In Praise of My Pocket Knife - 05/04/09
It's nothing fancy. Not a custom job, or anything. It's a plain Jane Gerber lightweight lock blade. I've had it on me almost literally every day for nearly the last 25 years now. I had no idea when I bought it back then that it would come in so handy on nearly a daily basis. Hardly a day goes by, in fact, when I don't use it on one cutting task or other, and it's as sharp today as the day I bought it. Still mechanically 100%, too. Nine times out of ten, when it occasionally loses some cutting power, all it needs is a few swipes on a steel. When that will no longer quite do the trick, it just takes a few strokes on an oil stone to bring it back to razor sharpness. Truly an amazing thing. Quite possibly my most useful acquisition to date.