Knife Knut Vindication

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Just wanted to say hello, since this is my 3rd or 4th post. As a knife knut, I take a good deal of ribbing about always having a knife handy, and get the usual "who you gonna cut?" BS. However, today I was called upon to open 2 cans of chili and a can of beans at a picnic because we had a POS can opener. Kershaw Random Task opened the cans, but I now have a little sharpening to do. Nothing some coarse sandpaper and a sharpmaker wont fix. Anyone else have to use their knife to save the evening for people that usually give you a hard time about always being "armed?" For the sake of keeping this somewhat trivial matter separated from real emergencies, non-life threatening situations only please. The real serious stuff is on a whole different level.
 
I'm constantly surprised by the amount of people who don't carry a blade of any kind. I'm always opening cans or bottles,cutting string or stuff because I'm the guy with the knife [or 2 or 3 ]. The sad part is I work construction. POOL
 
me2,

You might want to get a Vic SAK to back up that Kershaw. With the SAK, you would have an actual can opener and could avoid damaging your Kershaw's blade. Cuts down on your sharpening too!:D

I really like the Vic Compact model or the Recruit. I usually carry one of these to back up my Spyderco Military.
 
Great story! Great post! I get a lot of that too...

"WOW! What are you going to use that for!" or any other of about a dozen things I hear all the time.

To answer your question...

I WISH!
I'm just dieing for the chance to be the guy that people previously made fun of me saying, "Look out! Don't piss HIM off" that saved their asses one day and shut them all the hell up!

I'm waiting. Someday it'll come.

Glad to read it happend to you though. I'll be watching this thread for other people's stories. I'll live vicariously through them until I get MY MOMENT!:D
 
- Surefire E2e-HA: finding my friend's keys in the movie theater (after he teased me about having carrying a flashlight all the time), fixing my friend's plumbing combined with my Leatherman, during a power outage to evacuate a building

- Leatherman: opening cans, tightening bolts and screws, opening bottles, makeshift grill handle while BBQ at the beach

- plain edge folder (depends on my rotation): opening those annoying hard plastic, vacuum-like packaging

So many other stories (if I can recall all of them). But since I use my EDC gear on an almost daily basis I can't possibly remember all the instances that I used them.
 
Originally posted by Screehopper
- Surefire E2e-HA: finding my friend's keys in the movie theater (after he teased me about having carrying a flashlight all the time), fixing my friend's plumbing combined with my Leatherman, during a power outage to evacuate a building

- Leatherman: opening cans, tightening bolts and screws, opening bottles, makeshift grill handle while BBQ at the beach
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Great stories, but...
and please don't take this the wrong way...

The point of the thread was that the original poster had received a lot of schit about carrying a knife and then was vindicated by using that SAME knife to help the people who had given him schit in the first place.

When was the last time you drew shocked stares and outlandish rude responses like, "who you gonna cut?" with a flashlight or a multi-tool?
 
fulloflead, the unfortunate reality is that even if you save their behinds, they probably still won't get it. I've been the go-to-guy whenever something needs cut for as long as I can remember, yet outside of my family nearly everyone just sees it as strange, not helpful. I don't get ribbed as often as others here it seems, mostly due to the fact that I live in a rural area and right now I'm in the Army, but it does still happen from time to time.
 
I have to say that from my own experiences, the great majority of city people don't see knives as tools. I used to show off my new knives to my co-workers but I stopped when I got plain fed up of listening to the "wow, you carry this killing instrument" comments (took too much strain to refrain from retorting: Good God, its a 3" folder thats half the size of your mamma's kitchen knife!).

And the next minute, I watch those same (clueless) people struggle to cut the plastic ties on boxes by sawing away with their keys. Most times I offer to help, unless there are one of those jerks around who will report me to the supervisor for "brandishing weapons".

Andrew Lim
 
Lots of people around my area of SC frequently carry a knife. Not, however, a full sized buck strider folder. I get my share of crap, until I have to use it to open a can, or as a small prybar. By the next day, unfortunately, they seem to forget and go right back to it....:rolleyes:
 
Regarding the SAK, I usually carry a Gerber Multitool to work, but thought "Nah, I wont need this." Oh well. Beautiful can opener on that multi. The Kershaw can be saved, but there are some small chips at the end. Nothing about 10 minutes with a stone wont fix. I keep reading about how hard it is to sharpen 440V, but I havent had any trouble.
 
I've seen several people at work jab and poke a packing tape with a pen or keys. Its like watching a fly bounce into a window trying to get out of the house.
 
My answer is, Don't help.
You're right, they don't seem to get it, why bother when "the guy with the knife" can help out. My answer is, use your knife for the stuff you need, when asked to borrow your knife or your talents, just say, "I just sharpened it, and I don't want to mess up the blade." THEN they might learn something.
 
Originally posted by me2
I've seen several people at work jab and poke a packing tape with a pen or keys. Its like watching a fly bounce into a window trying to get out of the house.
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I love watching people try to use a key, as if somehow it's supposed to cut things. One time at a baby shower my daughter wanted a balloon that was tied into a bunch of other balloons. As I'm reaching in my pocket to get my stockman, my wife's uncle hands me his keys, as if he was gonna save me the time of looking for my keys. Quick on the draw, he was. I just politely declined and cut the ribbon with my knife, meanwhile wondering just how annoying it would have been to cut that with a freaking key.
 
A month ago, I was at a picnic and I was the only man there with a knife that wasn't plastic! The rest of the guys were asking me for my knife. To make matters worse, I had to lend my Leatherman becuase there were no tools to put the grill together. I just don't understand why people don't carry at least a few light tools to make life easier. You don't have to be a paranoid survivalist to be prepared.:rolleyes:
 
SAKs are quite common where I work, there´s even a few multitools around (lots of computer technicians here), still I often see people cutting tape with fingernails or teeth, tearing open envelopes or calling maintenance to tighten a small screw somewhere.

Yes, I often use my knife to help others or lend it out, still I get funny looks when I tell a secretary that she could carry a SAK in her purse.
 
Me2,
Great simile! "Like watching a fly bounce repeatedly off a window to get outside" Too funny. I have to remember that one.
 
It is kind of annoying being "The guy with the knives."

Having to supply the cutting utensils to a lot of my friends at the college for various knife-related tasks gets old at times.

Of course, considering that my friends won't allow one of the guys to carry a knife because he randomly throws them (but won't throw a knife he has borrowed)--I'll maintain my sanity by loaning him blades to keep him from carrying them around me. :)

And as far as cutting things with keys go . . . I do quite fine with cutting when I drag out my keys. Then again, the keyring has something marked Opinel on it . . . :)
 
About 5 years ago I was at a music festival in North Eastern PA.

We were drinking :D and eating:D, and someone wanted a Bloomin' Onion, now for those of you who don't know what a Bloomin' Onion is, it's a whole large onion that sliced in a cross hatch pattern, perpendicular to the root, than dipped in a spicy batter and deep fried.

Than you dip petals/pieces into a zesty mustard sauce:) .

Well we decided to share it between 4 of us but everyone kept tryin' to grab chunks at the same time so I whipped out my trusty, recently sharpened, BM AKCK and with the plate in my hand, proceded to solve the problem by cutting it into quarters on the styrofoam plate:) , as I pushed the blade through the onion it met with absolutely no resistance, that is until it hit bone:rolleyes:. It sliced past the onion, past the plate, past my flesh, and halfway through my finger:eek: ,(did you know that alcohol thins your blood?:confused: . Needless to say that the trip to the bar was probably a bad idea before going to the hospital .

A ruined night out , 2 p*ssed of people(my friends wife and mine)and 8 stitches later, I was home.

Now everytime we go anywhere that they have Bloomin' Onions they ask to have it cut up before I get any. :(:eek:
 
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Good stories all around... I am very sympathetic. I work in a place where I really am the only guy with a knife available and people come to me all the time with all sorts of crazy random tasks. And I STILL get crap from time to time that I shouldn't be carrying a "dangerous weapon" around.

When will people ever learn that inanimate objects are neither good nor evil? :p
 
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