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I’ve had this image as my desk top and burning in my mind for a while, and the reason is this:
Before me sits one of the most beautiful images to be found on this internet campfire called the forums. This one portrait has slapped the face of all the wannabe jack pine savages, all the tough people who claim to really “use” their gear, and all those, at home sitting behind the comfort of computers who go into a bed perturbing about things such as broken Ipods and car insurance, and rolling an edge on a blade they won’t even cut things with because they have too many. In one quick picture, the reality rises: What we could consider “woods time” is hardly a trip to a playground. I speculate what a third world country native with a broken butcher knife for a survival tool would think about our heated talks with subjects ranging from bizarre edges and super steels to reducing large pieces of wood into smaller pieces and why.
Would this third world dweller, barely making in a week what we make in an hour, laugh until his head falls off at some of the animated discussions on the internet that we find ourselves raising cain about?
This man does not have the tub of knives we do, the human oil built up around the handle and the tattered coating on the choil illustrate the fact well. The silky rust on the edge of the knife reminds me of how I worry about details to much. Obviously this blade still cuts fine despite the oxidation, and hell, if he can survive on it, you can.
Ironically and oddly, there will probably not be someone on the forums with a knife as well used as this, and there may be a quiet reason for that.
Before me sits one of the most beautiful images to be found on this internet campfire called the forums. This one portrait has slapped the face of all the wannabe jack pine savages, all the tough people who claim to really “use” their gear, and all those, at home sitting behind the comfort of computers who go into a bed perturbing about things such as broken Ipods and car insurance, and rolling an edge on a blade they won’t even cut things with because they have too many. In one quick picture, the reality rises: What we could consider “woods time” is hardly a trip to a playground. I speculate what a third world country native with a broken butcher knife for a survival tool would think about our heated talks with subjects ranging from bizarre edges and super steels to reducing large pieces of wood into smaller pieces and why.
Would this third world dweller, barely making in a week what we make in an hour, laugh until his head falls off at some of the animated discussions on the internet that we find ourselves raising cain about?
This man does not have the tub of knives we do, the human oil built up around the handle and the tattered coating on the choil illustrate the fact well. The silky rust on the edge of the knife reminds me of how I worry about details to much. Obviously this blade still cuts fine despite the oxidation, and hell, if he can survive on it, you can.
Ironically and oddly, there will probably not be someone on the forums with a knife as well used as this, and there may be a quiet reason for that.
