There are 109 separate operations done for a Laguiole knife with blade only and 216 for a Laguiole knife with blade, corkscrew and punch.
Below you can see the alterations made to the raw materials. The difference between mass production and handcrafted production is this long process, which is the only way to guarantee that each knife is unique.

Our knives are made from beginning to end by the same craftsman:
1- He prepares and adjusts the knife components (spring, bolsters, blade...).
2- He adjusts the handle manually.
3- He assembles the knife in one piece (adjusting the spine, and the blade, nailing and assembling the pieces).
4- He rough-hews the handles and the handles materials manually.
5- He carries out the finishing touches: He adds the cross on the handle; he engraves the spine and rough-hews and polishes the handle.
6- He sharpens the blade.
7- He wipes down the knife.

A craftsman's shift respects the ancestral tradition of making original Laguiole knives.
Our knives are manufactured from beginning to end by the same craftsman. When a set of knives is finished, the foreman controls their quality, erases the imperfections and then the knives are rubbed and labeled.
In mass production, labour is reduced to the lowest degree.
In factories there is a division of labour. The knife goes from one unskilled-worker to the other, each of whom does one operation before he passes the knife on to the next worker. Mass-production is quota driven and thus the craftsman's skill is replaced by digitally controlled machines.