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[Chris Garriss <cgarriss@garriss.net>]

Depending on where you are Fisher Scientific sells parafilm in 2" and 4"
rolls

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:34 PM, <david.maxwell@dal.ca> wrote:

>
> > ('Til a workshop last spring, all the grafting I've done has been with
> > my knife, but we're trying to limit the flow of blood.  And some folks
> > do not process well the instructions on how to avoid cutting their
> > fingers.  So a dedicated grafting tool gives us more options.)
>
> I too am doing a grafting workshop this spring, and got a marvellous
> suggestion to avoid
> blood-letting.  Make up little discs (or squares) with a hole in the
> centre.  These slip over the
> stock or scion while one is making the cuts, (between one's hand and the
> cut), so that if the
> knife slips, it simply hits the disc rather than flesh.  (In practical
> terms, the knife slips happen
> when one is cutting the "tongue" in a whip-and-tongue, because that is
> when one is cutting
> towards oneself rather than away.)
> I stand to be corrected, but it appears to me that the grafting tools work
> well only if the stock
> and scion are very close to the same diameter, while grafts made with
> knives are much more
> tolerant of differing diameters.  Any comments?
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