03-17-2017, 07:06 AM
(03-16-2017, 05:11 PM)grepper Wrote: Yes, Welcome Thomas.Hi Grepper,
Methinks you are a far hardier soul than I. I complain, whine and cry like a baby over Michigan winters!
Did you start getting into sharpening while living with the Sami people? I would imagine that was a pretty primitive environment back then, and there really was not much in the way of sharpening "equipment".
"...miles of Forest around my house"
Sounds beautiful!
I enjoy the years different seasons a lot. The change of seasons are very nice. Now I am longing after the summer and daylight 24/7. In the end KF the summer I am longing after the winter, fire in the fireplace and lamplight.
No I could sharpen before that time - but I learned a lot about sharpening when I lived there - and how sharpen edges on natural stones when I have forgot my sharpener at home... But it was there i learned that a edge shall only be as sharp it need to be for its purpouse. It was also during rhis rime I started to think about how a sharpening tool must look like that can shatpen both flat and convex edges with dull control shall be constructed. Those thoughts are EdgePal sharpening Tools today.
Primitive? That depends what you compare with. Where I lived was wilderness - but I lived veey comfortble in my Hogan when I was home - and in tent when I was in other places. Somerimes under the sky, in a cave or just below a rock. I liked that way of living then, today am I older and I prefer my waterbed...
Today a moose bull with great antlers stand outside my house and eat from the bushes. We have wolfs, bears, lynx, deers, foxes, beavers in the area, sometimes outside the house. This is normal for this area of Sweden.
On my homepage is a video about beavers, made from a window of the second floor of my house. For me is living like this, high life quality.
Thomas