"rw" wrote in message
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riverman wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
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angler wrote:

I live next door (almost) two two guys that are amazing. The one guy is
a World champion utility knife maker, the other Swedish champion
utility knife maker.

Those aren't utility knives. They are works of art.



True, but they're also utility knives. I wear mine in my fishing vest and
use it all the time. Granted, I deliberately chose one of the simpler
designs, but its a real treat when folks look at it and say 'whoa, where
did you get THAT?' :-)

A utility knife is something that by definition is useful. No doubt those
knives could be useful, but you'd have to be nuts to actually use them. It
would be like hanging an original van Gogh in a Holiday Inn motel room.


True, there are quite a few knives there that I could only imagine an
afficianado having in his display case. But Carl Michael also makes some
lower-end knives that are very stylish and have an excellent blade. I can't
post on abpf, but if someone is willing to post it for me, I'll send a pic.

If you get up to one of the Swedish claves, you'll be astounded at the
selection of handmade, unique, collector's item knives those guys carry. Its
sort of a trademark thing.....you'll be sitting around the fire, and someone
will pull out a knife to slice a piece of pepperoni or something, and the
furriners will all gasp and someone will say 'whoa, nice knife!' Then
everyone will start pulling these museum pieces out of their vests and
pockets and nonchalantly show them around. Pretty much everyone carries a
Van Gogh.

--riverman
(and now I do, too g)