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Best budding knife for my needs?

9 years ago

Hi! I've been thinking about getting a Victorinox budding knife, I don't fully understand the utility of the blades in the different models, I was hoping someone more experienced could help me out choose.

I would be doing pretty much only roses and maybe a few, few citrus now and then. Using chip and T-buds.

I've been budding with the plain blade of a Nautica multi tool pocket knife so far. A few things have taken, but it is a bit uncomfortable to handle for this purpose and needs to be re-sharpened very often (I don't even think it is made to be re-sharpened at all).

One of the thing that gets my attention the most is the brass bark puller. With the experiences I've had now, I figure that would be very handy, but I've read negative comments on that. I do know the back end of the blade serves for this purpose as well, but I don't know, it looks like it'd be helpful to have both options.

I'm leaning for this model for that reason, and also because it is really aesthetically pleasing, like, damn.

I think there's also a version without the brass bit of that blade, as well.

Then there's the boring-shaped one, without the blade puller, which is usually found cheaper.

Then there's the double bladed one. I don't really understand the use of the curved one. Is it meant to be helpful somehow following the curvature of a stem's cylindricality? Is it for pruning? I can't think of a way something other than shears could make a clean cut for pruning. It seems the back-end puller is omitted, too.

Any idea what the florist line is used for as well?

I appreciate your input, guys.

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