Speaking of knives... |
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For myself, I am attempting to make the knife a work of art, but the best feeling I have, when my work fulfills its role as a practical tool and is used in real setting. It is my pride to manufacture knives beautiful in form and practical, sturdy tool in service. My approach to every knife is idividual and each piece is original in itself. After selecting the blade material and its shape, I am trying to find harmonizing material for handle, butt-cap and hand-guard and design eventual decoration. Construction method is then selected for the best fit. Final touch is making of appropriate sheath. I am convinced that this approach and passion is seen in the final piece and the individual soul of each of my works can be felt by the man using it. The life of my knives is long under usual circumstances, use and care and I guarantee life-long warranty to all my pieces (by life- long I mean my own life). In regard of a need to carry a knife on daily basis I am offering here a little story. Myself, I am hauling a middle-sized knife with me nearly always. And it did pay out!!! I have been working as master printer for some 20 years and it has become a sort of routine work. Nothing to surprise, one would think. But still...one momentous absent-mindedness and all my long hair in a braid were suddenly pulled into the press machine. I was alone, in the middle of the night. I struggled to pull my hair out against the machine, what could take a minute or so of a partial win and loose on both sides, but the engine was slowly getting the best of me. Finally, in a lucky brainwave, I grabbed my knife that I am usually using to cut a piece of sausage for a snack and cut off the hair. Smack and yum-yum, said the machine. If I didn´t have the knife with me then, you wouldn´t be reading this line. |
Knife is a unique thing, affection to it is individual to every man. A hard-working tool for some, for others it might represent a fashionable set-off or means of personal protection worn at any circumstances.