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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 4360052, member: 29&quot;]People valued things more, in many ways. Buying new was more expensive than getting a local blacksmith or handyman to mend. That may well have been done by the man of the house. </p><p><br /></p><p>Growing up, we had a kitchen paring knife which had lost its wooden handle ages since. The sailor grandfather I never knew had whip bound it a new one, with string. Nicest thing to hold and my parents treasured it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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