Have you ever actually broken a knife in use?

I ve used my knives fairly hard over a number of years and have never broken one. When prying lightly, I sense what a blade can take. So far. No lock failures, but I cut/slice with these as though they were slippies.

I can t recall breaking any tool.
 
My only knives that broke while being used where because I broke the "Never lend your knife" rule. I can't even blame the idjit that broke'em, just me for handing them over.
 
In the Army we had a SOG fixed blade for cutting stuff out of the tank tracks and other non knife tasks. . I don’t think it was an issued knife. It was a real workhorse. We beat the hell out of that knife. It was abused and finally broke.
 
Broke a standard rat tail tang Kabar one time while batoning on a camping trip.. Knife got into a knot and blade began to bend and bind up. Flipped and started to try and beat it back out, hitting back and forth on the blade and handle... the handle then decided it no longer wanted to be attached lol
 
My mother broke the end off of an old carbon steel paring knife years ago....you can guess what she was doing...

..stabbing ice with it. it was harder than the typical rada type knofe that she was used to and she used to complain that it was too sharp out of a mechanical sharpener, anyway.

Some decades later, I found a washita stone in my dad's hunting cabinet and sharpened a bunch of knives and specifically told my mother that we sharpened even the cheap ones. She cut herself within minutes. So maybe she was right - it was too sharp for her.

I've broken one laminated woodworking chisels - way different than knives. it was blue steel welded to modern soft iron - destined to fail as it was a type of chisel used for cutting mortises and it would get stuck due to poor geometry - just an all around expensive poorly made tool aside from great edge retention. One of the few styles of chisels where the edge retention doesn't mean that much.
 
I don't remember ever breaking a knife. I kind of wish I had so I'd have a story to tell. One time while my friend and I were camping as kids my friend broke his fixed blade by throwing it at a stump. We both somehow ended up with the exact same one. My grandpa gave me his and I'm not really sure where my friend got his, but they were traditional Ka-Bar style but made from some chinese company. We used to throw knives now and then and I remember when he threw it and the tang just snapped right at the guard we both just looked at eachother dumbstruck.
 
I’ve never broken a knife, i can be rough on my knives. My SwampRat MountainManDu is quite possibly the strongest knife I’ve ever owned. I don’t think I can actually break even if I tried.
 
jux t said:
Never rounder a cheap driver bit, dented wire cutters, or broke the tip off a razor blade? Blasphemous.
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I have rounded a cheap driver bit in the past. I guess that counts as a broken tool. Probably others I m not thinking of.
 
Once, and it involved booze, a 3 pound maul, a mora, and an ash split I was carving into an axe handle.
 
I scanned through here, and it doesn’t look like any one person has had a rash of failure. A lot of, my faults showing up. Mine was.
So I was in the garage and I wondered, how to think about these. They were junk to begin (or were they) but were once new, served as knives untill they were deemed unworthy, and made their way to my garage, AKA, the cave of tool doom. Here they have suffered unspeakable punishment as pry bars, rust removers, cut wire, in fire, in solvents I shouldn’t own, the list goes on. Yet, here they are ready to cut. They aren’t M4, whatever that is, or custom made.
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GmpaJim said:
I scanned through here, and it doesn’t look like any one person has had a rash of failure. A lot of, my faults showing up. Mine was.
So I was in the garage and I wondered, how to think about these. They were junk to begin (or were they) but were once new, served as knives untill they were deemed unworthy, and made their way to my garage, AKA, the cave of tool doom. Here they have suffered unspeakable punishment as pry bars, rust removers, cut wire, in fire, in solvents I shouldn’t own, the list goes on. Yet, here they are ready to cut. They aren’t M4, whatever that is, or custom made.
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Knives that are "real quality" do survive.
 
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