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From: goodsoldierschweik@invalid.com
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:13:57 -0700 (PDT), rigger wrote:
>On Jul 1, 8:51 am, greylock wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:17:54 +0700, Schweik
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>> >On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:02:45 -0500, greylock
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>> >>On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:04:07 -0700 (PDT), rigger
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>> >>>On Jun 28, 7:35 pm, greylock wrote:
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>> >>>For the car I bought a S&W with a glass breaker and a serrated blade
>> >>>with a seatbelt cutter. It's real loose and the liner lock doesn't
>> >>>look
>> >>>all that great but it was cheap, $5- $10, and good enough.
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>> >>>dennis
>> >>>in nca
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>> >>My nephew bought one - a rather large folder - and used it for a "work
>> >>knife". It held up about 6 or 7 months, which is actually a little
>> >>better than average for him (he is a heavy construction electrician).
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>> >>That would be roughly equivalent to the Buck knives he uses - and was
>> >>a good bit cheaper.
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>> >Perhaps it is old age and forgetfulness, but it seems that years ago
>> >one bought a pocket knife and eventually lost the fool thing, but I
>> >never remember anyone saying that "well I wore it out".
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>> >Is this an indication that knives are of lower quality today? Of just
>> >that we remember only the good things about the "good old days"?
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>> >Cheers,
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>> >Schweik
>> >(goodsoldierschweikatgmail)
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>> I certainly can't speak for everyone - but I was raised to be
>> considerably more careful with my pocket knives.
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>> My nephew does things with his knives I would not do with a "good"
>> knife.
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>> But the relative cost of "a knife" (as opposed to a "good" knife) is
>> much lower than it used to be in relative terms.
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>> I actually DO still have all of the knives I have bought through the
>> years with the exception of the ones lost. He runs through what I
>> would generally call medium quality knives at a fairly predictable
>> rate when he is working. What dies is nearly always that they get
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>"My nephew does things with his knives I would not do with a "good"
>knife."
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>It may be because, working with a knife, you tend to think of the
>the word "tool" instead of "knife" at times, depending on what
>you need at the moment. My work knives always took a beat-
>ing (usually Case) and I never developed an attachment to any
>of them. A lot of workers would sharpen with the nearest item
>at hand: Sandpaper, file, sidewalk....... You get the idea.
>
>The right tool for the right job. Even today my "safe queens" only
>number 2: A William Henry and an original Buck Survival Knife
>(although why I keep the last is beyond me).
>
>dennis
>in nca
I suppose that there are two things here. Every man, or boy, used to
carry a pocket knife, which one became sort of attached to, and was
used for such mundane tasks as cutting string, whittling sticks,
making tooth picks and other day to day tasks. Secondly there might be
a "work knife" which was in the tool box and might be used to pare the
horse's hoofs, or carve the insulation off #10 wires.
One became "attached" to one's pocket knife but not, as you say, the
work knife.
As for sharpening, I've sharpened a knife on everything imaginable.
Odd rocks, the concrete steps to the porch, a sandstone, treadle
powered "grinding wheel", proper "sharpening stones", but one thing
never worked for me was stropping the blade on the palm of my hand as
the movie bad Man did in the Saturday afternoon pictures.
Cheers,
Schweik
(goodsoldierschweikatgmail)
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