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[unicornduke]

 After months of no combs for sale or extremely expensive ones, two different people have posted hand combs for sale, both for around 70 dollars plus shipping. I messaged one a few days ago and they haven't responded. But they also haven't updated the post. So I went ahead and messaged the second person who just posted their combs last night. 

We will see how that goes

I also bought a carbon steel knife for whittling purposes. My experiments in making spindles is doing decently and I want a better knife than my current utility knife. 

A cute game called Lemon Cake just came out, it's an indie game made by one person and she does really cute games. It's a bakery game, if you like diner dash or other games like that, it's very similar. I'm enjoying it so far. 

I've also got plans to play Valheim, which is apparently vikings open world building/mining/fighting game similar to minecraft, gonna play it with my siblings tonight. 

Weekend plans are: sidejob work, taking Mara to a park, watching hockey with friends, making yogurt, playing video games, ice skating

Comments

[unicornduke]

Ah, this is interesting! The problem with information on the internet these days is that the information is a firehose and it's hard to tell actually what is relevant with more general search terms. The sharpening thing didn't come at all when I was looking around. I did wanted a folding knife because it will be safer to store and easier to throw in my pocket, otherwise I was kinda uncaring about what else happened. Thank you for the thorough and useful explanation!

It's also just useful to have an extra knife or two around. I used to have a few here and there, just little pocket knives but they've gradually disappeared as life happened. I'm pretty much down to my multitool leatherman which lives in my pocket full time with my wallet and keys. Which works well but sometimes I'm wearing sweatpants and need a knife.

[graydon]

You're welcome!

It is absolutely a firehose and a lot of it is getting into what might as well be religious positions. (I have the advantage of being taught this stuff years and years ago when it came out of textbooks and the materials science hadn't got so far into elvish craft.)

Folders are absolutely preferable for pocket carry, yeah.

Sharpening as a subject starts bizarre arguments on knife forums; I suspect a lot of people want to avoid the arguments! Lots of excellent little combination stones these days; https://fallkniven.se/en/knife/dc4/ or https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details/303FCBN2/1078 are fairly top-of-the-line but also extremely low hassle.