I'm a big fan of knives/edged tools. He makes some gorgeous handmade knives.

  I look at them like I do high-end fishing rods/reels for canoe trips. IF you can't AFFORD to lose them, you shouldn't bring them.

  I take my better knives when I'm in the woods hunting or hiking and my cheaper ones when I canoe because I would  :'( if I ever lost a work of art like that in a canoeing incident.