Opinel - N°08 Foraging Mushroom Folding Knife – Premium 7cm French Sandvik Stainless Pruning Knife with Boar Bristle Brush

Opinel - N°08 Foraging Mushroom Folding Knife – Premium 7cm French Sandvik Stainless Pruning Knife with Boar Bristle Brush

The Opinel N°08 Mushroom Knife is a world-renowned, highly specialized foraging instrument masterfully engineered to elevate your wild mushroom hunting and field-to-table preparation. Belonging to Opinel's legendary outdoor activity portfolio, this premium pocket folder features a distinctively curved hawkbill blade crafted from high-purity Scandinavian Sandvik 12C27 stainless steel. The elegant crescent silhouette is specifically calibrated to slice cleanly through delicate mushroom stems with a single fluid pull-cut, preventing damage to the underground fungal mycelium. Outfitted with an aggressive serrated scraping spine to instantly strip away debris and an authentic boar bristle brush integrated into the base of the natural beechwood handle, this knife allows you to clean your chanterelles, porcini, or morels directly at the harvesting site. Complete with the patented dual-action Virobloc® twist-lock safety collar, this pocket companion is the definitive gold standard for passionate mycologists, forest foragers, and wilderness epicureans alike.

Best For Dedicated mushroom foragers, wild food gatherers, nature hikers, and culinary enthusiasts seeking a highly specialized, compact pocket knife optimized to slice, scrape, and dust clean wild mushrooms directly in the field.

Key Features

• Surgical Crescent Hawkbill Blade: The curved 7.2 cm blade mimics natural biological shapes, pulling effortlessly through fleshy mushroom stalks without crushing or bruising the delicate edible caps.

• Authentic Wild Boar Bristle Brush: Features genuine boar bristles mounted into the base of the timber frame, offering the perfect combination of firmness and flexibility to dust away dirt, pine needles, and soil from gills instantly.

• Aggressive Non-Cutting Scraping Spine: The reverse side of the stainless steel blade is precision-engineered with a localized serrated spine, allowing you to scrape away stubborn dirt or mud from root bases without dulling the main edge.

• Premium Sandvik 12C27 Stainless Steel: Forged from an elite Scandinavian alloy enriched with Carbon and Chromium, delivering remarkable structural purity, high stain defense against forest dampness, and an easily maintainable edge.

• Dual-Action Virobloc® Safety Ring: Features Opinel's legendary rotating safety ring collar, allowing you to completely **lock the blade open during field harvesting** or **secure it tightly closed** during pocket transport.

Specifications

• Model Series: Authentic N°08 Specialist Foraging & Outdoor Activity Fleet

• Blade Length: 7.2 cm (Crescent Foraging Profile)

• Handle Length: 8.9 cm (Excluding bristle extension)

• Overall Length: 20.3 cm (Full structural extension from tip to brush base)

• Blade Steel: Sandvik 12C27 Modified Stainless Alloy

• Handle Material: Natural Fine-Grained European Beech Wood

• Cleaning Appliance: Premium Genuine Wild Boar Bristles

• Safety Mechanism: Dual-Action Virobloc® Safety Twist Ring (Locks open and closed)

• Manufacturing Origin: Masterfully Crafted by Opinel in Chambéry, France

Ideal For (Foraging & Field Mycology Applications)

• Precise Wild Mushroom Foraging: Collecting wild chanterelles, porcini, pine mushrooms, and morels, slicing through stems at soil level cleanly to maintain optimal environmental sustainability.

• Field-Side Basket Prep & Cleaning: Scraping away gritty dirt columns using the serrated spine and brushing delicate gill cavities clean in the woods, ensuring your harvest is completely debris-free before it ever hits your kitchen basket.

• Intricate Horticultural & Garden Pruning: Executing delicate pull-cuts on small vines, deadheading flowers, harvesting backyard culinary herbs, and managing small greenhouse plant propagations.

• The Ultimate Gift for Nature Lovers: An exceptionally thoughtful, unique heirloom keepsake for bushcrafters, gourmet chefs, hikers, and outdoorsmen who celebrate the art of harvesting wild foods.

Pro Tip & Foraging Fleet Maintenance: The N°08 Mushroom Knife is built to handle humid, earthy field conditions, but simple post-forage maintenance is essential to preserve its specialized natural components. Never submerge the knife in water or wash it in an automatic dishwasher, as moisture will swell the beechwood frame and damage the genuine boar bristles. Simply wipe the stainless steel blade down with a warm, damp cloth after your trek and use your fingers to flick away any pine resin or dirt from the brush. Allow the brush to air dry completely face down. An occasional single drop of food-safe mineral oil applied to the pivot pin will keep the Virobloc safety ring spinning smoothly, ensuring your foraging knife remains in pristine condition for decades of seasonal harvests!

Oversized Item Delivery Options

Oversized, heavy, and structural goods ship via specialist freight. Freight is calculated at checkout from estimated packaged volumetric or physical weight. Carrier depot audits may adjust the rate — if the increase exceeds 10%, we will contact you before processing.

Available options include:

✔ Delivery to your closest depot for pickup — default method
✔ Direct delivery — requires an operational forklift on site unless Tailgate Delivery has been specifically requested and quoted (contact us — this cannot be selected at checkout)
✔ Tailgate hydraulic lift delivery — must be specifically requested; contact us for a quote (not available as a checkout option; extra fees apply; required if you do not have a forklift)
✔ Forklift loading at our warehouse (no extra charge if you arrange your own freight)
✔ Direct truck delivery (available in Victoria)

Important Notes:

• Shipping costs vary by location and method
• Any carton or consignment over 25–30kg (or over 200cm) must be palletised
• Without a specifically requested and paid Tailgate Delivery quote, palletised freight requires a forklift on site — otherwise the carrier will redirect to the nearest depot
• Bulky and oversized items cannot be delivered to a PO Box — provide a physical street address
• Failed deliveries, locked gates, unattended sites, or incorrect business/forklift declarations may incur carrier redelivery, demurrage, and restocking fees as set out in our Terms & Conditions

Business Delivery:

• Selecting a business/commercial delivery rate warrants that the address has an operational forklift and certified operator during business hours
• If the carrier cannot unload, the consignment may be redirected to a depot and secondary fees may apply
• Additional fees may apply for failed delivery attempts due to lack of appropriate unloading equipment

See our Terms & Conditions (Article 8) for full freight and delivery rules.

Important Note on Availability & Shipping

Our warehouse is a logistics hub, not a retail showroom. Listing a product online does not mean it is stored at our Thomastown warehouse — many lines ship from supplier hubs (split fulfilment may apply).

How lead times work:

• Product page ETA: The Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) / lead-time badge shown on the product page at checkout is the agreed delivery timeframe for that order under Australian Consumer Law.
• Metro baselines: Advertised ETAs apply to standard metropolitan zones. Regional and remote addresses may take longer and may attract surcharges.
• Peak seasons: Orders in March–May, August–October, EOFY (June), Black Friday/Cyber Monday (November), and Christmas/New Year (December–January) may automatically add a 2–4 week buffer beyond the product page ETA.
• Supplier-dependent / backordered items: If stock is delayed, we will notify you with a revised ETA. You then have 7 days to accept the new timeframe or cancel for a full refund.
• Adloheat: Custom-made products from Adloheat (Pakenham, VIC) may take 4–12 weeks depending on the order.

Full fulfilment, cancellation, and freight rules are in our Terms & Conditions.

Biosecurity & Interstate Shipping Restrictions

Due to strict state biosecurity regulations, we are unable to ship some products to certain states and territories:

• Potting Mixes cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA), the Northern Territory (NT), or Tasmania (TAS).
• Seeds cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA).

Orders placed for these items to restricted states will be cancelled and refunded. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the items being ordered can lawfully be delivered to their state or territory.