Many times ago my friend Joel present me a knife. Here it is:
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Many travelers can envy to it. It cut pineaples in India, shreded frozen meat above the arctic circle, climbed to the source of the gold-carrying river on Taiwan, kut fruits in the Africa and cut up huge amount of fish in the many parts of western Eurasia. It very light and usefull, but it has one serious fault - the saw on the back. This saw is useful when I prepare fish, but in all other cases it makes a lot of unpleasantness. So I decided to change it to something more useful. The only issue is that new knife need to be the knife with "histoy" to be able replace my first one. I didn't want just to buy soulless item in the shop. And the best way to get new knife with history is to make it by myself. So I decided to do this. The blade was taken from Sweden - this is very famous fulltang made by Mora - laplander. It hase the lenght I like and is so durable. I took the accidentally found piece of wood and started work on handle. Unfortunately the wood was the Lapacho - so called iron wood. So I have spent a lot of time before get the result, but after 5 months I got the following:
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Will have a look on how it will behave in the future.