Heavy used blades (pics contest)

[Pietje010]

I like to start this thread to show your pictures of heavy used knives and blades at there work what they do best. Just to know how far you can go whitout really destroying it.

Post here your knife picture whit a totally lost coating, skinning a hog, beating up a truck or even prying open a nuclear blast door. Busse, SRKW, Ontatio, Ka-Bar, Becker, Buck, custom's, army-issued ones after your tour or whatever. This is gone be the threat for it! No NIB or behind-glass-knives here!

My Glock

 

[Eric Isaacson]

Okay, I'll play. Sounds like fun

While I do not consider this very heavy use they are the only pics I have handy. Here are some I took a couple of weeks ago while trimming some overhanging branches in my back yard. My Swamp Rat Satin Battle Rat was one of the blades used.

and one after the job was done. A little cleaning up and touch up with a sharpener and the Battle Rat will be good to go again.

 

[leatherman]

I attacked my old car hood with my Busse Steel Heart E-handle one day just to see what would happen, the only two things that were damaged was my hood and my expensive maul The knife had no chips or deformation, the edge is just a tad dull.

Through the center support, thick stuff, what started the maul damage

theres three layers here, see that threaded nut for the hood hinge?

A closer view of the attempted "nut buster" I hammered so hard that it took several chips out of the maul. no marks on the knife or the nut, darn hardened nuts.

I WILL defeat that nut someday! Just hide and watch! I will! Seriously!

 

[GibsonFan]

Hardened nuts, leatherman? you might wanna see a doctor about that.

Anyway here's my trusty K-bar, made from a blade and 'pakkawood' scales I got from Atlanta Cutlery way back in 1986 or so; my first knife project. Twenty years and she's never failed me Although the pic does kind of show what 20 years of being carried/stored in the sheath will do to high-carbon steel. I think it adds character.

The sheath is the standard one, with the big floppy belt loop sliced off and the retaining strap repostitioned.

The stones are just regular Arkansas ones. I honestly don't use the small hard one very often, the large medium one works really well. I strop on either the back of my belt or the edge of the sheath.

Low-tech as hell, and all the custom afficionadoes will laugh, but I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 to build it and she's served me well

 

[Pietje010]

Older Outdoor users. No shine on this fallers, even whit a flash!


Small user family. I could post a picture of my BK7 but that one is not ready used.

 

[Bors]

I got this one from my Grand Mother. My dad used it as a boy on their farm to split shingles hack brush cut wood and what ever else they had a need for. I have pretty much used it for the same thing. The spine showes a lot of wear.
It's stamped Old File Hand made. It's not really made from an old file thats the name of the name of the company that made it. Rugged knife.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

This one has seen a bit of use in the past few weeks.

 

[TDE]

man I wish my camera was around the other day. A kid came in the shop and asked if we bought knives, sure I said, until he pulled out his POS china and looked like he had ran over it with a car after it got pulled out of a burned down house after a nulcear war!

Paul

 

[JurT]

Here are some pics of my Busse SFNO's while being abused.

first my SFNO satin/snakeskin magnum handles:

Second my SFNO satin/black flat handles:

Have fun

 

[Vivi]

Exactly what this place needs. I see waaaaaay too many knives here that look like the only thing they've cut is envelopes. Sissies.

Here's my Buck Mini that's seen a lot of sharpening. Not so much hard use as it is a lot of use. Tons of whittling, cutting through wiring and other fun stuff.

Ontario SP Plus Bowie. Chopped down trees, swung it into concrete, cut metal, pried, hammered etc with it. One hell of a beater.

 

[Cougar Allen]

 

[Pietje010]

nice going Vivi! Beat them up, some knifes are made for that job

 

[cybrok]

I should post a pic of my SAK classic, the first knife that woth more than 4$ I sharpened. I should have wait longer, I totally made a crappy job.

 

[jimmyjones]

Here's my Buck Night Hawk, it's an LE, # 464/750. It was black coated.

I wish I could take close ups

It'll shave arm hair !!

 

[J85909266]

My Salt I I used every day at work for at least a year doing heavy cutting for exteneded periods of time.

 

[Vivi]

Into prog I see.

 

[Troy H]

This picture is pretty old. It looks even prettier now!

 

[Santi]

This's not a test. It's real from the field . . .

This is the knife:

It's forged 440-C, 10" blade.
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