SC - Shoe size vs. .....?

[CorwynWdwd@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/18/98 7:42:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time, troy at asan.com
writes:

<<  Please understand this
 is in no way any kind of comment on you, my lord, but my experience has
 been that ladies and smaller people generally prefer smaller knives,
 with the possible exception of ladies with Chinese cleavers, where the
 relationship seems more in inverse proportions ;  ).
 
 Adamantius
 _________________________________ >>


Hmmmm.
I am 5'4 1/2" tall.  I have tiny bones, but proportionately long forearms.
(My much taller sister cannot reach much higher than I can).  My two favorite
knives were made for me by a friend.  They are paired corn knives.  Each has a
rectangular blade 18" long by 3" wide with a wooden handle 8" long.  (Just
long enough for a two handed grip for me.)

Wanna match your 10 1/2 inches against my 18?

Seriously, I do not use these as cooking implements.  Our camp has been raided
several times by standard snatchers.  Their chief purpose is deterrence.  A
secondary purpose was found for the rolled steel one when we misplaced the
hatchet.  From then on it was common to see someone in our camp using it to
split firewood.  Unfortunately, one young, inexperienced kitchen scullion once
tried to chop wood with my STAINLESS corn knife, not knowing there was a
difference between the two.  He served KP for the remainder of the War under
strict supervision, and probably has a far better understanding of the
properties of metals and the care and feeding of blades than he ever hoped to
have

Mordonna (The Cook with two Knives)
and that is another story
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