Most grafters have accumulated a super large collection of grafting knives, anywhere from cheap to expensive ready to do battle. I haven’t add too much since day one, my grafting days are coming to an end, 3 or 4 a year. My most used graft is still the W/T graft, it’s hard to detect.
Grafting is very relaxing for me, never in a hurry. Need a good chair.
Most all of them are over 50 years old. Tina knives were $25.00 than.
i got one of those high end german ones someone was selling on eBay for $35. think it is a soriigen. works awesome but tell you the truth a new sheetrock knife works just as good. you just can’t pry open a cleft like you can with a grafting knife. i think its worth the money for the good steel and craftsmanship. something you can pass down to the next generation. you can shave with this thing when its sharpened and it stays sharp for a long time. haven’t got myself yet but its only a matter of time!
This year I broke the piggy bank and bought a Scionon grafting tool to make whip and tongue grafts for my pawpaw nursery. In the past I always used a cleft graft, which works well but is not as elegant as a W&T. I am reasonably happy with it. I’m making great slanted cuts for the whip, but on smaller stock (less than pencil) the tool is not easy to make the tongue cut. For the small stuff I resort to using a knife on the tongues. This method results in a beautiful graft which heals quickly. For nut trees that are a bit larger it works really well.
