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Maserin Gourmet 380 Burl Wood Folding Knife
reswright
3850
Jun 24, 2019
So this is pretty much a folding cheese knife, not a pocket knife.
Why isn't it primarily meant to be a pocket knife? The choice of steel makes sense for a knife used around food, but not as much for a pocket knife. It doesn't have a clip. So there's two strikes against this being a typical pocket knife. Reading the ad copy, it's plain that they see a culinary purpose, it's not out of place sitting next to blah blah, it's a carbon steel very similar to what big name knife makers use in their kitchen knives, and not common at all in a folder. A folding cheese knife. Honestly I think that's a bit of a hand shandy.
Why have a folding knife to cut cheese? Why do you want to have to open and close it, why do you want to have to clean the inside of it, why do you want to have to maintain the works? Why do you want any surfaces that could retain food residue, and hence bacteria? I'll help you with this answer: you don't. You just want to cut cheese, maybe some summer sausage, maybe an apple with it. Mostly cheese. This is a kitchen based activity for most people. You really gotta ask yourself -- are you different from that? Are you a snack survivalist? Do you carry around the cheese and the cutting board and the crackers in your pocket as well, just in case you gotta go full-on snacking without warning? Maybe some pepperoni too? Must you be prepared, at a moment's notice, to provide tactical antipasti for your superior officers in the Special Snack Service?
I mean if that's definitely you, my mighty Cheese and Cracker Commando friend, then you have found your knife and this is the beginning of a beautiful chapter in your life, entitled "It All Comes Together".
I think everyone else should prolly take the $100 and go look at kitchen knives and other implements with fixed handles, or if they're more about the pocket knife aspect, go get one with a steel meant for pocket knives, and a clip to boot.
I like the burl. I like that Maserin works with burled wood where everyone else is messing around with variations on damascus. I think one day I'm going to pick a Maserin up and buy it. Not today, not this knife.
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Axeguy
1372
Jun 26, 2019
reswrightI have some slender French folding fruit knives. They are traditionally used in picnic baskets, where fixed blades might pose more risk. I think this is a similar idea but for a classier picnic basket. People don't seem to picnic much on this side of the Atlantic these days but it still seems alive and well in France and Italy, if I recall correctly. Cheers for picnic basket overkill!
reswright
3850
Jun 26, 2019
AxeguyCould be. France and Italy have food culture that we lack in the US -- lots of places do. You have to be at a really bougie market in America to see all the fresh, organic, locally farmed options that they can take for granted in large parts of Europe. They appreciate it, so they protect it, so they get to enjoy it, poor or rich. Here you gotta be made out of money to eat like a locavore, and everyone's too worried about tick borne illnesses to go someplace wild and sit down in the grass and spread out some lunch. Another way to say this is that I'd expect the average number of picnics attended by someone holding one of these knives, purchased from Drop in the US, to be significantly less than 1. Maybe the international Drop buyers will pick up the slack; they'll pretty much have to.
reswright
3850
Jun 26, 2019
reswrightNevermind. The world's going mad, you all might as well go mad with it and start buying folding food knives.
Emerson is making a folding steak knife.
https://knifenews.com/emerson-drops-new-folding-steak-knife/
Et tu, Ernest? The maker of the Wave, now the maker of - this?
Well, I guess if you're rugged enough to eat steak in the wilderness, but you're still worried you might accidently cut someone if you carried a regular steak knife with you, he has heard your call. Before you'd be easy prey. Now? The wolves might start to circle you but then they'll stop and one of them will go 'holy shit call it all off, dude has an Emerson.' and after a while, duly impressed with your financial prowess and kinda wishing they could hang out with you, but knowing they just aren't cool enough, they will slink off and away, hoping to find some poor bastard who bought a Maserin cheese knife instead.
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Axeguy
1372
Jun 26, 2019
reswrightNo more picnics…? Wolves know Emerson…? A Champagne sabre in every EDC rotation…? Big Macs in The White House…? In these dark times—oh planet of my birth—I know ye not!
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