Laguiole knife

The Laguiole knife (French pronunciation: [laɡjɔl], locally [lajɔl]) is a traditional Occitan pocketknife originally produced in the "knife city" of Thiers, source of 70% of France's cutting tool production, as well as the small village of Laguiole, both located in the Massif Central region of France. Laguiole in this instance does not refer to any knife brand in France, where use of the name is not legally restricted, but to a generic type of traditional slipjoint knife of a sort associated with this French region, now made worldwide.