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Youll know it has really hit the fan when folks here have to sell off their extra knives and make do with just one or two.
My grandfather a product of the great depression, if ever there was one - always owned just one pocketknife. He carried it always and genuinely counted on it. A carpenter and glass man by trade, he'd sharpen and re-sharpen those two blades for years and years until they were damn near gone. Then, when one or both broke (or if, God forbid, he lost the knife), he'd head down to Sears or to the local hardware store to buy another one. Two-blade jacks were his only daily carry. Never fancy, but never cheap either. Always built tough. When he went hunting or fishing, he'd pack up and tote along a few of the family's old Dexter carbon steel kitchen knives and a stone to help with the cleaning and butchering; no fancy $300 hunting knives for him.
How many of us are in the luxuried position of owning several dozen knives and carrying three or four or more at a time? It occurs to me that, in this time of national (and international) sacrifice, we may enter an economic era where many of us will not have the luxury of walking around with a veritable cutlery store in our pockets. Anti-knife fervor might not be the only reason we'll have fewer knives. Thoughts?
My grandfather a product of the great depression, if ever there was one - always owned just one pocketknife. He carried it always and genuinely counted on it. A carpenter and glass man by trade, he'd sharpen and re-sharpen those two blades for years and years until they were damn near gone. Then, when one or both broke (or if, God forbid, he lost the knife), he'd head down to Sears or to the local hardware store to buy another one. Two-blade jacks were his only daily carry. Never fancy, but never cheap either. Always built tough. When he went hunting or fishing, he'd pack up and tote along a few of the family's old Dexter carbon steel kitchen knives and a stone to help with the cleaning and butchering; no fancy $300 hunting knives for him.
How many of us are in the luxuried position of owning several dozen knives and carrying three or four or more at a time? It occurs to me that, in this time of national (and international) sacrifice, we may enter an economic era where many of us will not have the luxury of walking around with a veritable cutlery store in our pockets. Anti-knife fervor might not be the only reason we'll have fewer knives. Thoughts?
