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A SCHOOL OF VERSA-TOOLS

rends come and trends go, but multi-blade folders and tools have never come close to leaving the cutlery scene. First off, the collector and user base for traditional fare has been ingrained in the psyche of knife lovers for many generations. Fathers and grandfathers have gifted or passed their pocketknives and pocket tools down to sons and grandsons for eons. While there aren’t the huge number of manufacturers there used to be in the genre, there are plenty of such tools out there, ranging

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