If you’re a chef or hope to be, don’t buy cheap knife guards for your knives. We have spent years developing the Knife-Guard brand sheaths and use state-of-the-art tooling. They don’t split and they hold their tension for many years. Buying knife guards that are branded with a cutlery company’s name, doesn’t mean that they have the same quality as their knives. They care about their knives, not their guards. We used to make knife guards for many in the cutlery business, but not anymore. We lost them to overseas sourcing just because they wanted them cheap. Some even sent our product over there to be copied. Get the original Knife-Guard, the one with the hyphen in the middle. Still made in the U.S.A.
My father and grandfather were masons. A bricklayer’s most important tool is their trowel. A professional trowel is rigid like a chef’s knife. Like a knife they do wear down. Think of all the times it gets passed through that abrasive mortar. Well, when my father was an apprentice, he bought his first trowel. He told me that his father grabbed it, looked at it; then bent it in half. He gave it back to him and said, get yourself another trowel. My father thought he was saving money, and back in the 1950s that meant, Made in Japan.
