I spent the morning going through this thread. I never even looked at the General Knife Discussion sub-forum until recently, and realized I’ve been missing out on some good discussions. But your thread is a must read for anyone. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone on BF,yet, that uses knives as much as you do on a regular basis.
Some of your posts you were talking about detasseling the corn. I grew up in a small farming town in rural Wisconsin, working on farms from the time I was 12 until I left for the Marine Corps. A local seed company would hire local kids to walk the fields and detassel corn. It was during a hot and humid time of the year. Your arms would end up with tiny little cuts all over, sometimes even catching one across the lip, which felt great when a little sweat got in it. I’m sure they probably have machines for that now days. But we couldn’t use knives, had to just rapidly walk along and pull off the tops as fast as you could.
Curious if your son has an accumulation of knives he uses, or just what you have on hand for him to borrow.
I thoroughly enjoyed the thread and hope you keep it going.
