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THE DAD KNIFE TEST

Most in my age group were raised with a slip joint knife. It’s the knife Dad always carried in his pocket. Being raised with a dad who was a commercial fisherman, I used knives as tools every day—everything from cleaning fish to making fishing nets.

My father, Jacob, always used a three-bladed stockman for

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