do you use your traditional knife on the job?

As another cubicle prisoner/corporate wage slave, my knives are pretty much relegated to opening envelopes and cutting fruit. They get more hearty use at home, but I also have a lot of purpose-specific blades, and try not to use my nice pocket knives for cutting brush, digging in the dirt, etc. "The right tool for the job", and all that.

-- Sam
 
Yeah, I gotcha Sam. I do believe in the right tool for the right job. Today I did not a lot of cutting with my Queen, but more so with snap cutters on cast iron. I do plumbing and yeah, there is a lot of stuff to be cut during the day. I have been looking at carrying my buck 110, but I am not sure if I wanna carry that big of a knife around with me. I've been thinking about a small pocket-able fixed blade. Any thoughts? And, I also agree on "The right tool for the right job"
 
These days I work in a cube farm, and the company has strict limits on acceptable size for a pocket knife. (2" max blade, 4 1/2" opened length) I mostly use my knife for opening small packages and peeling apples.

In past employments I have worked in labs, stores, factory floors, as a truck driver, as an electrician. In those jobs I used a knife a lot more.
 
I use mine for office and field stuff. I'm a civil engineer so my work has a mix of both. Part of the job is opening sealed bids for clients at public bid openings. I alway use a small slipjoint for that task.
 
Irrigation technician so I am in field work most of the day. I use mine for stripping wires, cutting zip ties, opening packages, and any excuse I can find to open my knife!
 
I own a Lawn/Landscape company. We maintain about 150 acres per week. I use my Sodbuster Jr Cv all the time. I don't even carry any other knife in my pocket most days. Although, I have found my yellerhandle peanut in my watch pocket some lately. I do have a Leatherman and Schrade LB7 in the truck door just in case. I cut spindle belts, and all the junk that gets caught in mower and bushhog spindles all the time. Sometimes electrical issues arise with all those mowers and tractors. Seed, fertilizer, and lime bags and my food gets handled with my Soddie.

Other than my Blackberry, which I use for work, I have found myself very traditional still and getting more so all the time. Even my snuff cans are metal and have a patina to them.
 
I spent the last half of my working life in a machine shop, and I think I must have used my pocket knife half a dozen times a day at least. Opening boxes, cutting dirty grimy tape from shipments of bar stock, trimming off the flash from machined delrin or other plastic parts that had burrs from being worked.
 
I'm a college student so my Copperhead doesn't get to hard of a workout at school.

It mainly is cutting open chocolate bars packaging; not a very difficult task but an all important one!
 
I'm an aviation Mech, I usually carry 2 knives. A spycerco lockback in my front pocket for work related tasks and a GEC scout in a pouch on my belt, and it is used for all food prep and consumption.
 
My mind is a finely honed instrument that I use to cut thru all the BS at work
My penknife is a finely honed instrument that I use to slice apples at work.

But for many years I was an electrician and carpenter and used a work knife all the time, from marking out to stripping cable
 
Easyrider said:
I'm a college student so my Copperhead doesn't get to hard of a workout at school.
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Me too. I use my mora and opinel for all food tasks, so they get used a lot. My slippies not as much.
During the summer I work on a farm so my blades see tons of use. I will be packing a slip joint alongside a fixed blade during those months. Can't wait to get out of school, the farm is where I feel most at home.
 
I work in a factory building woodstoves, gas grills, and gas fireplaces. Use my knives alot, from cutting poly, tape, boxes, peeling labels trimming wood you name it. Incidentally all our woodstoves come with paving stones (basically bricks of sand and silica) so if I lose an edge completely there are about ten thousand sharpening stones on hand any given time. Not the greatest sharpeners but it beats nothing at all.
 
I wish I could say I used mine all the time, but I don't...
I drove truck for a freight company for almost 14 years and used them countless times everyday. Now that I drive a gas tanker, there isn't much to cut.....
However when camping and hunting get started every year, the knives get a good workout. Kind of like a bird dog that just lives for bird season :D
 
Well my knives have it made. The easy life. I am disabled and do not work. And my activity is very limited. So the most exciting thing my knives do is open the mail. I look for other things that need cutting, but seldom find much. SO I sit in my recliner with the TV on and open and close them. Look at them. I have not started talking to them yet. LOL. I carry as many as 4-5 knives whenever I go out. No reason to. But if someone needs a knife, I am ready to whip one out.

Bill
 
Buck_Fan said:
Well my knives have it made. The easy life. I am disabled and do not work. And my activity is very limited. So the most exciting thing my knives do is open the mail. I look for other things that need cutting, but seldom find much. SO I sit in my recliner with the TV on and open and close them. Look at them. I have not started talking to them yet. LOL. I carry as many as 4-5 knives whenever I go out. No reason to. But if someone needs a knife, I am ready to whip one out.

Bill
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You should start whittling.... Great way to pass the time, get lots of use out of the knives and its really therapeutic...
 
"338375: You should start whittling.... Great way to pass the time, get lots of use out of the knives and its really therapeutic..."




I have been thinking about it. I need to look into it.

Bill
 
We have a great recycling program here. It's not mandatory, but everyone gets 40 gallons of free trash removal, after that you pay by volume, but recycling is free so most all do it to avoid the trash fee. I cut down quite a bit of cardboard and plastic each week. Besides that packages, mail, and all the wrapping they put on groceries these days. I do a lot of apples and other fruit as well. Gardening in the summer.
 
I am a cop and use a traditional knife several times a week at work.

I carry a tacticool model clipped to my pocket but in my shirt pocket there is always a traditional slippie ready for action.

Here lately I have been carrying a Case brown bone whittler with pinched bolsters in that shirt pocket. I use it for everything from cutting up my chicken on my salad to opening boxes, envelopes, packages, cutting tape, cutting cotton sheets, etc.

Why just this morning I used it to slice a big string off my Sergeant's uniform since he is always picking on folks about their uniforms being less than stellar.

For rough duty like cutting plastic bumpers off of cars and such, I turn to the Leatherman Surge that I carry on my belt.

I can't think of the last day at work I had where I wasn't using my Case for something or another.
 
I always try to make it a point to use my traditional knife at some point during the day. Even if it is the dumbest reason in the world. For instance, I used my Buck 110 to open up a pudding package while I was at work.
 
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