"It's a knife, bonehead!"

I always wonder what they mean by hard use. Then I read their post and realize that what they really need is a hatchet or saw. Good post jackknife. As usual I enjoyed the read.
Jim
 
That was a great story !! My grandpaw told me a knife was for cutting and nothing else. He said if I catch you using it as a screwdriver,I'll un-screw you !!! And that was enough for me. Thanks for sharing.

Jason
 
Wonderful thoughts as usual Carl!

A hard use knife is exactly what your Dad, and Mr Van had, IMNSHO. A knife that was used with care, but used when needed, regaurdless of the Cutting task.

A knife used to cut things, but to cut whatever comes along.... One cutting TOOL is all ya need for life, short of chopping wood. Be it opening your mail, whittling for fun or work, cutting up your dinner, stripping wires, or even to make tinder and split light kindling...

Unlike the seemingly average (or is it modern?) knife that never cuts more than paper opening mail... if ever that. If its ever used at all. A babied hardly used knife where someone says " No, it'll get dirty!" or "No, it might dull it!"

G.
 
Great job as normal Carl. My roommate is a bone head who uses her knives for EVERYTHING I try to teach her but she always tells me to shut up. A nasty cut one of these days will hopefully be her wake up call!
 
I know, I've gotten my shares of smacks in the back of the head, not to mention a few belts taken off.
 
i remember telling my brother & one of his friends how pleased i was with the edge durability of the Eye brand folders in the 70s. they laughed & said those were sorry knives since they broke the tips off a few opening the pop tops on beer cans.it was a long time before my cardboard cutting tests proved to those guys the greatness of the Eye carbon steel. eventually they learned to cut & not pry. thanks jackknife for reminding many of us especially the newbies what a knife was made to do. dennis
 
My dad gave me the same lecture when I was a lad. I had many smacks to the back of the head (playful smacks mind you). I'm not sure if the knife lecture was preceded by the head smack or not .... ;)
 
I have discontinued the use of multitools for a 4" craftsman crescent wrench
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I just got a Victorinox Spirit, and I was thinking about what the old timers would have thought about such a tool. I wonder if they would have appreciated it, or if a choice such as yours is more in line with it.
 
kozak6 said:
I just got a Victorinox Spirit, and I was thinking about what the old timers would have thought about such a tool. I wonder if they would have appreciated it, or if a choice such as yours is more in line with it.
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There were some multitools around, even back then. During WW2 some knive/tools were made with wire cutters, files, and such. They were some of the OSS 'escape" knives. In the 50's there were some plier-knife tools around, but never gained much popularity.

For some reason, most of the old timers seemed to preffer seperate tools for the use. Lind of a 'knife is aknife and a tool is a tool' thinking. The most they would compromise was the scout knives and the old TL-29.
 
Well said, my dad taught me the same. When I was in the service the mult-itool was coming into fashion, had an E.O tell us that "your Leatherman is not a tool box".
 
My dad told me several times not to pry with the blade, but never really yelled. Then one day I was opening a can and stuck the blade of my knife in and pried on the lid to open it and snap. Dad just looked over and said that is why you don't do that and went back to reading a paper, and mumbled through the paper that he guessed that I would need to do a bunch of extra chores, happily, if I wanted to get another knife in the future. Steven
 
HEREHERE! BRAVO and all that stuff! You're a Bladeforums treasure Carl. ;)


PS...Why am I tempted to start the thread, "It's a bone, KnifeHead!" :D
 
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