight difference in the figures, which encircle the handle, these unique
characteristics ensure that every Nontron is a unique, distinct object.
"I have a Nontron"..When you say this, when you have this knife in your pocket, it's as if someone were
speaking to you of a time when useful things were beautiful, when steel was harder, when wood was the
color of honey and truth was simple and direct. Today, France's oldest knife. Handcrafted and guaranteed for
life.
past 500 years. The methods in use today have remained virtually the same since the fifteenth century –
individual craftsmen using their own rasps, anvils and finishing tools to create a work of folk artistry – the
Nontron knife. The factory, if in fact a tiny building housing a handful of men and a collection of antique hand
tools can be called a factory, is the oldest continuously operating cutlery forge in France.Each knife is an
original work by one of only six artisan knife makers. The blade is forged from 440A high carbon stainless
steel. Then tempered in the iron rich water of the Perigord. The boxwood used in every Nontron handle is
cut only in the region and patiently allowed to air-dry for at least five years before being cut, shaped and
finished as a handle.
Each knife is hand decorated with a circle of pyrograved figures of ancient and unknown significance. A
small knot in the boxwood, a slight difference in the figures, which encircle the handle, these unique
characteristics ensure that every Nontron is a unique, distinct object.
"I have a Nontron"..When you say this, when you have this knife in your pocket, it's as if someone were
speaking to you of a time when useful things were beautiful, when steel was harder, when wood was the
color of honey and truth was simple and direct. Today, France's oldest knife. Handcrafted and guaranteed for
life.
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