I went to my sister and brother in laws house Sunday with my little brother, to skin a deer he had gotten with his compound bow. I took my Gossman Kephart EDC, my brother in law used his Gossman PSK I gave him a couple years ago, and my little brother worked off both of our knives. My little brother brought a Mora that he found, that I had left on my fathers boat as a bait knife, a nice old traditional piece with wood scales and a guard. It had gotten dull as anything, and I could tell my little brother wanted a good fixed blade of his own. I gave him one of my old Western fixed blades, a 36 maybe, that my father had given me, that he found. My little brother carried that all over the place in my fathers woods.
My brother in law told me he didn't like how his knife stained, I told him that the steel was O1 and a tool steel, and that's what it does, and told him to put a patina on it. He said he likes his knives shiny, and asked me to take it to Scott to get it cleaned up. I will do that, but now I feel the urge to get him a stainless blade from Scott, as well as the urge to get my little brother a Gossman, either PSK or UNK. This is what is commonly referred to as backfiring, when you try to create knife nuts!
