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i just found my nice knife again after it went AWOL weeks ago!! this is a major W, i've been sorely missing it doing random pruning type stuff around the yard
if you have a nice knife too, please show me. that's what Nice Knife Friday is all about
Four for the Price of One.
The Buck I haven't used yet, but have had for years. (Need to go camping)
The Kershaw cleavers sit on my desk and get the most use.
And the Leatherman Wingman is my EDC/work tool.
i'm kinda thinking of treating myself to some opinel kitchen knives or something, though a bunch of their stuff seems to be out of stock lately
i actually ordered the fun colored steak knives and the pocket knife was an impulse buy. they're nice knives!
Yesss. The Knife That Comes Back.
I always cary a #8 in my pocket and have for... probably a decade now??
One time I lost one and I eventually gave it up for Gone and bought a new one. a year or two later our friends found it in The Depths of their couch!! These knives Come Back and they're just,,, Good.
i'm not really a "carry a knife everywhere" sort of guy but i use mine in the garden a lot! my mom found it in a sweater pocket that i know for a fact i checked thoroughly... i have no idea what happened to make it rematerialize
ah, normal. gardening comes to a middle point it looks like https://www.opinel-usa.com/products/opinel-garden-knife-no8
yep this is the normal no.8 (well technically it's the "luxury" with the stainless blade and walnut handle). this is my more general purpose gardening knife. if i need to do something finicky i have a little titanium fold up knife that takes scalpel blades that i like
yeah, I've used my normal no. 8 as a root/weed knife in the garden and it holds up fine. The pointed tip would probably help with me not being able to see it, but it's Fine.
the brushes on the mushroom knife look cheap, I'd probably buy one if they weren't there :\ it's a nice shape.
only other thing i'm really looking for in the garden now tbh is a billhook. i want something big so when e.g. the lemon balm gets too big again i can cut all of it down at once instead of having to take my little 8.5cm knife and do it in parts
they're expensive and kinda rare new though (silky makes one and that seems to be about it). probably need to find one second hand somewhere
I unfortunately don't know where it went, but when I was a teen, I got this like, rainbow/titanium coated pivot knife that I liked a lot. Got it bc I was trying to get into whittling, although I'm not sure it was really good for that. Prolly considered tacky/cheap/whatever by people who're into knives, but I liked it bc it was mine.
idk i think opinions vary. the super eclectic anodizing and damascus and stuff aren't for me but whatever floats yer boat!! plus a knife you have is always better than one you don't
the best knife is the one that's on you/gets used, outside of all the others that may or may not be nice
What do you use the knife for in the garden? I use nice secateurs (Felco 9) all the time, and use scissors to cut herbs, but don’t really find much need for a knife.
i cut my herbs with this one generally; just cut some cibol (welsh onion) for lunch in fact :)
same for pruning herbaceous plants, root pruning when i get some root bound mess at a discount from the garden centre, etc.
