maintenance

The hand and the knife — daily tools that are mostly maintenance

On choosing a knife, an axe, a pair of shears, a pen — daily tools where the difference between a six-month and a sixty-year object is, almost entirely, the discipline of sharpening, lubricating, and not losing them. The Daily tools shelf is the most accusatory shelf in the library.

• ·daily tools
• ·knives
• ·sharpening
• ·maintenance

• Durable
• Deep
• Honest