I’ll play along
My name is Ed, and I am turning 30 this year. I am from Massachusetts originally, but I moved to the “live free or die” state, New Hampshire five years ago. I enjoy the out of doors, including pretending be a fisherman, and just started hunting a year ago. I have been into shooting for awhile, but got into hunting later than some. I wish I had gotten into hunting alot younger, it is my new favorite pastime. Playing the drums is another one of my many hobbies, but I have been out of it for awhile.
I have carried a knife of some sort on me at all times since about 12 years old. When my father gave me a small swiss army knock off knife, he told me I can carry it on me, if I promised never to take it out at school, and I never did. Back then it wasn’t as big of a deal, but can you imagine a kid having a real knife at school? Kids are getting expelled for a butter knife to spread jelly on bread. I was always amazed at my late uncle who was a butcher, and his ability to take a knife from an edge so bad, it wouldn’t cut air, to an edge that would shave the hair I didn’t have on my arm yet, but it also shaved the hair off his! My father is an average chef knife maintainer, as he worked in, and owned restaurants for about 25 years. He can hone a knife on a steel good enough for a great working kitchen edge.
I used cheap honing tools off the shelf and a steel to keep my knives kind of sharp. When I graduated from my vocational high school from the machine shop program, and started working in the trade, I started to acquire stones for polishing and deburring, I then started using them to stone my knives a little more than kind of sharp. Eventually I learned about the burr, and how it was a good thing!! I purchased an EP Apex a year ago, and love it, but discovered its main weakness – repeatability and the struggle associated with knives that do not have a large single ground surface, and small knives are really tough to do with that system. I have seen what the WEPS can do, and I purchased one, and it is currently on preorder. Now I will add another tool to my workbench, and I cannot wait for it to come in.
No children, yet but working on it. 🙂
I will put up a picture later.
