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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 08:35 AM 2/25/2004 -0500, Tom wrote:
> Finally bought a grafting knife with a single beveled edge.  Now I have a 
> question...
> I am following the instructions in the "Fruit Grafters Handbook" put out 
> by Burford and Fackler, and it does not
> mention whether the beveled edge should be up or down, when making cuts.
> I am right handed, and I assume that they sent me a right handed 
> knife.  When I hold the knife in my right fist,

Yes, you've got a right-handed knife.
I always make my cuts pulling toward me - the edge is facing me, and the 
bevel is up; I realize one's power-stroke should be on pushing away, but 
grafting is not so much a power thing as a finesse thing.  Of course, 
cutting toward one's self is one of the major reasons so many of us cut 
ourselves from time to time in the process.

Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY