Friday, February 21, 2014
Meet Cherry, My pocket knife!
While at the beach, I reaquinted myself with "Cherry", my original OAR CARVER pocket knife (name for the color). Dang, when I picked her up it was like holdin hands with an ol' girlfriend - opps, my wife. O'l Cherry lead me from merely cuttin and scrapeing at the wood, to really "slicing and dicein" some real smooth cuts. But O'l Cherry wasn't always so sharp and smooth. When I first got her, she was a trade for a small Noah's Ark. A friend who was a genuine real sculptress, portrate artist, and a master wood carver wanted a Noah's Ark for her grand children. I tried to give her the Ark, but she insisted on paying. Thus I traded for a new OAR CARVER pocket knife. I guess one could say that this is where the love affair started. O'l Cherry and I did get off to a rocky start. I found out what a "factory edge" was. When Cherry first arrived, she would have served as a great butter spreader. I immediately boxed her up and sent her back to the vendor, for what was advertized as a "professional sharpening". She came back and I couldn't wait to whittle. Well, I suppose since Cherry was "professionally" sharpened; she was sharp. But we still did not "hit it off". Luckily this was real close to the Gathering of Wood Carvers (GOW) which I was scheduled to participate in. At the GOW I introduced Cherry to Knife maker John Dunkle. I told John to "make this knife carve". John did his magic (flattened and resharpened the blade), O'l Cherry did her thing, and the love affair began.
So who popped who's cherry?
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