The Opinel No.08 Padouk is Opinel's classic No.08 folding knife with a varnished padouk handle and a hand-polished stainless blade, packed in a gift box.

Padouk is a dense, fine-grained African hardwood that runs from purple-brown to pink with purple veins, and it swells less than other woods when it gets wet. That makes this a good knife for fishing, hunting and humid weather, and a good-looking one to give. The 8.5 cm (about 3-3/8 in) blade is polished to a mirror finish and, being stainless, needs no special care in ordinary use. The Virobloc safety ring locks the blade open for use or closed for carrying.

Joseph Opinel began making his folding knives in Savoie, in the French Alps, in 1890, as a simple knife for working people. By 1909 he had registered the crowned hand as his trademark, and in 1955 Marcel Opinel invented the Virobloc safety ring. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has exhibited the Opinel as a design masterpiece, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London chose it for an exhibit in 1985.