So I just finished another session with my 5 year old daughter teaching her to sharpen freehand. I have to admit she sharpens better than most grown men. It surprises me how fast she is learning and how fast muscle memory kicks in for her. I'm teaching her on one of those 1k red bricks you get from cktg and she is already getting edges that cut hair. Not quite shaving sharp but close. How many others here have taught your kid's how to sharpen knives?
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Teaching the next generation
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Not yet. Six and four years of age. Will wait until the eldest is eight or so. Was showing the youngest how to relay a knife, to always pinch the spine and forward the handle towards the recipient. So he proceeds to wrap his entire hand around the blade and hands me the knife. Fortunately for the both of us, the edge was dulled. No harm, no foul. But I am waiting just a bit longer...
Mine hasn't done anything like that. She has seen me knick myself a couple times and is pretty good about not putting fingers on the edge. My wife turns white every time I pull the stones out because she is convinced our daughter is too young. I just figure if I watch her and teach her right it will all be good. By the time I was five I had a pocket knife with me everywhere I went. Put a point on every stick I came across from then until I was probably 13. I don't let her carry a knife yet tho. Plan on getting her one of those round tip moras or a mora eldris and I will round the tip off
its amazing how fast kids can learn. mine are teens, but still pick up on things they want to pick up on very quickly.
little interest in knives, and none in sharpening, but the oldest has taken an interest in outdoors and camping, edibles, and nature. suprises me everytime she recalls something we haven't discussed, or things she picks up in her own reading that we haven't covered yet.
little interest in knives, and none in sharpening, but the oldest has taken an interest in outdoors and camping, edibles, and nature. suprises me everytime she recalls something we haven't discussed, or things she picks up in her own reading that we haven't covered yet.