On top is a genuine Laguiole pocket knife made in the eponymous French town. You can tell it's the real thing because of the cowhorn handle with brass tips and an 'L' stamped on the blade. The blade is 78mm long and thus illegal to carry in your pocket in the UK. Axes and chainsaws are legal, it seems. This also poses the problem that if you buy a kitchen knife, how the hell do you get it home?
The bottom knife is a bargain from a French motorway service station.You can tell by the green plywood handle. It is made in China. Nearly everything is made in China. For all you know I might be made in China.
Some stuff is pretty good, it would seem. Peugeot lends its names to power tools made in China, but the m-i-C Fox mortiser I am trying unsuccessfully to get rid of is a piece of shit. A quick reality check round the workshop revealed that the good stuff was all made in Europe. We have big fuck off machines that were Made in England, but currently, most of the good British makes are made in Italy.
Call me old-fashioned, and chauvinistic, but I would rather support the ailing European economy than the booming Chinese one. And I don't like bloody Chinese food either.
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