Confess... toughest job

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Edalb

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hi there,

What's the toughest job(s) you've executed with your "best" folder successfully (i.e., job done and knife is safe and sharp enough to be used again)?

Mine would have to be one incident of cutting (black) 3/4" garden hose with my BM943 and many incidents of push-slicing italian salami LOL (hard as rock when dried up) with the same folder to prepare pizza YUMMY!

Best wishes,

Edalb
 
I haven't done anything terribly ridiculous; I'd have to go with cutting through 1 1/2" rope full of mud and dirt (BM 520).

Either that or the time a built a cabin using a SAK when I was stranded in the Alaskan wilderness. Nah, I'll go with the rope one :D.
 
I cut a couple hundred plastic tie wraps from chemical bags that we had to empty. My EDC has a large 1095 steel blade and cuts all day long.
 
Waiting for Yablanowitz, Noss4 & Cliff... Wait, scratch the last one....

Oh yeah and pretty much any of the hogs....
 
My brother in law used my Kershaw Chive to cut off his plastic fender around his running board after his truck was hit. It was a hanging section close to a quarter inch of plastic but not very long, a couple inches at best.
 
Lately I've been using my Byrd Crow to cut sandpaper and fiberglass. I can't believe how sharp it still is.
 
Cutting through a braided fuel line, at dark thirty on my old shovelhead. IT was leaking pretty good and had to use a splice from some extra I had in my saddlebags. Christ I always sounded like a tin can or something with those old bags jangling. Used a Buck 110 to do it. That braided s.s. hose is TOUGH! keepem sharp
 
Cut through three water hoses, both ends, and put new ends on them. Used my edc for that day, a ZT0500 MUDD. The 154CM did a great job of slicing and it still had the shaving edge upon completion, although when I got home I did hit it for about 10 licks on my Sharpmaker, just because it was there and I had the knife in my hand.
 
the bodies man :eek::eek:, the freaking bodies! :eek::eek::eek:

kidding!

i'd say stabbing drywall sheets so i could snap them for disposal.


zipties too.
 
I recently used my HK mini auto to shave lead from an automotive battery terminal to get it to fit the post properly. It took a couple tiny chips out of the edge.
 
I installed a brazilian koa hardwood floor in my living room and trimmed the ends after they were glued to the floor, so the transitition piece would fit properly with my m2 griptilian. The edge was dulled some but it was still quite sharp. Mechanically the grip held up fine.
 
When I was in high school I had to get a staff for karate class, I bought one mail order and it was WAY too thick. 1 1/4 inches I think, didn't sound like too much but compared to what everyone else was using it was way too heavy, and I was a skinny punk at the time.

SO I had to thin it down, I had no power tools, I tried hand sanding it and realized this will take forever. After trying to whittle it down a bit (with a butcher knife, natch--not a good solution!) I settled on scraping it down with the saw on my SAK. As I was doing it I realized this was unorthodox, but it ended up working quite well. I carved it down to a messy, grooved, thinner profile and then sanded out the roughness, still too thick so I repeated and it worked fine. Everyone in the class was going cool, this looks good, what did you do? I never told.

The SAK held up for maybe a year longer, at some point one of scales came off and I finally retired it--though actually only after even more use. The saw was fine, it was just the scale.
 
I used my mini to dig the marrow out of some marrow bones. The blade got a bit chipped up :)
 
A couple days ago, the window in the rear of our toyota 4runner was stuck in the open position (damn I hate automatic windows) at about 9 in the night and snowing pretty hard so we decided to bring the car into the backyard and put a tarp over it until next morning. I went to open the large double gate to the backyard and it wasnt opening. searched around with a light and found that some punk had tied up some pretty thick wire around them and it was knotted in about a million places. I used my buck 110 to cut through all that wire by putting the blade under the wire and prying towards myself. (I know it was stupid but the weather was pretty bad and I just wanted to get out of there.) When I opened one side, I couldnt lift the bolt on the other one out of the ground because it was covered in ice and frozen into the ground. I used the tip of the 110 to break up the ice around it. When I was inside, I took out the buck expecting major damage, but the edge was just a little rolled, a couple minuts with a whetstone fixed that. An exellent beater knife. I wouldnt have dreamed of using fancy tactical folders for that kind of abuse.
 
I don't think I can answer this question. I do a lot of things with my knives that seem to make others cringe. Cutting twenty-eight year old shag carpet in a flower shop for removal with a 440V Military is one that comes to mind. Drywall crack repair (removing paint, texture and joint compound from both sides of the crack all the way down to the sheetrock so I could re-tape the joint) with my brand-new S90V Military was another. Probably my all-time favorite was cutting the steel bands off a bundle of gas pipe with my Cold Steel Tanto back in the eighties. The look on the salesman's face was priceless. Cutting sheetrock, plywood, waferboard and particleboard, sole leather, old furniture...those things are so routine they aren't worth mentioning.
 
cutting the front window glass out of a car that rammed our Bradley in the middle of the night.(iraq), all the doors were jammed and that was the only way to get the dude out. tore the heck out of that Cold steal srk but it worked.
 
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