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Thomas,

Your points are very well made. My own background is mostly what you would consider city people. However, there are two things in my background I consider non city. I spent two summers at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School ten miles off the Maine coast, one as a student, and one as an Assistant Watch Officer. Back then, Outward Bound was a twenty six day survival course originally set up for the Welsh merchant marine in World War II. The training included seventy two hours alone on an island with only the food I found.

The second life experience was much of a thirty five year career as a rural telephone man working alone.

Neither of these experiences were as rugged as your earlier life, however, they gave me a taste of non city life and an appreciation of non city life skills.

My favorite sharpening book was written by the late Leonard Lee. He grew up on a small family farm in Saskatuwan, Canada, and knew logging with axes intimately. His book reflects that knowledge.

I believe there are city people who want to expand their life knowledge to more back to nature experience. I count myself among them. I hope this forum will be a source of knowledge and inspiration for all interested folk, even city people.

Keep posting.

Ken

Ken,

There is nothing wrong with city people

Knifes and edges has allways been developed to different purpouses, that is why we have hunting knifes and razors - and thousends other different knifes.

My point is not against city people - it is more about forums where city people talk about how good there 40 degree, razor sharp Bowies, work outdoors.... No outdoor people agree with that description bexouse it will not work at all for them.

Internet is dull of videos that shows how people made their knifes so sharp that they can shave with it. What they really have done is thatvthethat have change the purpouse of the knife. A good knife have been change to a razor - and it is not a good knife any more, it is a razor instead.

My point is that knifes develops out of use, and that have allways been like that. City people develop knifes, and edges, that works for the life in yhe city. That is perfectly ok - and also necesarry. in the same time, traditional knifes so not change becouse they are often veey old.

Do you have a ordinary cheep Mora knife? Look at the blade design. That design is about 2-2500 years old. Millions of people during have use that blade design - and they was real knife users. It is a perfect design - for outdoor people. the vikings use that blade design for their beltknifes! But - it is a design used in Scansinavia, with our climate, our sorts of wood, our games and our fish. It works perfect here - but not in Sebiria or in India. They use other blade design - and that design work perfect for them.

What I se today more and more are knifes that se are designed by deskhunters, people that never have used a knife. Their knifes looks good, exelent design, beutiful knifes - but more or less crap to use outdoors - and also in citys. But people by them becouse they look beutiful - and that is why they are designed as they are...

Thomas