I'll drop in my $.02 here was well. My wife is pretty awesome with my knives. I kinda got the "look" when I started to make them, but now she's curious to see what I've done. I use her as a sounding board a lot - "What do you think of this?, etc" She's pretty good about giving me feedback on my knives and my sheaths. Now, on the flip side of this, is that she will occasionally ask me to make some leather thing for her or other little things and will ask to have it pretty quick, but then in return, I get some neat requests for stuff as well (including a few sales 
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One thing she does not do, is cook. There are only two of us (kids are out of the house now) and I love cooking, and she is more than willing to let me do this One of the things she does is when she's gardening and needs to dig, she will grab just any knife out of the kitchen drawer, or what ever edged thing is close and go at it. She one day grabbed one of my Darrel Ralph TC4's (file worked, mosaic pins, bead blast taken off to satin, cocobolo handle) and dug in the garden with it. Credit to Darrel on HT - it lived. So....a week later she got her 01 hunter to do as she wished
When I get a new folder, she's pretty cool with it. Considering how many folders, fixed blades, and shop toys I have I think I'm pretty fortunate, though, somtimes, in the back of mind, I can't help thinking that she never will forgive me for dropping $500 US on that pool cue......(that was 3 years ago!!) And then, of course, there was that time when I was just learning to fly fish, and decided after a year that I deserved an Orvis to fish the Bow River. Comment I got was - You spent how much on the fly rod? $375!!! So...you spent $375 on a fly that probably catches nothing. Doesn't your $50 one catch nothing just as well!! Reality can be really ugly that way sometimes
- gord
) One thing she does not do, is cook. There are only two of us (kids are out of the house now) and I love cooking, and she is more than willing to let me do this
One of the things she does is when she's gardening and needs to dig, she will grab just any knife out of the kitchen drawer, or what ever edged thing is close and go at it. She one day grabbed one of my Darrel Ralph TC4's (file worked, mosaic pins, bead blast taken off to satin, cocobolo handle) and dug in the garden with it. Credit to Darrel on HT - it lived. So....a week later she got her 01 hunter to do as she wished When I get a new folder, she's pretty cool with it. Considering how many folders, fixed blades, and shop toys I have I think I'm pretty fortunate, though, somtimes, in the back of mind, I can't help thinking that she never will forgive me for dropping $500 US on that pool cue......(that was 3 years ago!!) And then, of course, there was that time when I was just learning to fly fish, and decided after a year that I deserved an Orvis to fish the Bow River. Comment I got was - You spent how much on the fly rod? $375!!! So...you spent $375 on a fly that probably catches nothing. Doesn't your $50 one catch nothing just as well!! Reality can be really ugly that way sometimes
- gord
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I wont go into detail about which ones I use for what and why I like them because that would take too much time and probably bore the poor readers (most men dont have a very long attention span) 
If you have time, of course.
and the sound of a blade on a stone has the same effect as fingernails on a chalk board for her 
