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According to the book Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers, the noted fell-walker and guidebook author Alfred Wainwright had four suits: his best suit, which he wore to church; his second-best suit, which he wore to work; his third-best suit, which he wore for hillwalking; and his scruffiest suit, which he wore for gardening. When his gardening suit wore out, he'd buy a new suit, which would become his Sunday suit, and all his existing suits would be demoted to the next position in line. This was in the days when business attire was still constructed sturdily enough to stand outdoor use, and specialist mountain clothing (made of silk and gabardine) was outside almost everyone's budget. I suspect that Wainwright's approach to clothes-shopping was fairly common at the time, though Wainwright's suit-pipeline was probably longer than most.
Many years ago, probably some time in the mid-Nineties, I watched a ten-minute documentary on (I think) Channel 4, about two craftsmen who manufactured their own knives for use in their work. One was an up-and-coming sushi chef, and the knife he was making was his first; I think it may have marked the end of his apprenticeship, but I can't remember much about his segments of the programme. The other was a maker of ballet shoes, with many years' experience. In the course of his work, he used half-a-dozen different types of knife, each with its own specific use. But the thing was, they were all the same knife. He made his knives on the Wainwright principle, you see. His knives all had to be razor-sharp all the time, so he made them from very soft steel, and sharpened them constantly. Cut, cut, sharpen, cut, cut, sharpen, switch to new knife, cut, cut, sharpen, etc. The blades thus wore away very fast, so what had started out as a large convex blade soon turned into a smaller straight blade, which then turned into a thinner concave blade, and then the tip snapped off and it became a different type of blade again. Roughly once a month, his smallest knife became useless or his largest knife stopped being useful for the largest-knife jobs (I can't remember which), and he knew it was time to forge a new large convex knife.
It was a truly great piece of television, opening doors into little worlds I'd never imagined. But I can't find it now. Living as we do in the far-off future of the twenty-first century, I'd have expected someone to have uploaded it to the 'net, or at least written about it somewhere, but I can't find it at all. Worse yet, it was part of a series; I have no idea what the other episodes covered (I think the overall theme was something like "how people in unusual jobs do their work", or maybe "the tools people use"), but I'd love to see them.
Can anyone help?
Many years ago, probably some time in the mid-Nineties, I watched a ten-minute documentary on (I think) Channel 4, about two craftsmen who manufactured their own knives for use in their work. One was an up-and-coming sushi chef, and the knife he was making was his first; I think it may have marked the end of his apprenticeship, but I can't remember much about his segments of the programme. The other was a maker of ballet shoes, with many years' experience. In the course of his work, he used half-a-dozen different types of knife, each with its own specific use. But the thing was, they were all the same knife. He made his knives on the Wainwright principle, you see. His knives all had to be razor-sharp all the time, so he made them from very soft steel, and sharpened them constantly. Cut, cut, sharpen, cut, cut, sharpen, switch to new knife, cut, cut, sharpen, etc. The blades thus wore away very fast, so what had started out as a large convex blade soon turned into a smaller straight blade, which then turned into a thinner concave blade, and then the tip snapped off and it became a different type of blade again. Roughly once a month, his smallest knife became useless or his largest knife stopped being useful for the largest-knife jobs (I can't remember which), and he knew it was time to forge a new large convex knife.
It was a truly great piece of television, opening doors into little worlds I'd never imagined. But I can't find it now. Living as we do in the far-off future of the twenty-first century, I'd have expected someone to have uploaded it to the 'net, or at least written about it somewhere, but I can't find it at all. Worse yet, it was part of a series; I have no idea what the other episodes covered (I think the overall theme was something like "how people in unusual jobs do their work", or maybe "the tools people use"), but I'd love to see them.
Can anyone help?
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TALES OF TOOLS:THE KNIFE
Programme number: LSFK313R
Date: 25/03/1999
6/6 short films abt tools & those who use them. This prog looks at people who earn their living with their knife. Nacer is an Algerian sushi chef who works at conveyor belt sushi bar Yo Sushi, Soho. Bob is a top ballet shoe maker
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Is there a way to go about acquiring this footage?
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If it's any consolation, I note that there's Richard Feynman collection featured at the moment.
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http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?board=tvgen
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Port forwarding issues. Help please?
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