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SycoticSamurai

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What is the most damaging thing you've ever done to a knife?
Personally, I accidentally sheared the blade of a Buck Nighthawk (I know they suck, but this is when they first came out and I was testing
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Thanks for the feedback,

Joe

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"I can go over to your mama's house, and start a small fire in her panties." -G. Busey
 
Probably the most damaging thing I've ever done to a knife was when I dropped my leatherman (whose blade was locked open) point first onto a hard floor- serious tip damage!

p.s. Samurai, I like your signature!

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"I'm out there Jerry and I'm lovin' every minute of it!" - Kramer
 
well today I was adjusting some over tightened handles after a re-pin on a cheapie balisong, and stuck the blade in the hardy hole of my anvil and just flexed the blade a little and just snaped the blade where it says jaguar and surgical steel
 
I abuse my knives quite regularly, but they seem to suffer no damage.
The most damaging thing I ever did was attempt to resharpen a John W Smith Tanto folder on my then new Lansky system. I didn't realize it, but I was dragging the blade accross the metal holder as well as the stone. This caused numerous very deep scratches all over the blade, in my opinion ruining a $400 custom!

I have since learned to use the system more effectively...

Take Care,
Al
 
Oh man is this my kind of post!!! I have personally destroyed 1 Endura, broke the tips off of 4 others, f*cked up a Native and tortured a XL Voyager Tanto beyond what most people would consider "nice". The Endura I destroyed was my first, sweet knife except for the weak ass tip, I threw it like it was a throwing knife...I mean I threw it at EVERYTHING, once you get the technique down it was a good thrower. I threw it so much it was jamed open. I also used and abused it out in the woods when I would hunt. After it jamed, I decided to see if I could break the handle of, or snap the blade...so I hammered it into a ply-wood floor and smacked it with the hammer...needless to say, the blade broke. The other Enduras were "normal" users, but all the tips still broke.

The Native...oh the Native. Quite possibly the worst knife I have ever owned. Listen to this torture during my FIRST WEEK of ownership:

I was working out side, used the Native then dropped it into a chunk of wood while I was doing something else, bent the tip. Tried to straighten using light pressure...broke the tip. Dropped it open on the groud, chipped the blade. Besides that the action SUCKED, that knife was/is stiff. Not my style.

Voyager...hell of a knife for the price...to bad it's Zytel! There is not much I have not done to this knife. I have opened several coffee cans, thrown it like my first Endura, pried my cardoor (at the top) open so I could unlock it with a coat hanger, dug a huge rock out of the ground with it and used and abused it out hunting. Great knife for the price, and a hell of a tip.

That's just some folders, don't ask about my Strider WP!
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Thats the fun I've had. Whose next!!!!

Jared

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Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?

I hope that after I die, people will say of me: "That guy sure owed me a lot of money."

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The most damaging and STUPID thing was use a Korean vintage KA-BAR for a throwing knife - it snapped into two halves! probably the second was to forget to respect the sharpness of a blade .. i carry band-aids to knife shows!
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You are very tough, guys... The one and only thing I have managed to "do" with my knives is choping some "teeth" on Gerber EZOut during paint can opening.
Regards,
MIKLE
 
I was removing shower stall tiles, and used my SOG Government to dig out the grout before realizing that them tiles are ceramic. The tip looked like I'd been at it with sandpaper.

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"That which does not kill me just postpones the inevitable."
 
There I was...
Admin bivouac in the woods of MCB Quantico, Va. The temperature was in the mid teens with a wind chill to boot. The powers that be make the command decision that some small fires would be acceptable under the circumstances. I volunteer to collect some firewood for our platoon in the hopes that the exertion may bring my core body temp somewhere back up into the 90 degree range. Grab my trusty M-16 bayonet (does this even qualify as a knife?), stumble off into the pitch black and find an appropriately sized, dead branch to start hacking on. On about the third of fourth swing I hear a distinct twanging sound with an almost musical pitch and detect a sudden serious shift in the natural balance of my bayonet. To make a long story short I never found the upper six inches of the blade (or even bothered to look for that matter). In fact there was just barely enough of the blade left to hold the handle in the hard plastic sheath. Needless to say I had alot of explaining to do to the supply clerks. I also purchased my first K-bar at the PX that weekend. Ever since that incident I've been more than happy to espouse the virtues of equipment manufactured by the lowest bidder to whomever will listen.

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Semper Fi
 
Jared--

Impressive. I've finally found someone who treats tools worse than ME.

As an old teacher once told me, and I pass on to you, "Your skills are complete! You are powerful, as the Emperor has foreseen..."



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An optimist thinks he lives in the best of all possible worlds...a pessimist is sure of it.
 
Geez, You guys are BRUTAL!! And here I thought I was really abusing my Delica a few days ago by using it to cut some chocolate cake at an office party!
 
I was grabbing my new Endura (read: scarry sharp) by the Spydie hole and flicking it open when my right hand slipped. I still don't know exactly what happened, but I found the knife stuck point down in the kitchen floor with the tip broken and my left index finger was bleeding like a broken faucet. My 4 year old son was looking at me like I had 3 eyes.

I ground the tip back to a point.
The finger healed.
Life goes on.

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Brad Mixon-
Flick, Click, Snap!
Flick, Click, Snap!
Flick, Click, OUCH!!!!!!

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I drove the tip of one of my throwing knives into the top of my workbench (topped with steel plate 3/16" thick). The only thing damaged was the table.
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Barry
Jones Knives

Do you hear that?
That is the sound of inevitability.
 
Had to stab a car once, but there wasn't any real dammage to the knife.

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"I can go over to your mama's house, and start a small fire in her panties." -G. Busey
 
SycoticSamurai,
Had to stab a car once, but there wasn't any real dammage to the knife.
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You gotta tell us, why did you have to stab a car, and was it a killing stroke, or did you merely wound the beast?
Dave


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You ever KNOW you're doing something you shouldn't be doing with a knife? I can't help myself. Throwing knives that aren't meant to be thrown is just terribly hard for me to stop myself from doing. Gerber MKI and CS Voyager, I'm so sorry for the loss of your tips.
 
The most upsetting one was droping a Microtech L-udt over-board. The dumbest may have been using a randall dive knife to open sea urchins to check their roe. and using a rock as a work surface. No the dumbest is handing a knife to someone who asks the question "do you have a knife or something?"
 
The worst things done to a knife of mine?
* loaned a BM CQC7 to my partner, he broke the tip off prying open a locked drawer
*broke the jaws of my Supertool prying out a hinge pin
*a different partner arced electricity across the straight blade of my Wave, which required factory repairs

I don't loan my babies out anymore.
Later, Jeff B

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Knife Medic "Weilder of Fingerdicer,Healer of Minor Owies,Instigator of Laughter"
 
My swisstool has a beautiful speckled pattern on the jaws from some glacial H2SO4, and my native has a nicely coloured tip, and some speckles fromt he same material. The tip colouring is mostly hidden by things pokeing it in fires and candles has done. My lost gerber looked similar, and had many more nifty colourations, and had some unintended, improvised, spot weld marks.

I did break the handles off a steel frame hatchet I have throwing it, but the thing sharpens up so easily, I never worried about sticking it in odd and assorted things...

Stryver
 
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