Opinel Stainless & Carbon Steel Garden Knife Trio, 3 Colors (001617)

The Opinel Stainless & Carbon Steel Garden Knife Trio, 3 Colors is a specially colored and boxed set of three of Opinel's most popular gardening tools:

• Opinel No.12 Folding Saw Knife
• Opinel No.08 Garden Folding Knife
• Opinel No.08 Pruning Folding Knife

Unlike the standard tools (which all have varnished beech handles), the three tools in the Garden Trio have special colorations to make them as beautiful as the fruits of your garden.  The No.12 Folding Saw Knife is stained apple green, the No.08 Garden Knife is stained eggplnat purple, and the No.08 Pruning Knife is stained tangerine orange.  The stains are thin enough to let the dotted grain of the beech handles to show through, which gives the colored handles a more natural and beautiful appearance than solid paint.

The No.12 saw blade is carbon steel with an anti-corrosion coating, while the two No.08 knife blades are made of 12C27 Sandvik Stainless Steel.  All three blades lock in both the open or closed positions by turning the iconic Virobloc locking system designed by Marcel Opinel in 1955.

This bundle comes in a wooden gift box, and is priced about 10% below buying the three tools separately.

Made in France.

The Garden Knife Trio is part of Opinel's beautiful "Garden" line of cutlery that includes:

• Opinel Green Hand Pruner
• Opinel No.08 Garden Folding Knife
• Opinel No.08 Pruning Folding Knife
• Opinel No.10 Billhoork Pruning Folding Knife
• Opinel No.12 Folding Saw Knife
• Opinel No.18 Folding Saw
• Opinel Stainless & Carbon Steel Garden Knife Trio, 3 Colors

If you fancy the bright and beautiful colors of the Garden Knife Trio and want something similar for your home or field kitchen, the Opinel Les Essentials du Cuisinier Sets are available in the following vibrant color arrangements:

• Opinel Les Essentiels du Cuisinier 50s Set
• Opinel Les Essentiels du Cuisinier Art Deco Set
• Opinel Les Essentiels du Cuisinier Loft Set
• Opinel Les Essentiels du Cuisinier Primavera Set
• Opinel Les Essentiels du Cuisinier Primo Set

The colored Les Essentiels sets are especially beautiful and will fill you with good cheer every time you use them.  Some also find the colored sets easier to use than the wood sets because the different blades with their differently colored handles are easier to distinguish at a glance or in poor light.

Keep all of your Opinel gardening tools in top working condition with Opinel Maintenance Oil.  Maintenance Oil will protect the steel against corrosion and keep the Virobloc turning smoothly.  Maintenance Oil will also penetrate the beechwood handles and prevent them from cracking when dry and rotting when wet. 

Keep all of your cutlery nice and sharp.  Not only will your blades be more effective when they are sharp, they will actually be safer to use because they will cut with less pressure than a dull blade and behave much more predictably.

There is no single or "best" way to sharpen cutlery, because we all have our different preferences and skill levels.  Different sharpening methods will also suit different blade shapes and sizes, and you probably would not use the same sharpening tool on a pocketknife and sword.  To make the matter even less universal, some prefer to sharpen at home while others sharpen in the field, so the "best" sharpening tools will necessarily differ.  Excellent ways to sharpen include:

• Edge Pro Sharpening System
• Hults Bruk Grinding Stone
• Opinel Manual Knife Sharpener
• Opinel Small Natural Sharpening Whetstone from Lombardia

Opinel Part Number -  001617
Universal Product Code -  3123840016172