I'm tired right now. I spent pretty much all evening at my friend's house helping her rip up carpet. Last Monday night we got a torrential downpour of raini that lasted for a long time. Part of her place flooded, thus thoroughly soaking the carpet and padding in one room. And since then, the wet carpet began to stink like a mofo. She asked if I can come over this evening to help rip it up so after work today I grabbed the TacTool, threw it into the toolbox, grabbed my wrecking bar, and jumped in the car to head on out. When I got there, I discovered that the carpet was pinned in by molding. And the molding needed to be removed first before we could rip up the carpet and padding. Opening my toolbox, I grabbed the TacTool, unsheathed it, and picked up my 2 lb ball pein hammer and went to work on the molding. I hammered the TacTool on the butt end, driving the blade in between the molding and the drywall. Once it was in, I leveraged the blade out sideways, effectively pulling the molding away from the wall. Mind you, molding was on all 4 sides of the wall plus inside the little closet in that room. The TacTool was the star of the evening I tell you! I used the wrecking bar only when I needed a lot of leverage since it is way longer than the TacTool, but most of the prying I did with the knife in hand. Right now, the TacTool looks worse for wear. The butt end where it comes to a point is now flattened and the epoxy coating has been worn away. The back end of the scales are starting to pull away from the tang, which I think is caused by the GV6H flattening out with the hammer blows and lifting up the scales. The blade faired better than the butt of the handle. Sure, there's drywall powder stuff sticking to it but that'll just wash right off. And I was hammering the **** out of it too...with the 2 lb ball pein. I'm planning on posting a bit on this in the Camillus forum at BF, plus taking pictures of the knife as it is right now...just as I left it when leaving my friend's place. You guys really need to consider adding a striker pommel type protrusion on the tang of the TactTool like there is on the BK9 and 10. This will prevent the wear that mine has suffered. Still, I'm planning on using my TacTool in the same manner again if needed, it's a damn tough knife that will certainly take abuse and coming back at you with "is that all you got??"
I ended up hammering the butt of the knife to wedge it in between the moulding and wall in order to pry the moulding off. The tang deformed slightly, causing the scales to separate from the tang a bit. But the knife is still very useable
