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Hello,
we are back from France Atlantic coast. The land of Dolmen and Druids: Brittany.
After a week of being used in salty environment in various hands for a lot of different tasks, our Trailing Point Lil Temperance has been tested and approved by some of our friends, sailors and fishermen.
What they did appreciate is the stout, strong blade with its ability to be used a hook (the upswedge trailing point) but also to have a thin sharp point for delicate introspections into shells and various fishing/boat mechanisms.
Our first concern was rust and mechanical problems. We did not protect the blade with any solution but some butter (sand, dirt and salt were clean with a spit). and we rinse under fresh water it only at the end of the day. The knife did not catch any rust spots on the blade or on any visible parts inside the hande or on the clip.
Apart from tasks like scale/cleaning a fish, cutting various wet and slippy materials, and also kitchen and eating duties,
the Lil Temperance has been used to scratch various shells, detach tem from rocks and also to open a lot of oysters.
We were not able to ruin its blade satin finish. There is not a single mark of this week abuses on the temperance blade. That is really amazing. How is it possible?
Now the plain edge has been turned many times into a kind of serrated edge. That was a mess! But the knife was still able to cut even if it was not a razor anymore. Anyway on all the fishermen knives we could check (various "Laguiole", "Pradel" with or without locks even some cheap balisongs) their 440A blades were never as sharp as the Temperance was before and after its duty.
We were thinking the edge chipped but mostly it bends so with a oil stone we were able to sharp the Temperance back to plain and razor edge with little efforts. We used also a leatherman PSII to sharp the blade. In 5 minutes the edge was straight (understand less serrated) and dangerously sharp. After some strops on leather it was a razor.
In these experience, the Lil Temperance gave us full satisfacton and it has been hard to take it back with us away from the shore. In this case we've been selfish (and in "selfish" there is "fish"!). Now for a french fisherman (at least the one we know), it would be an expensive tool he could not afford to buy but some birthdays are coming and now we know what gift to offer !
cheers,
JM
we are back from France Atlantic coast. The land of Dolmen and Druids: Brittany.
After a week of being used in salty environment in various hands for a lot of different tasks, our Trailing Point Lil Temperance has been tested and approved by some of our friends, sailors and fishermen.
What they did appreciate is the stout, strong blade with its ability to be used a hook (the upswedge trailing point) but also to have a thin sharp point for delicate introspections into shells and various fishing/boat mechanisms.
Our first concern was rust and mechanical problems. We did not protect the blade with any solution but some butter (sand, dirt and salt were clean with a spit). and we rinse under fresh water it only at the end of the day. The knife did not catch any rust spots on the blade or on any visible parts inside the hande or on the clip.
Apart from tasks like scale/cleaning a fish, cutting various wet and slippy materials, and also kitchen and eating duties,
the Lil Temperance has been used to scratch various shells, detach tem from rocks and also to open a lot of oysters.
We were not able to ruin its blade satin finish. There is not a single mark of this week abuses on the temperance blade. That is really amazing. How is it possible?
Now the plain edge has been turned many times into a kind of serrated edge. That was a mess! But the knife was still able to cut even if it was not a razor anymore. Anyway on all the fishermen knives we could check (various "Laguiole", "Pradel" with or without locks even some cheap balisongs) their 440A blades were never as sharp as the Temperance was before and after its duty.
We were thinking the edge chipped but mostly it bends so with a oil stone we were able to sharp the Temperance back to plain and razor edge with little efforts. We used also a leatherman PSII to sharp the blade. In 5 minutes the edge was straight (understand less serrated) and dangerously sharp. After some strops on leather it was a razor.
In these experience, the Lil Temperance gave us full satisfacton and it has been hard to take it back with us away from the shore. In this case we've been selfish (and in "selfish" there is "fish"!). Now for a french fisherman (at least the one we know), it would be an expensive tool he could not afford to buy but some birthdays are coming and now we know what gift to offer !
cheers,
JM
