How long do your production knives last?

Eric J said:
I do. I like seeing old, well used knives.
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I took three pictures of it today at work, Eric. I emailed them home but the attachments didn;t come through in the email. I'll try again tomorrow. If you like Emerson's designs, you'll like this one :)
 
I've owned a few EDC knives over the years. I have a Buck that has lasted about 20 years now and it is still going strong. I pretty sure all my knives will outlast me and then my daughter will have a go with them when I'm gone.
 
I want to post a couple of pics of my BM 975. How can I do this?

I don;t have my own web page and it looks like I have to upload my pictures somewhere and then attach them here.
 
www.tinypic.com

After you upload it, you'll see some boxes containing different codes. The middle one with image tags (img) simply needs to be copied and pasted into one of your posts in this thread.

If your image needs resized, here is a quick way to do so:

Click start, then click run. Type mspaint. In paint, open the image. Press Control + W, then type in any percent under 100 in the first two fields.

Hope this helps.
 
Well, let's see here... For farm use, not too long. Two years maybe. Wore out a Case Sharktooth, a Case Farmer's Knife, an Uncle Henry stockman, a Puma lockback, and a handful of junk knives. Also lots of home made fixed blades that I cut from bandsaw steel. My Spyderco (Police? forget the model) doesn't get carried much now, as the lockback has become unreliable and lots of the teeth are gone.

There were other knives that I carried in school and such that I tried to go easier on, and they naturally lasted longer. I carried a Kingston WWII era metal handled GI folder every single day from second grade all the way 'till I was a sophomore in college, when some sorry bastard stole it. The edges of the metal handles had become completely rounded over from wear, much like many of the above mentioned knives, but it still worked.

I used to have an Ares from Benchmade that showed great promise. It worked good as new until the day I loaned it to my dad. I presume it's now laying out in the fields somewhere after being spread with a load of manure from where he dropped it in the cow lot.
 
Mercy. At the rate you wear 'em out, you must be second cousin to Cliff. :D ;)

If you ever find something that lasts, please post about it. I want one!
 
OK. Let's try this. My "old" BM975 left side
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Thanks VIVI ! I wanted to post two, but it looks like you can only post one at a time....or else I missed something.

Actually, the photo makes it look more banged up than it is. It's actually in decent shape for an 11-year-old EDC.
 
Stretch: I've got a Benchmade CQC7 Emerson - looks almost exactly like that (its about 10 years old). I've kept it in pretty good shape as well.

I've also got a CS Voyager 4" Tanto that I ABUSED when I was in the Army - its all chewed up - serration teeth (the small ones) all torn off - the remaining serrations are half eaten from doing quick and sloppy sharpening jobs - and I just put a razor edge back on it tonight - sharper than when it was new! I've cut wire and hammered things w/ the spine of it all the time -its all marred and dinged and scuffed - just stupid things I did to that knife - and its still going strong. Minus serrations.
 
I've been using my BM 710HS as my primary knife for over 6 years, and it looks like it will hold up for another 6 at least, probably more.
 
knarfeng said:
Mercy. At the rate you wear 'em out, you must be second cousin to Cliff. :D ;)

If you ever find something that lasts, please post about it. I want one!
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Actually after thinking about the above in a rational manner, i decided fixed blades would be the far better choice for the type of use I put my knives through on the farm. Dad got some Solingen (non stainless) blades at an auction once, and I put some walnut handles on them. I carried the drop point for about a summer, and despite some damage to the wood handles was still going strong after use that would have quickly destroyed any of the folders mentioned above. Then one morning, about 80 cattle got out of the lot, and I ran after them for about 3 miles (was in much better shape then) before dad picked me up on the 4 wheeler. I lost the knife somewhere along the way. So I started carrying a 6" bowie style blade then, and it also served me well until I left it sticking in a frozen straw round bale (after cutting through the strings and frozen layer- a job that we often used an axe or chainsaw for) while strawing the cattle shed. It's probably laying next to my old Ares out in the fields somewhere by now.

Actually, in folders, nothing has impressed me as much as the Axis locking knives from Benchmade, despite my complaints about the Omega springs. However, I'd prefer a tougher steel to be used on the blades. Since I don't get to help Dad on the farm as much these days, I've only used my new Presidio like one time for a job more demanding than opening packages. And then the blade chipped. Here's a link with the details if you're interested.
 
I had a Gerber Sportsman for about 8-9 years for an EDC, and really liked the knife. But... after innumerable biker flips, it wouldn't lock open anymore, guess that the blade lock became battered into submission. I gave it to a friend from A&P school as a keepsake because he admired that poor ole dawg.

I did find another slightly larger Sportsman in very good condition on E-gay last year, and HAD to have it. IMHO they biker flip like very few others can. They always seemed to be one of the "good" Gerbers to me, even though the styling is kinda "retro" today. I carry the "new" one occasionally. -FNR.
 
I still have a Buck 110 that I purchased before going to Vietnam in 1972. The knife should survive me in terms of usefulness.

-Dan
 
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