i had an opinel when i was 14, used it for fishing, making dens etc.. only cost me a fiver back then. i was so impressed i showed my mate how good the locking system was by locking it then pushing down on the blade. the lock ring slipped and i damned near cut my thumb off. a and e for 4 hours whilst they stitched it back up again. regardless of that, it was my first real knife and it did my proud until that point. by the way, my friend fainted like a bachelor finding out he had 5 kids.i used that knife to make yew tree branch bows, arrows, everything, never sharpened it once, it held its edge well. apart from almost ruining my recorder playing, it was a good general purpose knife for a kid to have.
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