SHARPEST TOOL

I’m quite sure there are very few men around who’ve not had a bloody encounter with a knife at some stage in their lives, yet despite the danger (or probably because of the danger), we still have a strange obsession with knives. The knife guide feature published in the September 2019 issue was truly cutting edge, and the variety of knives goes to show just how far this obsession has taken us.

A knife is not a knife if it’s blunt, and as a child I was forever trying to sharpen the business end of my ‘penknife’. I used rocks, sandpaper, my mother’s nail file … I even tried on