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["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

I have found myself when cutting scions or stock that I have my tips of my thumbs together and it Puts a lot of  controls on any slips. Being on Coumidin (Rat Poison) for the rest of my life I have to be very careful. Try it it can stop a slip many times. I try to remember to show this to anyone I teach grafting to. I did forget to show Bob Halgren last spring and He had a lot of stitches.

Lucky is right you have a right handed grafting knife.

I have sent Lucky and Doc L TV clip of a person using bypass pruning shears to make the cuts and I think it is the way I will be going. The knife then only is to clean up the one edge of the cut. Make sure the pruners are sharp. 

Gordon C. Nofs

Flint, MI.

From: Lucky Pittman
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grafting knife grip?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:32:34 -0600

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

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