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Hiroaki Ohta Friction folder from CK

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Another look at the 29. Photo courtesy of Knives Ship Free

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My Great Eastern Cutlery 62 Easy Pocket Congress in Red Jigged Bone, and the 29 Stockyard Whittler in Autumn Jigged Bone. Outstanding examples of the traditional cutlers’ art. These two are my every day knives soon to be ...

In that sense I agree. I had old slip joints when I was young (I will be 78 in a couple of months) and was quite happy with them. The Navy introduced me to small fixed blades as an actual work and safety tool whilst working deck sea detail or replenishment evolutions. Then in the early 70s I bought ...

I like choils. They provide more security and control and the few fractions of an inch you have to give up on the edge is insignificant in comparison.

Thanks for those replies. I also think that Watu is so specific and produced as small batch, that it won't be counterfeited.

Thanks all for taking time to answer and thx for picture Pstone. Definitely the fact that your bug seems to be not as defined as others, tends to confirm my impression and ...

Good choices. The first of many I am afraid to tell you. :D

Welcome to the forum. Good to have you here.

I don’t think so. The Respect is a tribute to the iconic Bowie knife. By all accounts the original was a large butcher type knife. No one today knows what it actually looked like but knives that were made during and right after that time all have the iconic big clip blade. Trying to make a mini ...

Jurphaas wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:32 am

Thanks for taking the intiative Michael. A great post and so many opinions. A joy to read and think of. Top!!!!

Thank you sir!

I merely started it. You all took it away so thanks to everyone!

It's interesting to bring Kuhn into this.

IMO, the idea of a paradigm shift can't work when we're talking about a tool. It goes the other way around: tools are artifacts of paradigms.

That is, the closest thing we've seen to a paradigm shift in the knife industry is the shift from knives as ...

VooDooChild wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:21 am

Einstein was educated in math and physics. Just because his job wasnt in a position in those fields, doesnt mean his research was outside of those fields. He didnt come up with relativity theory by studying poetry.

I don’t get your point. Can you please clarify?

Pakkawood is supposed to be very stable stuff. I haven't noticed any changes on my delica or dragonfly, and I live in a very humid area. It looks and feels as nice as it did on day one, imo.


Excellent. Thanks for the quick reply!


Do you perform any regular proactive maintenance? Mineral ...

I like the Lil’ Native far better. I love the compression lock and hand no issues with it on the Lil’ Native. Just takes a bit of getting used to. I also prefer the wire clip.

The core definition of “paradigm”. Not from a dictionary but from the man who discovered it:

“For well-integrated members of a particular discipline, its paradigm is so convincing that it normally renders even the possibility of alternatives unconvincing and counter-intuitive. Such a paradigm is ...

It is obvious that my use of “innovation” was way too broad. Perhaps, “revolutionary change” is better.

As detailed in Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions all major scientific revolutions (plate tectonics, physics, cosmology, chemistry, etc,) are created by people who work ...

GarageBoy wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 27, 2020 9:14 am

There's plenty of makers who revisit traditional designs with modern materials when you're aiming for "going back to a simpler time" - many of our ancestors would have loved one hand open and close

True. But what’s your point?

Implying better, safer transport.