Any knife will cut. Any car will transport. Whether a more expensive knife or a more expensive car is worth it is down to personal preference. You know your dad better than anyone here.

It's a handsome knife and is sure to do its job.

I have a couple of them and I love em, but they definitely don't wear like a German knife. It's noticably sharper than our sharpest German knife, but over time they've developed a series of small nicks along the blade. These are still our go-to knives, but when we're cutting something particularly tough where we want to put one hand on top of the blade, we pull out the German knives. The blade is thicker so you can comfortably put a hand on the back... so these knives are not a do-anything knife and you need to be ok with the inevitable chips.

Not for people who don’t know how to protect their fingers and hold food down correctly

Lol those are definitely some “only three easy payment of $19.95,” late night infomercial knives!

People disagree. Personally I consider it to be something that is going to last at least 15-20 years with relatively minimal expense.

Some people think it’s just “it lasts longer than other things in the category.” Like boots that have durable uppers with replaceable soles, or a Toyota that requires less maintenance than average. Personally “buy high quality products and/or reparable products” Is not bifl to me, but to each their own.

I have a desk made out of 4” thick ancient old growth wood that was used in a cotton gin built in the 1820s. I’ve had it for 10 years and obviously, it still looks new. It’s 200 year old wood and a metal base. That’s bifl (and your kids’ lives).

Yessss these shoes last a long time

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I have the Miyabi Birchwood handle knife as well - the 8" SG2 Chef's Knife. I've also had a few Shun and some high end Henkel. For me the Miyabi is the best knife I have ever owned in terms of holding an edge, lightweight, and usability. I know a few have remarked about them being brittle or hard to sharpen - They probably know what they are talking about, but I can simply say this. I've used this knife daily for the past five years and its still as sharp as a razor with only a few swipes of the Henkel sharping rod before each use.

Dropping any knife from counter height will potentially ruin it, whether the most expensive Yoshihiro Custom Kiritsuki, a KitchenAid WalMart Special, or a Benchmade pigsticker. Dropping ruins knives. Absolutely these Miyabi knives can be BIFL if properly cared for and maintained.

for me it's that it's well worth whatever I paid for it. when it dies I want to think, "wow, that lasted longer than I thought it would".

I think they are pretty nice for sure, but for that money you can get a better steel from another Japanese knife. I would suggest going to Carbon Knife Company's site or Japanny or Japanese Knife Imports, Knifewear and looking at anything in Blue #2/#1 Aogami Super or White that is in the same price range and trust me, any will objectively out perform FC61.

These are pretty decent knives, don't get me wrong. However, blue #2 is so much better. These Miyabi knives are mass produced in a factory and are a likeness of a fine quality hand forged Japanese knife.

instead of doing a split payment on two cards, you can probably buy a gift certificate at the store you want to buy the blanket from and then use the gift certificate along with your other card for the final payment.

*I work for an online retailer and this is how we get around split card payments.

Hi! I actually read through a lot of previous posts and a lot pointed to Sterns and Foster and Tempur-pedic as being of quality. These were all found in comments— but never saw anyone directly discuss the brands against one another, hence my specific question.

Lol, yeah I know, just fuckin' with ya

No mes maybe?

https://www.discoverytrekking.com/ultra-fast-dry-towel pretty sure this is where I bought it

You can use your gift card + a credit card to make up the difference online, assuming that’s your goal. We just bought a king sized wool blanket a few months ago doing just that. I do recall it was kind of buggy on the site though—something to the effect of it not recognizing the gift card at first when I tried to split the payment. If that’s what happened to you, just try again a few times and it will work.

With that said, we are also on the east coast (VA/DC area) and I spent months trying to find a convenient location that sold Pendleton’s so that I could feel the difference between napped and unnapped before throwing down the extra cash. You’ll want to decide on that too, if you haven’t considered it. We settled on an unnapped design, which is thin with sharper details. Napped will be physically thicker (but with the same amount of wool) with less defined patterns.

You are conclusion shopping when you should first visit the search engine and review the results based on many previous conversations based on this topic. There is no BIFL brand, but there are BIFL mattress types and the #1 most touted one is latex. If you want a BIFL mattress, you want a latex one. Will you like it as they are heavy as hell, tend to be pricey and hot? Those are you questions as most mattress questions are you questions vice internet questions.

I will have to ask him tomorrow and get back to you.

I believe my photography skills are a bigger issue than his shoe size discrepancy.

Second the brittleness point. I dropped a chefs knife of similar make from counter-height and it snapped like 2 inches down from the tip.

I'm not sure any knives of this style can be BIFL. Just because they are designed to be thin and light.

Something like a cleaver can be because it's a hefty hunk of metal.

Maybe I’m confused. Prices on their website start around £250. £60 would be a great deal.I heard of them through Rose Anvil who cuts boots and shoes in half to dissect them. I had never heard of them and, knowing Northampton, I thought I would look them up. Very impressive.

Fantastic that they do this in house. Def a bifl brand, and the 1st ive heard of it!

Any idea what the refurbishment costs?

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What kind if a chef is your father? The overwhelming majority of even enthusiast chefs do not need anything but a victorinox fibrox 8" chefs knife. It is high quality, stays sharp, and is easy to keep sharp and care for. Anything else is really overkill.