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My grandfather though wouldn't have it with all that "useless crap" as he put it.
"Those things (all other gifts) aren't for him, they are to make it easier for YOU to take care of him. My gift is for him to use and you to worry about. Thats the way it should be."
"All a young boy needs is a good knife, a forest and some imagination. That will teach him more than all those soft toys ever could."
And then he put the knife in my crib (don't worry it was sheathed). Unwrapped. Needless to say my grandfather didn't believe in wrapping. Waste of paper.
My mother protested wildly (after she first pulled the knife from my crib ofcourse) saying that he couldn't give me a knife, I'd cut myself. His only comment was:
"Then he'll learn knives are sharp, thats a good first lesson. Told you it would teach him."
It was a smaller model then showed in the link, made for kids and with a bigger guard. Ofcourse my parent's didn't give it to me until a couple of years later though. But thats not the point.
The point is I learned more things using that knife then from any other thing I have ever owned. Probably because it was used the most when in company of my grandfather and father.
Oh and when I grew enough to be able to hold a fullsized knife he gave me an upgrade to one of those too.