For most of my life, I have used cheap kitchen knives, for the simple reason that they are cheap and good enough for me. I was taught that it is a poor craftsman who blames his tools, and your tools should never be better than you. Cheap knives were good enough for me and they were cheap. The cheapness was probably the primary consideration, the be perfectly candid.
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