I was going to add to an old knife thread but at 22 pages it was already too long.
I like to play with knives. I took up formal training at 12 years old (1964) with classical Spanish fencing.
In 2002 I took up Iaido, learning to walk and cut at the same time took a few years.
Pocket knives are too useful to ever be without, I usually carry a tiny splinter knife, a stupid sharp slicer in case I have to do a tracheotomy, and a larger stout knife for rope and boxes.
Swords are just fun, a mat cutting katana was used to clear two acres of shrubberies. Some folks actually got angry for my use of a $1700 katana for clearing brush, but now I have the most accurate as well as the most powerful cut in the dojo. A thousand hours of actual cutting was the only practical way to learn. A three inch Birch in a single stroke is my personal best.
Nothing against guns, I carried for decades before giving them up. I no longer even own a firearm.
But knives, it is almost embarrassing the way I light up when discussing the finer points of good steel.
I like to play with knives. I took up formal training at 12 years old (1964) with classical Spanish fencing.
In 2002 I took up Iaido, learning to walk and cut at the same time took a few years.
Pocket knives are too useful to ever be without, I usually carry a tiny splinter knife, a stupid sharp slicer in case I have to do a tracheotomy, and a larger stout knife for rope and boxes.
Swords are just fun, a mat cutting katana was used to clear two acres of shrubberies. Some folks actually got angry for my use of a $1700 katana for clearing brush, but now I have the most accurate as well as the most powerful cut in the dojo. A thousand hours of actual cutting was the only practical way to learn. A three inch Birch in a single stroke is my personal best.
Nothing against guns, I carried for decades before giving them up. I no longer even own a firearm.
But knives, it is almost embarrassing the way I light up when discussing the finer points of good steel.
