Everyone has one. A knife that the kids aren’t allowed to touch, a knife that Dad uses to carve the turkey, a knife that mom uses when she’s got touchy slicing to do. <\/p>\n
For me, that knife is a John Primble Hickory knife, hickory scales and carbon steel blade. <\/p>\n
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I don’t like stainless blades as well as carbon blades, for a couple of reasons, the most important being sharpness. Even high end stainless knives don’t take and keep an edge as well as a properly tempered carbon steel knife. You have to oil and clean them when you’re done using them, but it’s a small price to pay for a decent knife. <\/p>\n
I’ve had this knife for many years, and I only let a few people even touch it. It touches up very easily with a good steel, but if I’m gonna be doing a lot of cutting, like carving a roast or a turkey, I’ll sit with it on a white japanese waterstone for a little time, and it comes up shaving sharp in no time. Everytime I pick this knife up, I have a little shiver as I imagine what I’d have if I stopped paying attention for even an instant- when you carve with this it’s like using a lightsaber- you slice through the meat without effort and it cuts so cleanly the meat takes a few moments to realize it’s been cut and fall on the platter. It would take fingers off in no time, it would slice your palm to the gristle in nanoseconds. I don’t bother using it unless I’m 100% alert. <\/p>\n
I wonder if I should get a locking knife block?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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