Dont cut this or that

Todd21969 said:
I take it we are talking about carry knives?

If so... Food.

My carry knife gets filthy from work. I don't like the taste of sand, stone dust, and hydralic fluid.
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Yeah.....soft cheeses (like adhesive caulk) are a mess. Floss and wire/guitar strings work great.
 
marcinek said:
Do they get hydraulic fluid on it?
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A small folder like a small trapper doesn't take up much extra room, so if you plan on cutting food it pays to carry an extra knife just for food.
So no there won't he anything on it, I almost threw up just thinking about it 😁
 
Zipties have caused me a lot of problems. Not because of the plastic itself but because of what is around it. A few weeks ago I used my then brand new Mini A100 to cut the ziptie on a new bike tire and was not as careful as I should have been and put a nick in the $50+ tire. A few months ago I bought a metal garden hose carrier that came with parts held together by zipties and I put a chip in whatever knife I was using. I wasn't being careless, but I didn't take into account the momentum and where it might have carried my hand.

Also, I used my Sebenza to open some chemicals for my pool and got some minor stains on the blade. It is a user so I don't mind too much.
 
Don't cut cardboard or paper, it dulls your knives. In fact, any wood-related object dulls blades and has sap and/or glue to gum up your blades.
 
Hickory n steel said:
A small folder like a small trapper doesn't take up much extra room, so if you plan on cutting food it pays to carry an extra knife just for food.
So no there won't he anything on it, I almost threw up just thinking about it 😁
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I take it you have never run a Hydraulic Stone Splitter at an open pit gravel mine?

I dump granite pieces, sand, fine dust out of my jeans pockets every single day when I get home.

Also, a burst hydraulic line is a real treat to experience. Wonderful smelling, hot liquid shower.

So...what do you do for employment?
 
Thing not to cut:
Zip ties with a metal core
Boxes that have hidden staples
Thick plastic packages that are heat fused together
Oakum
Ironwood
Fingernails
metal reinforced hoses
roofing shingles
drywall
your fingers (it happens)
 
KingMC said:
Don't cut cardboard or paper, it dulls your knives. In fact, any wood-related object dulls blades and has sap and/or glue to gum up your blades.
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Paper, cardboard and wood are the things I cut most frequently.

Things to avoid cutting:
-Wires that have electricity running through them (saw a Leatherman with a chunk burned out of the wire-cutter portion of the pliers from when the person who was supposed to turn off the power didn't...)

-Sheet metal; shears are WAY better for that
 
stabman said:
-Sheet metal; shears are WAY better for that
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Bahh..who has time to search for where the last person to use them left them. Besides they are dull anyway.

Got to agree on the wires though. Our panel boxes run 480. That will more than just tickle like 110 does[emoji6]


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Have we had enough fun? Some are trying to stay on topic and others seemed determined to derail from the start. Head back to W&C before bad things happen to you.
 
I worked with an Army Ranger for a while. One of his favorite sayings was "Ya' don't know do ya'".

I don't want to be offensive. I do want to communicate some things I have learned recently.

Cinder blocks . . . no problem.
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Wire ties . . . I bought / reprofiled / modified these two knives (the SAKs and the big Opinel ) just to specialize in cutting wire ties. Even large ones. It was an interesting study. Blows people away. I had a customer tell me "that little O' knife isn't going to cut this wire tie; I couldn't even do it with my ninja knife." I don't know what a ninja knife is but these suckers BLAZE through wire ties over and over and no rolled edges. Seriously. They are very shallow grind too. That's the secret to easier cutting of wire ties. On the SAKs the small blade or the large blade either one is death to wire ties. I way modded the grind angle from that axe grind SAKs come with. What's that for anyway ? ? ? ?

The knife that hates wire ties I was surprised to discover is my Spyderco Dragonfly. The XHP-189 chips a bit. Other than that I think it is my favorite steel.



 
I recommend never trying to cut fencing with your knife. Or a delica atleast.


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Hickory n steel said:
I defiantly get that.

I saw some tall thick weeds in the backyard that I figured I'd cut , and really wished afterwards that I would've just used the hoe.
I got the crap off, but was just an unnecessary pain .
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I cut whatever I need to.

That's why I have a knife in my pocket.....to work.

I am not too worried about:

Breaking it...a little common sense in it's limitations deals with that problem, but if I really need it to do something it wasn't designed to do, I will.

Blade chipping/folding...I can fix that.

Blade getting dirty/sappy/glue...not even something I think about. I use my knife to cut all kinds of weeds/wood/plants, and there is nothing I can't get off when I get to it.
Maybe it involves a little more work sometimes, but that never bothered me...

I can't properly show you how many layers of weed/plant crap are on this blade:

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Glass -While working we accidently broke a glass front door. I was cleaning up the glass and took out a knife with a Aus 8 blade to get some pieces of glass out of the door frame. The glass chewed that blade up good. The edge and the spine.
 
Todd21969 said:
I take it we are talking about carry knives?

If so... Food.

My carry knife gets filthy from work. I don't like the taste of sand, stone dust, and hydralic fluid.
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That's why I like to carry packets of lens cleaner with me. Besides getting my glasses clean, does wonders in cleaning up a blade after wiping the blade on my pants. Went to a prime rib dinner at a relatives church once. They gave us plastic ware, so out came the SAK. After I pulled my knife out a bunch of other fellas pulled theirs out to cut the meat telling me what a good idea to use the pocket knife.
 
You can cut cinder blocks and ibeams. You just need the proper knife.

Do you even Noss bro?
 
115Italian said:
Glass -While working we accidently broke a glass front door. I was cleaning up the glass and took out a knife with a Aus 8 blade to get some pieces of glass out of the door frame. The glass chewed that blade up good. The edge and the spine.
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I watched a video of someone talking about sharpening your knife in the field when you have limited resources available. In one part of the video, the person suggested using the edge of your car window (exposed when you roll it down) to sharpen your blade. I am guessing that the tempered glass is harder than the steel?

There were some tactical pens that also had a tempered bead for breaking windows. Must be strong stuff.
 
Don’t cut food with your work knife.
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Yah I been using this frankenknife for everything lately just to see if I need to grind on it some more and I was cutting up some food the other night and discovered dish soap had not got all the nasty old drag it in the dirt box tape glue off the blade. Yuck.



So I would say cutting up food is cool as long as you give the knife a WD-40 scrub, followed by an alcohol scrub to get the WD-40 off then into the clorox bath to finish sanitizing it . . . yah I know . . . by the time I did all that I would have forgot what I was going to use it for too.

I did buy this Lucky just to use as a restaurant knife. It could be longer but it is long enough for any steak I could afford. Works pretty well so far.

The one without the pocket clip

 
Sharp Steel said:
I watched a video of someone talking about sharpening your knife in the field when you have limited resources available. In one part of the video, the person suggested using the edge of your car window (exposed when you roll it down) to sharpen your blade. I am guessing that the tempered glass is harder than the steel?

There were some tactical pens that also had a tempered bead for breaking windows. Must be strong stuff.
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Lately I've been using my ceramic coffee cup to sharpen my Vic. Don't know if it would work very well on more expensive steals. I've also used smooth stone right off the ground, though I just managed to get a workable edge like that.
 
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