forgive me, for i am a knife abuser.

Almost all my older knives have been abused and a few of them have suffered mightily. It was always a case of necessity at the time and I only slightly regret the results. Hard used knives, like human beings, take on honorable scars.

These days, I lead a little more sedentary life so my knives don't get called on very often for anything outside usual cutting tasks.
 
oldmanrunning said:
Arch you opened up a sore for me .One of the first decent knives i owned was a 110 worn proudly in its leather pouch on my belt ,a work mate asked to borrow my knife,when he brought it back the blade was blued because as he said "it needed sharpening", i demonstrated my thoughts by tossing the Buck into the rubbish bin and expressing my feelings toward him equally forcefully. Ever since that day i work on the principle that "If they aint carrying a knife they dont know how to use one" and they are not using mine to learn on...
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Amen to that!
 
You are forgiven it was a dire time that called for drastic actions and your knife perform admirably. There is no forgiveness that needs to be given you are ok.

Now if you did this while in your garage when a toobox with a screwdriver was 10ft away than that would cost you 10 blade reprofiles and 20 sharpenings and may your EDC be with you always.
 
Sometimes you have to do it. Once upon a time in the Army I needed to get into one of our medical chests RIGHT NOW. The metal lid was stuck and no amount of finger prying was working. Out came a KaBar fixed blade I had and I pryed the lid off - snapping the tip off my knife. Sucked, but it was necessary. Gave me an excuse to get the smaller Pilots Knife I wanted.
 
Tools are used for unintended purposes all the time. No worries.

That said, every vehicle I have has a small set of vehicle specific tools stored somewhere on it. Some people I know have good luck and never have an issue with their vehicles. I am not one of them.
 
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