How Often do You use Your Pocket Knife?

How often do you use your pocket knife?

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Honestly the best ROI out of a pocket knife is a swiss army kife. I carry a folding knife and a SAK, but the SAK gets used several times a day. There are days I don’t use the folding knife at all. Interestingly, the blade and the can opener (as a Phillips screwdriver) get used most.
 
I voted 3 to 5 times a day for a weekly average. At work, I use multiple times a day. On the weekends, not so much as others have stated.

Like many of here at BFs, it as normal as carrying a wallet and cell phone nowadays.
 
gazz98 said:
I voted 3 to 5 times a day for a weekly average. At work, I use multiple times a day. On the weekends, not so much as others have stated.

Like many of here at BFs, it as normal as carrying a wallet and cell phone nowadays.
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I agree, sometimes it's used all day at work, others it only comes out once or twice.
 
If I take 5 bales of hay out to the sheep and, for each bale, take a knife out of the sheath, cut two strings, and put the knife back in the sheath, is that 1 use or 5 uses or 10 uses?
If I cut 50 zip ties to replace one tarp on a shelter, is that 1 use or 50 uses?
If I take a knife out of my pocket and hand it to my wife to open 6 packages from ebay, is that 0 uses, 1 use, or 6 uses?
 
My Opi 6 2-3 times a day. The Alox Electrician 2-3 times a week. If I have a lambsfoot on me or a Hawbaker it might get used in place of the Opi once or twice a day.
 
3-5 times a day, but sometimes more; although sometimes that one time a day is it being used for an hour or several hours. It really depends on the tasks of the day. Having a folder designated for the kitchen to process packaging and to keep people from dulling kitchen knives on packaging, means a lot of regular knife use even if I'm not receiving shipping or cutting cardboard to make Frankenstein's box to fit outgoing shipping, or working outside in the yard. I also like to keep a long slicey knife on hand for processing things like cantaloupes for the chickens, after getting into a food for agriculture program with a local grocery store to snag things that they're going to toss and save me money on chicken chow. My new Opinel No.15 Slim has been handy for cutting small melons.

Having designated folders and fixed blades in work station mode, for every room and shed, means I use my knives more, but also that I'm not using improvised tools because there's no knife within reach. The less expensive folders and fixed blades are the ones used in work stations, except at my desk, which is more of an EDC staging area of around 20ish knives from my collection. The Ontario Rat1 currently rotated in as the kitchen folder is receiving rave reviews from my lady, compared to the Real Steel Luna Lite and the Ka-Bar Dozier that were previously in the kitchen.
 
Aside from my work, where I cut carpet and floor tiles all day long, using snap-off blades...

Anytime I decided to not keep a knife on me, I would unavoidably need one, but when I have one, I almost never need to use it.
 
Once or twice a day for me too, but that once or twice, it's really irritating if I don't have one. Most of the time it's just the frustrations of our modern, pre-packaged society. Scissors would be just as effective, and I never have easy access to those, either. At least I can clip a knife to my pocket.

Sometimes, a knife is the only tool. If I'm stripping anything larger than about 8 AWG, it's just easier.
 
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