Do you have a knife you keep to seriously abuse?

Most would probably say that I abuse my SAK. It gets used for everything and if I really mess it up (like break a blade), I have two spares in my cabinet waiting to be put into service. There are a few chips on the blade at present but they will eventually get sharpened away.
 
I don't usually abuse my knives but will use them hard. I will cut beer cans and strip wire with any of my knives which most are Sprint runs that are somewhat rare. I will cut braided speaker wire but heavier single strand like 12 gauge romex I put more in the abuse category.

I have a brand new CS American Lawman that has steel liners that I wasn't that impressed with. I also like higher end steel so the AUS8 doesn't excite me. I have been thinking about carrying it as a beater to do dumb things with like loaning out and scraping stuff. I already carry multiple knives so I could leave a higher end knife at home and take a beater. But then I think about my older users that are good but lower end from when I was starting to get into knives. I could carry my Kershaw Lahar and not kill the resale value of the Lawman. Decisions, decisions. Ok, I'm done rambling.
 
I have an old Chinese made kabar knock off. I mainly use it for cutting of squirrel tails for my cats to play with. I also have a crkt hissatsu that has seen major use. Most of the paint on the blade is long gone
 
clich said:
yeh its called a bk2. get one. its bulletproof
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Ya no kidding eh. Pry stumps apart with it..... Some hard use here, but not real abuse. Neglect maybe. Got a machete in the trunk that I haven't looked at for 6-8 months. Maybe time to check up on it, thanks for the reminder.
 
When I still had my Persistence, I beat that thing pretty good. All cutting tasks, but I cut some nasty, grimy stuff on some bad surfaces. My Delica FFG has seen a bunch of use but no real abuse to speak of.
 
Well, I don't know if this would be considered knife abuse or electronics abuse but the Dogfather handled it well. I was really getting sick of this radio and when a Sting song came on that was the final straw.
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Ontario SP10 bowie, I use it for a lot of stuff. Wood splitting, hammer, etc, I bent the tip almost 45 degrees and heated it and hammered it back. Bent It at the handle too when i was using it for entertainment by throwing it around... stays in the back of my 4runner.
 
hoopster said:
Well, I don't know if this would be considered knife abuse or electronics abuse but the Dogfather handled it well. I was really getting sick of this radio and when a Sting song came on that was the final straw.
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Remind me never to piss you off! :p
 
vsrnj said:
Probably the reason the geniune Kabar is the most commonly carried belt knife by survival practiciners in the world.
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Uhh... I sincerely doubt that. What would you base a claim like that on, anyway?

EDIT: By that I just mean that the Kabar is not ideal for survival, it has the spine-side guard, a weak tip, and a questionable rat-tail tang that has been proven to fail when batonning (yeah, yeah, I know lots of people here have batonned with their Kabars... but lots of people have also tried it and ended up with a knife blade broken off at the handle). It is a fine fighting knife, but I would strongly disagree that it is a good choice for survival. And I don't know any surival expert, famous or not, who carries it.
 
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I have a first run Cold Steel SRK that has taken more than it should have, a Trailmaster (rehandled in desert ironwood with a cut down guard) that has seen much abuse and, more recently, two or three mora-style knives (including some I made) that have been put through the wringer. Cross grain batoning, torquing, digging in rocky soil, chopping through wire, punching through sheet metal, etc.

Frankly, when I see what an inexpensive, garden-variety knife can take it does make me question the extra $$$ we put down for the 'super steels'...

Mark
 
Zytel M16 Tanto by CRKT has cut many a piece of sod and been plunged into the dirt/rock/soil to cut pesky roots when pulling shrubs many times back in my days as a landscaper.

The serrations made it a pretty good landscaping workhorse.

Sadly it got retired to the bottom of my toolbox when I switched to an office job.
 
I have a Becker CU7 that receives a lot of use but it refuses to die. I've dinged the edge on rocks while chopping, sharpened it, and kept going. Not that I really want to kill it, mind you, since it is the most outstanding chopper I own after my Cold Steel kukri machete. And for the money, I could wreck both without much guilt.
 
Oh, I also forgot... I recently purchased a Cold Steel Pendleton Hunter Lite. Unbelievably tough and solid knife for less than $15.00. For that amount of money, I wouldn't mind pushing the knife a bit more in a pinch :) I haven't done any serious cutting tests yet; I'm interested to see how the Krupps steel performs.
 
Yes, my Scrapyard S6. Although I don't call it abuse, I use it for anything and everything from battoning, chopping, prying, and, of course, cutting. It is my only Busse Kin knife I have left and will never sell.
 
Yes My Cold Steel Bush Ranger..... I have heavily abused it.
For example ....Used it to split many, many tough oak logs including ones with serious knots in them.
Hit it on the back with an ax and a hammer when battoning many logs, Dug it in the ground and many things.
This Cold Steel Bush Ranger is one very very tough knife, probably my favorite.
 
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