The Fishman
5 year old buck +
I have been trying to come up with ideas for my Father's Day gift and I have been wanting to try grafting next year, so I would like to pick out a grafting knife. After searching the forums, it seems the Tina grafting knives are recommended, but they are a little pricey just to try my hand at grafting. I am looking at the Victorinox grafting knife for around $20 and another Victorinox grafting knife for around $40. The second Victorinox has a brass bark lifter. I am trying to learn about grafting and know a little bit, but there is still a tremendous amount that I don't know. My question is, what type of grafting method would make use of the brass bark lifter? The $20 knife has a bark lifter on the blade and it looks like the $40 knife has a bark lifter on the blade also. What would the brass bark lifter do that the bark lifter on the blade would not? I am mainly interested in grafting persimmons and pears so I believe that whip and tongue and bark grafting are the most common methods used in grafting these trees. Would either of these knives be appropriate or is there something better out there?