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I’m not a knife fetishist or anything, but a weird number of my favorite household items are edged things. I grabbed a Global 12” chef’s knife after reading ab
by Eric_WVGG 5y ago
I’m not a knife fetishist or anything, but a weird number of my favorite household items are edged things.
I grabbed a Global 12” chef’s knife after reading about it in Kitchen Confidential twenty-ish years ago, reminded of its superiority whenever I’m in a friend’s kitchen. I am sad to admit that IKEA makes a very decent clone, though.
An old nemesis gave me a Benchmade serrated knife with this miraculous spring-button release, absolute joy to handle.
I used to tie fishing flies in Montana as a kid; fly-tying scissors are fantastically sharp and useful for all kinds of micro projects. I often use them for extracting slivers that tweezers can’t reach. For macro work, nothing beats a pair of sewing shears; get a decent set and you’ll never touch a standard office or school scissor ever again.
Oxo scissors for the kitchen, though — the blades comes apart so you can clean the space between the hinge, lotta gross stuff will build up there in the kitchen.
- Eric_WVGG 5y agoI got to handle a Leica Q2 fixed lens camera today. I don’t know much but about photography, but the build quality of that thing… it puts my new 16” M1 MacBook Pro to shame. Also the Microsoft Elite game controller is just bewilderingly nice to handle.
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