I NEED to cut more. Ideas?

CrimsonTideShooter

CrimsonTideShooter

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So I get a good bit of enjoyment from actually using my knives. Lately it seems like I'm not getting to use my knives as much as I'd like. I cut food, open packages, cut string, and some other mundane EDC tasks, but I want MORE!

Let's pool together some ideas on more things to cut throughout the day. I'm sure that all of us combined can come up with enough ideas to keep us cutting for a long while. :thumbup:
 
Seems like ever since my 7mo. old was born, cardboard boxes have been a steady diet for my edc blades.
 
Take up whittling?

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Cool! How in the world did you do those chains?

Also, if I don't have any access to the wilderness right now, where do I get some wood to whittle on?
 
CrimsonTideShooter said:
Cool! How in the world did you do those chains?

Also, if I don't have any access to the wilderness right now, where do I get some wood to whittle on?
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lowes sells cedar and poplar pretty cheap. depending on your area you might scout log sections that someone chainsawed and sitting on the side of the road. i hike frequently and there's tons of them especially after a storm. i take home some of these logs to satisfy my need for chopping and burn them in my fire pit in the backyard.
 
The ball in a cage in a cage and the three balls in one cage were basswood carving blocks from Hobby Lobby. The rest of those are lumber scraps and random sticks I picked up under trees. I live in southwest Kansas, where trees are alien life forms, roll-off curbs are called hills and square curbs are called cliffs. ;) If I can find sticks here, you should be able to find them most anywhere.

As for how to do the chains, I just started at one end of the stick and carved a link, then another and another until it became a chain. :D Seriously, you can google whittling chain and find tutorials that can explain it better than I can.
 
I'd be more interested in a job that specifically calls for a knife to be used daily:thumbup:. Thus far, such a job has eluded me. Produce was a far cry from it given that trimming and processing makes up for 1% of the work I do, and the other 99% of my time is spent in front of a cash register. Meat cutting sounds pretty close, though I'd have to use fixed blades, leaving my folders with no love:(.

I was thinking about trying to be an electrician, but curiously, almost all the local colleges don't seem to offer the classes.
 
yablanowitz said:
The ball in a cage in a cage and the three balls in one cage were basswood carving blocks from Hobby Lobby. The rest of those are lumber scraps and random sticks I picked up under trees. I live in southwest Kansas, where trees are alien life forms, roll-off curbs are called hills and square curbs are called cliffs. ;) If I can find sticks here, you should be able to find them most anywhere.

As for how to do the chains, I just started at one end of the stick and carved a link, then another and another until it became a chain. :D Seriously, you can google whittling chain and find tutorials that can explain it better than I can.
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There is a hobby lobby right up the road from me. I know what I'm doing tomorrow!

I'm excited. I've been wanting to learn how to whittle for a long time. :D:thumbup:
 
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