On a 52,000-hectare sheep and cattle station, grazier Bodie Hill sits in a corrugated iron shed, sanding steel under a fluorescent light.
Crates of local timber surround his workstation, and handle-less knives hang from the walls.
Outside, low-lying shrubs grow from the dirt of his isolated property, which is more than 400 kilometres from the nearest major town of Broken Hill.
Out here, near where the Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales borders meet, the quiet is broken only by the wind, the stock, and the whine of the grinder.
Hand-making knives is time-consuming and physically gruelling.
For Bodie, it is meditative.
I liked this one. I lived 20 minutes outside of Rigby, ID, and 45 mins outside Idaho Falls. I can’t imagine being multiple hour remote from Civilization.