Nate, your obvious joy at having this knife is my ample reward. My old man once told me that we should try to leave things a bit better as we pass by. Sometimes that means helping someone out. I know what it means to be stretched thin on finances, as I had to start all over once in my life after a mishap. And too many young people have no mentor or grandfather in their life. Especially one who shares a love of knives. The longer you hang around this forum, the more you will see a rare generosity that does not exist elsewhere. I have seen generosity on this forum to and by people who have never met, yet they consider themselves friends. I have been gifted knives by people I have never met. I have, in turn gifted out knives to people I have ever met. Mark Twain once wrote that it was a shame that one could not pick one's family as carefully as one would pick your friends. The people on this forum, should I ever meet them, I would not hesitate to call brother. Or sister, depending on gender. What better people to be generous with, than chosen family? And given our mutual obsession on knives, I can think of no other way to put it than Shakespeare's Henry the fifth; "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."
So, given that, what better way to pass on a knife than to a spiritual grandson?
Use it well, Nate.
Carl.
