Liogier was founded in 1920 by Marcellin Liogier. A know-how that was then transmitted from generation to generation. The Liogier-Allary company based in Saint-Didier-en-Velay has been designing and manufacturing hand-stitched wood rasps and rifflers for 4 generations. These tools of excellence are recognized worldwide for the stone and wood carving trades.
Liogier-Allary's customers are sculptors, instrument makers, cabinet makers, but also form makers, who carve blocks of wood to make hat forms... And their needs are specific. For them, Liogier-Allary therefore manufactures, to order, carving tools in wood or stone, entirely made in Haute-Loire, from the forge to the final heat treatment. It all starts with the choice of steel, according to very precise specifications. Then this is where the craftsmanship kicks in…
A company that does not lack bite
The most delicate and longest intervention, which is the basis of all the company's know-how, is the hand stitching. In other words, raising the teeth manually, using a punch and a hammer. The teeth are thus finer, sharper… In all, a file contains thousands of teeth that 4 Liogier-Allary employees have learned to raise one by one. On some parts, more than 44000 hammer blows are necessary.
With experience, the gesture becomes fast, precise, regular... Despite everything, depending on the size of the rasp and that of its teeth, it sometimes takes up to 6 hours of work workers to complete a tool. And this is the uniqueness of the Liogier-Allary company. Because the pricking by hand gives the grater all its bite, its aggressiveness, but also a certain comfort of use. The finish of the tool is thus incomparable.
This is why the tools of the Altiliger company cross borders to join the hands of Australian, English, American, Austrian, but also German sculptors... "The online sales allows us to sell our tools worldwide, on all continents “, underlines the manager, Yves Tardy. For what ? Because companies with such know-how are rare. “There are two of us working in wood in France, one here, the other in Albi. And there are, for example, none in the USA. Which explains why we have them as customers. »
The manufacture of the tool ends with the heat treatment, which will give rasps and rifflers the hardness and resistance wear that will make these hand-stitched tools products close to perfection.
A wide range of tools, from sculpture to surgery
Over the past thirty years, "we have diversified by also working for the medical sector", specifies Yves Tardy. Liogier-Allary therefore also stands out in the creation of stainless steel parts used to house the prosthesis inside a femur, a tibia or a hip. We are talking about femoral rasps for hip prosthesis.
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