Kevin Ballet is the heir to a tradition. Since the Iron Age, there have been sharpeners! “Even before”, corrects the young grinder. “Flint weapons and tools also had to be sharpened after a period of use. The Nancyian is therefore not only a descendant, certainly distant, of the biblical Tubal-Cain, considered the initiator of metalworking. Filiation is well anchored in the history of humanity. Modestly, he presents himself simply as a craftsman who goes to meet his customers, no longer on foot by walking through the streets as his predecessors did for centuries, but by giving appointments in car parks, like that of the Farm Les Fruitiers in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, or in markets in and around Nancy. A blade passed through his expert hands comes back to life to…
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