Old age ain't for the faint of heart.
Someone told me that many years ago and it was the truth. Age is the greatest thief known to man, and he sneaks in and veeeeery slowly steals what make you, what is you. I guess the fact that we live our lives in stages helps to understand the changes in taste we go though. Like as kids we love soda pop. Then as young men we love our beer. Then we learn to appreciate the taste of a smooth whiskey.
I guess now I'm in the red giant stage of life. My taste in some things has changed, but something I always liked have increased in importance. Like friction folders. I always liked them, and appreciated the age old simplicity of a using tool that hasn't changed in hundreds of years. In the red giant stage of life, I now love and use almost exclusively old timey stuff like revolvers, lever action rifles and break open shotguns. And Opinel's, Sardinian Resolza's, and Japanese Higonokami's seemed to go in a pocket more and more as the thief of time worked on me.
I find some comfort in the steady smooth pull of the friction folder, no matter if an Opinel or Resolza or higonakami. I figure of those Sardinian and French peasants and Japanese workers all got by with a simple friction folder, then this old retired guy in Texas can. So far in my almost 40 year love/hate relationship with Opinels, used mostly as a friction folder ignoring the locking ring, I've still got all my fingers. And the ten years or so since Fausto gifted me the resolza, its been a very trouble free relationship with no mishaps. Lots of good cutting though, and thats the bottom line of any knife. Does it cut like the dickens?
I guess if friction folders have been good for working peasants, then a retired gentleman of leisure who goes fishing a lot is well equipped for slicing and dicing of bait and lunch. Wiping off the blade after each job of course! Besides, the granddaughter loves the Samurai fisherman act when I use the Higonokami.
Anyone else use friction folders?
Someone told me that many years ago and it was the truth. Age is the greatest thief known to man, and he sneaks in and veeeeery slowly steals what make you, what is you. I guess the fact that we live our lives in stages helps to understand the changes in taste we go though. Like as kids we love soda pop. Then as young men we love our beer. Then we learn to appreciate the taste of a smooth whiskey.
I guess now I'm in the red giant stage of life. My taste in some things has changed, but something I always liked have increased in importance. Like friction folders. I always liked them, and appreciated the age old simplicity of a using tool that hasn't changed in hundreds of years. In the red giant stage of life, I now love and use almost exclusively old timey stuff like revolvers, lever action rifles and break open shotguns. And Opinel's, Sardinian Resolza's, and Japanese Higonokami's seemed to go in a pocket more and more as the thief of time worked on me.
I find some comfort in the steady smooth pull of the friction folder, no matter if an Opinel or Resolza or higonakami. I figure of those Sardinian and French peasants and Japanese workers all got by with a simple friction folder, then this old retired guy in Texas can. So far in my almost 40 year love/hate relationship with Opinels, used mostly as a friction folder ignoring the locking ring, I've still got all my fingers. And the ten years or so since Fausto gifted me the resolza, its been a very trouble free relationship with no mishaps. Lots of good cutting though, and thats the bottom line of any knife. Does it cut like the dickens?
I guess if friction folders have been good for working peasants, then a retired gentleman of leisure who goes fishing a lot is well equipped for slicing and dicing of bait and lunch. Wiping off the blade after each job of course! Besides, the granddaughter loves the Samurai fisherman act when I use the Higonokami.
Anyone else use friction folders?
