The earliest forms of laguiole knife were straight-bladed and handled, the so-called laguiole droit; the classic navaja-like laguiole seems to have been developed around 1860.
Die frühesten Formen des Laguiole-Messers hatten starre Klingen, das sogenannte Laguiole droit; das klassische navaja-artige Laguiole scheint um 1860 entstanden zu sein.