I noticed that...and the smile on his face holding something he had a hand in creating!💪😎👍

anyone that mentions steel in the same sentence or context of a knife cutting well exposes themselves as an absolute know nothing. The steel uses in Murrays knives is some of the most basic, traditional, primitive, lowest edge retention, lowest toughness, easiest to rust steel that exists in the modern world and yet his knives still cut excellently, far beyond anything you mentioned. Why? Not because of steel. Because of geometry. I'd bet $1000 you have never experienced anything close. Most mass market edc knives are that knife bros like yourself consider "cut exceptionally well" are upwards of 30 thou behind the edge. The kind f knives in this video are 10 thou or less behind the edge. Doesn't sound like much but it's a massive difference. That thing will still cut better when it's totally dull at the edge or even doesn't have an edge on it at all than your knife will with a fresh edge on it.

Agreed

OK so I did a line by line google translate and here is what came up... 無魂 Soulless 夢なき者に理想なし Those without dreams have no ideals 理想なき者に信念なし People without ideals have no faith 信念なき者に計画なし Those without faith have no plans 計画なき者に実行し without a plan 実行なき者に成果なし No performance without execution 成果なき者に幸福なし No happiness for those without achievements

Say there was 50,000 full-timers, which I highly HIGHLY doubt....out of 300+ million, that's not even a drop in the bucket! Few is an understatement. 💪😎👍

@@user-cs3hi8zp7p that’s not really how this works lol. You don’t compare the amount of people in a particular trade up against the entire US population. Among American knifemakers… there are many more than “few” who are full time in our trade.

@@JimSkeltonKnives well, the claim 'he's one of the few Americans who make custom-made knives, fulltime, inside his shop in Idaho', is literally true. There are only a few Americans inside his shop in Idaho who make custom-made knives, fulltime. But that aside, he is one of the few who aren't self-taught (even by means of books and youtube) or even 'first generation' without decent formal training. Does that matter? It depends, unless the training (through whatever media) includes the relevant information that was and is being discovered and instructed through hundreds, and even thousands of years of practice, the product has less of a chance of being quality. I would say that many of those lessons are discoverable through self-study or whatever training, but there are a lot of nice-looking, bad products out there with the 'custom' label slapped on. And that goes for many industries. A prime example is watching the many contestants on 'forged in fire', many who claim to sell the product, constantly fail at forging something that is sound. However, that example is not perfect, as even some of the better bladesmiths still fail from time to time, especially so when doing something under gimmicky tv scenarios. And no, they do not represent everyone.