There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
First, at a pretty nice steakhouse I was at celebrating my dad's bday, I tried to cut my ribeye with the Laguiole that was brought to the table. One touch of blade to beef confirmed my guess that the blade had been through many, many plate scrapes and industrial dishwasher cycles since the last time it had been sharpened. Without much of a second though, I flipped open the Lionsteel that was in my pocket and started slicing, much to the amusement of my tablemates.
I explained my reasoning; "the steer was already butchered once, no need to make it bleed again." Skeptical at first, I happily traded bites with a few others and I think I may have some new converts.
Over the weekend, I grabbed an apple to snack on. For the last 35 years, I would have gone straight hand-to-mouth, but this day I found myself reaching for the kitchen drawer and pulled out my new Tadafusa petty knife that I got from a local shop, Bernal Cutlery (http://dro.ps/bernalcutlery). I tried slicing the thinnest pieces I could on one side, then I just started messing around with cutting some wedges.
This was the result before I finished it off with my teeth. When did you first realize you had fallen down the rabbit hole of knives, or EDC generally?