Totally agreed... Why bother carrying a 400$ knife if you going to find a scissor every time your wife want to cut a sponge...
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Totally agreed... Why bother carrying a 400$ knife if you going to find a scissor every time your wife want to cut a sponge...
I don't baby my knives or treat them like fine china. Nor are they priceless works of art that must be protected at all cost. I buy a knife to USE it. My knives are cutting tools, and if I need to cut something, and if the knife I have handy can do the job, then I use it and call it a job well done.
I have a semi-obsession with getting my money's worth out of everything I own, perhaps it comes from growing up poor. I have several folders ranging from $100 to $300, and I truly wish that I had enough cutting chores that I could actually wear these knives out before I die.
When one of my knives gets dull from use, I don't look upon it as a tragedy or cause for despair, and I don't lament the fact that I have to sharpen it, quite the contrary, I see it as me getting my money's worth, and that gives me a lot of satisfaction.
When I leave this world I don't want people to find my knives and say "Wow! Those things are just like new. He must have hardly used them". No, I want people to look at them and say "Damn! He really used the HELL out of those things!".
Might as well use em' and enjoy em' while you can, because they may very likely outlast you. What's the point of spending hundreds of dollars on a CUTTING TOOL if you're afraid to cut stuff with it.
I have a semi-obsession with getting my money's worth out of everything I own, perhaps it comes from growing up poor. I have several folders ranging from $100 to $300, and I truly wish that I had enough cutting chores that I could actually wear these knives out before I die.
When one of my knives gets dull from use, I don't look upon it as a tragedy or cause for despair, and I don't lament the fact that I have to sharpen it, quite the contrary, I see it as me getting my money's worth, and that gives me a lot of satisfaction.
When I leave this world I don't want people to find my knives and say "Wow! Those things are just like new. He must have hardly used them". No, I want people to look at them and say "Damn! He really used the HELL out of those things!".
Might as well use em' and enjoy em' while you can, because they may very likely outlast you. What's the point of spending hundreds of dollars on a CUTTING TOOL if you're afraid to cut stuff with it.
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You guys totally miss the point about using the right tool for the job but I get most of you are obsessed with trying to use your whizbang knife at any opportunity. How else can you justify $400 for a knife when I $40 knife will cut just as well and last just as long? I don't feel compelled to pull out a knife at every opportunity when another cutting tool is a better fit for the job. It's not being "afraid" it's about using the right tools for the right jobs. Maybe as some of you get older you'll see the whole knife thing differently as I do from having carried a knife of some sort for over half a century. 
I was just reading a thread from 6-26-13 entitled "High End Carry Knife" where you were critical of people for NOT USING their high-end knives. And yet here you are criticizing someone for actually USING their high-end knife. I find that rather odd.You guys totally miss the point about using the right tool for the job but I get most of you are obsessed with trying to use your whizbang knife at any opportunity. How else can you justify $400 for a knife when I $40 knife will cut just as well and last just as long? I don't feel compelled to pull out a knife at every opportunity when another cutting tool is a better fit for the job. It's not being "afraid" it's about using the right tools for the right jobs. Maybe as some of you get older you'll see the whole knife thing differently as I do from having carried a knife of some sort for over half a century.
As far as the age thing goes, I sure hope that as I get older that I don't start judging and criticizing people for how they choose to use THEIR knives. And I hope I can be consistent in my point of view.
I don't care how long you have been carrying a knife or if you were born with a knife in your hand, that doesn't give you the right to tell others when it's appropriate for THEM to use THEIR knives.
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Sorry for expressing an opinion you don't like but that's what internet forums are for; discussion and sharing opinions, not blind obedience to someone else's POV. And yeah, I'm particularly critical of using a high end knife for cutting things like an abrasive pad and of high end knives in general. It's a lot of internet fanboy stuff. If I'm not welcome to share a contrary opinion I'm sure a mod will let me know.
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You guys totally miss the point about using the right tool for the job but I get most of you are obsessed with trying to use your whizbang knife at any opportunity. How else can you justify $400 for a knife when I $40 knife will cut just as well and last just as long? I don't feel compelled to pull out a knife at every opportunity when another cutting tool is a better fit for the job. It's not being "afraid" it's about using the right tools for the right jobs. Maybe as some of you get older you'll see the whole knife thing differently as I do from having carried a knife of some sort for over half a century.
so, you'd rather he dull a pair of scissors over a sebenza? I don't get it. I actually share your sentiment on high end knives, but cutting abrasive material isn't remotely abusive. CUTTING something generally needs the right CUTTING tool, am I wrong? scissors would have crushed up that sponge before cutting it, and the "damage" done to his knife edge is nothing that five minutes on a sharpmaker can't handle.
if you were arguing about him trying to chop through some branches or pry nails from a cabinet I'd be right there with you. but he used his cutting tool to cut something...
I think it's obvious that you are doing more than just "expressing an opinion".
The OP said that he cut a scouring pad with a knife (Gasp!). And you made your critical opinion of the OP's action quite clear in your FIRST post in this thread. And then for some reason you chose to repeat your criticism in TWO MORE posts, saying among other things- "you are obsessed with trying to use your whizbang knife at any opportunity". And that made me wonder about your motives.
But then your last post made it all quite clear- You admittedly have a prejudice against high-end knives and the people who own them. You refer to them as "internet fanboys" simply because they own an expensive knife. And you take any opportunity to bash them for it, even to the point of contradicting yourself from one thread to another. Yes, I'd say that you have made your opinions quite clear for all to see.
Of course you are free to express a difference of opinion, but expressing a difference of opinion is one thing, bashing people because you disagree with their choice of knives is something else altogether.
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why would you take your expensive mountain bike down that really rocky hill, when you know it will just wear your components out faster. it's like you just need an excuse to use your whiz bang bike to ride on any surface. why don't you just stick to the paved bike paths with speed limits?