I’m not sure why I bought this Texas Toothpick. For some enigmatic and unexplainable reason, I bought it. I’m not a huge fan of slip joints. The blade is… calling it a patina would be kind. The tip is broken off, and the front third of the blade is bent to the left.
I kept it on a shelf in the garage, and one night, I turned off the light, looked around to make sure I had closed the pedestrian side door and noticed something worthy of the Ghost Busters. Something was glowing on my bench. Thinking I had left a tool plugged in, I turned on the light.
Nope, nothing left on. I turned off the light, and the glow was still there. What?
After playing games with lights, I discovered my Texas Toothpick had glow-in-the-dark scales. I should have guessed, in faint letters hot pressed into the handle were letters that read, SPOOK Knife. The “O’s” were made to look like cartoon eyes.
I like Frank’s writing. Who among us doesn’t have a goofy knife or two that don’t fit with our usual collection.
Read the whole thing at The Knife Edge, Frank’s personal blog.
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