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Their response, to me, indicates a that one makes a journey with any particular knife. Deeper meaning lies within learning the medium as it reacts to the tools, and skill builds upon itself through time and usage. You give us beginners the idea that we waste our time and money if we entertain the esoteric, but, these other teachers suggest experience is richer if you try the sacred tools and waste the time that you save in being steadfastly a ute-knife man. It's a legitimate disagreement, but edifying, thought not for head knife sellers.

Hijacked or no, JLS, I just got to read Tor, Chief, Art,John,et al, and their honest ideas about what a head knife will do. I never thought to ask what a wiggling utility knife will do, but now I know there's people who'll buff and strop those beautifully wiggly blades.I bet setting a utility blade in a custom handle could be the bee's knees, if you please! My takeaway is that one might effectively make one's own blades and have a better experience, or pay the cost of a head knife and have a better experience learning the leather, or use that Stanley and be the happiest leather guy on earth, which you may well be, but the head knife market certainly takes a hit when you enter the room! For my part, I got suckered in on the HALF PRICE fake Damascus steel pretty black wood handled Al/Tandy header a few years back, and was rapt with pleasurable sensations as I mutilated a number of pieces, and stropped my way across the workshop with it, UNTIL I got hijacked, read this thread, and realized I was only hallucinating the whole thing. Thanks Guys!