Ever avoid using your new blade?

[KeithAM]

I use most of the knives I buy. Recently, I developed an interest in slipjoints, and I have set several of them aside as safe queens. They just look too nice to use!

I generally wait one or two days before I carry, use or sharpen a knife. This is because once you use or sharpen it, you really can't, or at least in my mind shouldn't, return it to the seller as a still new knife. I use this one or two days to carefully inspect the knife for problems that might warrant sending it back to the seller.

 

[RedEdge77]

I go through a period that it'll take a month to use a new knife on anything substanial. It usually spends time be cleaned and looked at it

 

[STR]

I guess we all to this to some extent. Kind of like a new car. You hesitate to put miles on it at first but then after a few dings in the mall parking lot and a couple more from the Wal-Mart parking lot you find it easier and easier to use and not think about it.

 

[Cobalt]

this is a good topic.

I avoid using my latest acquisitions, but once I start, I beat the hell out of them. So I only use one at a time until it is trashed and I move on to the next. I do this with everything.

 

[Lavan]

This is SICK! Why can't you guys all be normal like me and carry THREE knives? One to use for EVERYTHING (SAK Classic in watch pocket) One to use for real SLICING or ...sawing....(SAK OHT in pouch on belt) and one to pull out and LOOK at just cuz it's neat (BM 910 PE Stryker)

Now THAT'S ....normal.

 

[GarageBoy]

I brought a used Spyderco ParaMillie and just use that, since, a, it's prebroken in and PERFECT, even with a tip that's a little off

 

[Metro]

This is SICK! Why can't you guys all be normal like me and carry THREE knives? One to use for EVERYTHING (SAK Classic in watch pocket) One to use for real SLICING or ...sawing....(SAK OHT in pouch on belt) and one to pull out and LOOK at just cuz it's neat (BM 910 PE Stryker)

Now THAT'S ....normal.

Thats what I have been doing!!! I now carry either my Buck 110 or Gerber on my belt, my new Camillus in my right hand pocket and my S&W in my left hand pocket, I was carrying them together in one pocket but it looked like the S&W might bump and scratch the Camillus so I switched it over next to the cell phone . I pulled the Camillus yesterday to show to my boss and the only cutting it did was a little hair off my arm as a demonstration . It's already got a few knicks on the back edge of the blade from dropping it (god I'm a dumb bastard!! ) so I think next week it'll see some action, plus I already have my eye on a Benchmade.

 

[analogone]

One thing I always try to avoid cutting with my knives is sticky tape. At work I have to open a lot of boxes, and I use my box cutter for that. If I don't have my cutter handy, which is rare but it happens, I use my knife. I hate how the adhesive from the tape sticks to the blade.

Rick

 

[Psychopomp]

If you are losing the edge after 1 swing, you need a better knife.

Or you need a different edge. A hard use fixed blade has no use for a razor edge. Reprofile those things to a more obtuse angle and you'll get better results and longer edge life.

My knives get used. I got my Native a week and a half ago and have EDC'd it everyday. But I thought it looked a little silly with it's perfect finish on the pocket clip. Finally got a few scratches on it yesterday when I had to get in the floor to restart a register. Now it looks a lot better.

You'll be a proud papa when your shiney new Buck 110 shows some wear and tear. But keep it well maintained and it'll last forever. Here's a picture of my very first 110 (I got it in 87, but it was made in 73), the blade is still full despite 18 years of use on my part (32 years of use overall... my grandfather gave it to me).

Use them and enjoy.