Addendum: My wife calls me the cork dork.

Secondly: There is a historical interest in these pieces of usable art.
The ones I bought were made in the same village by the same family line that
made Napoleons swords.

I think these are my Waterloo.

"dick" > wrote in message
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> Well, I am embarrassed to say that I am fascinated with them. The
laguioles.
> I bought a set of steak knives in Beaune that were indeed expensive. They
> were surgical quality. We bought 2 boxes of 6 ea.
>
> Then I bought several wine openers.
>
> Lets face the truth. I did not need them. I did it for the same reason
men
> do everything. When I bought the steak knives for an anniversary 5 years
> ago my wife gave me that special thank you.:-)
>
> I kept buying more and more cork openers looking for the same effect.
What
> I did not connect was it was the wine she was drinking that really put her
> in the mood.
>
> Since this is a non commercial group I will not put my not needed laguiole
5
> that I own plus a picnic knife up for sale. I do enjoy them and they
really
> do perform better than any waiters tool I have ever used.
>
> Like Rabbi Chris Rock said "If men can screw in a trailer they wouldn't
> bother to buy a house."
>
> Enjoy
>
> Pretentious Dick
>
> "Bill Spohn" > wrote in message
> ...
> > >but really fell more
> > >"à l'aise" with the geometry of my Lagiole, the upstroke being
> > >slightly longer than with the two-step waiters friend,
> >
> > I agree that using a well made implement has an innate reward, and you
> have a
> > point - geometry will vary and there is no reason, I suppose, that a
> single
> > stroke screw couldn't be adequate for almost all corks.
> >
> > I guess the ideal might be a two-step Laguiole, but I don't believe
> they've
> > offered that yet.
> >
> > The whole Laguiole thing puts me in mind of pens. Some people like
owning
> a
> > particular sort of pen for the presumed prestige it offers - yuppie
toys.
> Other
> > people may value the same thing more from the functional point of view.
> >
> > I own and use a couple of beautifully made Mont Blanc fountain pens (you
> have
> > to do something with all those gold card points and a man only needs so
> many
> > toasters), and I enjoy writing with them - I've been using fountain pens
> since
> > high school. I see people with Mont Blanc ball points, and I can't help
> > thinking that they could only want what is in essence a fancy cover for
a
> > generic ballpoint refill for yuppie bragging reasons, as there is little
> > functional reason to prefer such a pen.
> >
> > The Laguile corkscrews are an intermediate case. The workmanship is
> admirable
> > and they are worth some appreciation as objets d'art, but they also
> function
> > (old crumbly corks aside for the moment) exceedingly well.
> >
> > It makes me a bit nervous however when I see the yuppie wine fans
pulling
> their
> > high end Laguioles from their custom leather cases in which they carry
> them
> > everywhere, never wanting to miss an opportunity to impress each other.
> >
> > I suppose that I should not allow the fact that some people do that to
> > influence me or tempt me to class them in with other useless yuppie
flash,
> as
> > they are really much more like a Mont Blanc fountain pen than a Mont
Blanc
> > ballpoint......
>
>