What do you use your knives for?

**Bladenoobie1** · 10-07-2012, 01:36 PM

Being a relatively large forum, with many different knives, what do you use your knives for? Whether you just have em as a safe queen or you use them as a baton, post your response here

Personally, I use mine for cutting fruit, opening packages, and bring them on backpacking trips for regular camp tasks. No hard use and I keep em pretty clean. ~ How about you?

- Bladenoobie1

**bladeboss** · 10-07-2012, 02:40 PM

Ranges from hard woods use, to dirty work, to cutting food. None of them are designated for anything except my Gerbers, which are for trashy abuse.

**pialia** · 10-07-2012, 02:48 PM

Telemarketers.

... and opening packages containing other knives.

My choppers/bushcrafters are pretty self-explanatory

**cutitout** · 10-07-2012, 03:02 PM

I do a lot of fondling, opening and closing and cutting apples. Doesn't make sense that I enjoy knives so much I don't really need more than what is in my kitchen if I am honest, but I do. Luckily my wife has put up with it because I have a lot of very expensive knives.

I guess one added benefit of collecting knives is that I have added a lot of healthy fruit to my diet.

**Ares1307** · 10-07-2012, 03:08 PM

I use mine mostly at work, cutting boxes, plastic ties (not zipties), paper, and big cardboard slabs. Outside of work they cut fruit, open packages, wood, more cardboard, and when I get a chance I take them out hunting/fishing/hiking and use them for everything. I dont consider anything I use them for as hard use, but my fixed blade will get used harder than my folders. I keep my knives pretty clean and unabused, except for that tape stuff that gets on the blade after opening a couple hundred boxes.. but that cleans off pretty well.

**C_Becker** · 10-07-2012, 03:32 PM

My EDCs mostly get used at work, because the kitchen knives we have there couldn't cut wet tissues.

So I use my own knives for preparing my breakfast and lunch.
Also for opening packages and cutting cardboard so it fits the container better.
At home I use them when I'm too lazy to walk to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife

The larger fixed blades only get used for camping etc

**wouldestous** · 10-07-2012, 03:41 PM

i mostly use my knives to cut stuff. occasionally they double as a temporary paperweight. but mostly its all cutting.

**Zookie** · 10-07-2012, 03:47 PM

I used my folders frequently at work cutting wires, cardboard and opening stuff.

Also use 'um to open boxes of ammunition, food prep, open the bag of doggy food and a little whittling here and there.

My NMSFNO I used when camping, such a great all around'er.

**Bob W** · 10-07-2012, 03:56 PM

I have four knives dedicated as Users. Those get used for cutting stuff, backpacking and hiking, and general carry. The one that gets used the most is a small Swiss Army Knife with a stylus that I use on PDAs at work.

The other ~450 knives are for lookin' at, fondling, and collecting.

**knarfeng** · 10-07-2012, 04:14 PM

I am an urban home owner. I use them when working around the house and yard tacklng the never-ending list of fix-its.
I trim flashing off plastic parts,
cut hose,
cut rubber,
cut cardboard,
open bubble packed parts.

When I was a young man, I used to use my pocket knife to scrape carbon off my spark plugs before re-gapping the plugs and reinstalling them back in my engine. But that was a few decades ago.

**gga357** · 10-07-2012, 04:29 PM

Everday use(tools)
Everything, cutting 80%, prying 10%, screwdriver 4% & hammer 3% whatever needs to be done 3%

Customs/handmade
20% cutting 80% safe queens.

**vic2367** · 10-07-2012, 06:52 PM

i use mine for everyday food prep ,opening packages,garden work ,

**Nullity** · 10-07-2012, 07:03 PM

Cutting, screwing, crushing, scraping, fondling, electrocuting, sharing, bragging, bleeding, chopping, prying.

Particularly, opening packages, cutting zip-ties, adjusting screws, splitting pills, prying plastic, making fires, scraping metal, cutting food.

Haha... I never thought I'd have to remember any of these things.

**Grease** · 10-07-2012, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by Nullity

Cutting, screwing, crushing, scraping, fondling, electrocuting, sharing, bragging, bleeding, chopping, prying.

Particularly, opening packages, cutting zip-ties, adjusting screws, splitting pills, prying plastic, making fires, scraping metal, cutting food.

Yep... Pretty much all of those.

Not all with the same knife though