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Knife Uses
- Thread starter Rob Cude
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1. Opening boxes..envelopes..etc.
2. Peeling/cutting food.
3. Destroying every piece of paper I can find.
Bob
2. Peeling/cutting food.
3. Destroying every piece of paper I can find.
Bob
Usage of the knife depends on the knife being used....
The VG
1. Whacking things
2. Freaking the squares/security blanket
2-1/4. Klacking open incessently
2-1/2. Cleaning under my nails
2-3/4. Kitchen duty
3. Something to Dremel on
The Ascent
1. Cleaning under my nails
2. Cutting up snack food
3. Something to Dremel on
The old Kershaw FB
1. Winch Anchor
2. clean under my fingernails
3. Something to Dremel on
The Cetan
1. Cleaning under my nails
2. Boost self-esteem because I have a cool knife
3. Something to test my will power with by not Dremeling on it...(I would have a brigade of NorDooh wielding mercenaries after me if I did
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YeK
The VG
1. Whacking things
2. Freaking the squares/security blanket
2-1/4. Klacking open incessently
2-1/2. Cleaning under my nails
2-3/4. Kitchen duty
3. Something to Dremel on
The Ascent
1. Cleaning under my nails
2. Cutting up snack food
3. Something to Dremel on
The old Kershaw FB
1. Winch Anchor
2. clean under my fingernails
3. Something to Dremel on
The Cetan
1. Cleaning under my nails
2. Boost self-esteem because I have a cool knife
3. Something to test my will power with by not Dremeling on it...(I would have a brigade of NorDooh wielding mercenaries after me if I did
YeK
I guess I'll reply to this, too...
Well, up here in the Finnish wilderness, I usually need a knife to fight against wolf packs and bears (in case I run out of ammo), chopping wood and digging snow holes to sleep in. - Is this more exiting for you guys?
Ok, ok, ok. Seriously. My three most common uses for my folder are:
1. Stripping wire
2. Opening mail
3. Opening food containers / slicing food (I can never bother to look for a kitchen knife anymore...)
Aren't I a boring guy...
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Tony S.
Well, up here in the Finnish wilderness, I usually need a knife to fight against wolf packs and bears (in case I run out of ammo), chopping wood and digging snow holes to sleep in. - Is this more exiting for you guys?
Ok, ok, ok. Seriously. My three most common uses for my folder are:
1. Stripping wire
2. Opening mail
3. Opening food containers / slicing food (I can never bother to look for a kitchen knife anymore...)
Aren't I a boring guy...
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Tony S.
I'm constantly cutting the threads off the bottom of my fraying jeans....alright..there I've said it..I'm short...and my jeans drag.
I have long nails, so I do the fingernail thing too.....
And, I cut stuff out of magazines at the Dr/DDS office. Man, the look on those peoples faces in the waiting room!
And of course, here at the web there's always some flicking going on....
Danelle
[This message has been edited by djo62 (edited 09 April 1999).]
I have long nails, so I do the fingernail thing too.....
And, I cut stuff out of magazines at the Dr/DDS office. Man, the look on those peoples faces in the waiting room!
And of course, here at the web there's always some flicking going on....
Danelle
[This message has been edited by djo62 (edited 09 April 1999).]
Of all the times to ask this question, it had to be asked when I am working out here in this gawdawful desert.
Hard to explain "daily basis".
If we're not in the field, uses are the same as everyone else's.
1. Cut boxes, 550 cord, 1/4" cotton webbing. 2. Open boxes, mail, etc... "flicking" fits in here, too
3. Clean fingernails, pop blisters, and so on.
note: The existence of the "Jumpmaster Knife"
falls in it's own area. We don't fall out of the sky every single day, but, it is present on the guy who puts you out of the plane on that particular day. So, it has it's own use category.
When we are in the field:
1. The MRE* Opener. Period.
Anyone on active duty knows this. As such, the designation of any knife, on your LBE*, or in your pocket, becomes "hey, that's a cool lookin' MRE opener ya got there".
This is also where the "spreading of the peanut butter" occurs.
Does anyone want to argue this one??
2. Status.
This has to be the most common "use" of a knife in the miltary. "Cool Points" are awarded here for the "coolest" knife. This usually comes about when you're standing around, waiting for something. There is a lot of that, especially in the military.
For example: At a qualification range, we're required to wear our LBE's* and helmets. While we're waiting to shoot, you'll see anything from a Buck 119, to an MPK, to a Custom made knife on (or in) our LBE's*.
3. Any possible use you can imagine.
This covers making tie down stakes to improve your "hooch" (where you sleep); field dressing chickens, pigs and rabbits; throwing at a tree, whittling a stick; punching holes in 55 gallon drums to drain water out; helping open the wooden ammo cases at the range, the list goes on and on and on and on.
As for the * mark:
MRE- Meal, Ready to Eat. ha ha. Army food. Bwoodbury is the man who made these tolerable by adding Tabasco sauce. THANK YOU!!
LBE- Load Bearing Equipment. Now called a LBV becuause of the intro of the Vest. Just a name for the web belt/suspenders/vest used to carry your gear.
whew, I need more coffee, that was a lot of work!
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If you really want to understand something, try to change it.
Hard to explain "daily basis".
If we're not in the field, uses are the same as everyone else's.
1. Cut boxes, 550 cord, 1/4" cotton webbing. 2. Open boxes, mail, etc... "flicking" fits in here, too
3. Clean fingernails, pop blisters, and so on.
note: The existence of the "Jumpmaster Knife"
falls in it's own area. We don't fall out of the sky every single day, but, it is present on the guy who puts you out of the plane on that particular day. So, it has it's own use category.
When we are in the field:
1. The MRE* Opener. Period.
Anyone on active duty knows this. As such, the designation of any knife, on your LBE*, or in your pocket, becomes "hey, that's a cool lookin' MRE opener ya got there".
This is also where the "spreading of the peanut butter" occurs.
Does anyone want to argue this one??
2. Status.
This has to be the most common "use" of a knife in the miltary. "Cool Points" are awarded here for the "coolest" knife. This usually comes about when you're standing around, waiting for something. There is a lot of that, especially in the military.
For example: At a qualification range, we're required to wear our LBE's* and helmets. While we're waiting to shoot, you'll see anything from a Buck 119, to an MPK, to a Custom made knife on (or in) our LBE's*.
3. Any possible use you can imagine.
This covers making tie down stakes to improve your "hooch" (where you sleep); field dressing chickens, pigs and rabbits; throwing at a tree, whittling a stick; punching holes in 55 gallon drums to drain water out; helping open the wooden ammo cases at the range, the list goes on and on and on and on.
As for the * mark:
MRE- Meal, Ready to Eat. ha ha. Army food. Bwoodbury is the man who made these tolerable by adding Tabasco sauce. THANK YOU!!
LBE- Load Bearing Equipment. Now called a LBV becuause of the intro of the Vest. Just a name for the web belt/suspenders/vest used to carry your gear.
whew, I need more coffee, that was a lot of work!
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If you really want to understand something, try to change it.
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Wow, I'm such a loser! I NEVER get to cut any string!
1. Cutting aluminium honeycomb core for aircarft parts. (vanes, tabs, flaps, spoilers etc.)
2. Opening the mail.
3. shaving my dog's butt.
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I cut it, and I cut it, and it's STILL too short!
1. Cutting aluminium honeycomb core for aircarft parts. (vanes, tabs, flaps, spoilers etc.)
2. Opening the mail.
3. shaving my dog's butt.
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I cut it, and I cut it, and it's STILL too short!
Tobii3, I always thought MRE stood for Meals Refuse to Excrete.
Eat 'em for a week and tell me I'm wrong. I've also always figured that some glass bottle maker is getting R*I*C*H supplying all those teeny 1oz bottles of Tabasco sauce at tax payers expense. Heck, bad as those things are they oughta come with a freaking pint of Tabasco sauce and maybe some seranos and habaneros, too!
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Looks like many folks here ought to quit buying knives after the aquisition of a keychain sized Victorinox SAK Classic. I mean, if all you do with you knife is trim fingernails and threads......
Don't worry, though, my typical uses aren't all that glamorous, either. Here's what I do on a daily basis at work:
1. Cut insulation of all types from spray foam, to high and low density foam rubber and styrofoam to fiberglass from 1/2" thick to 1 foot thick. For some reason, even such soft substances as foam rubber dull a knife like you just would never believe.
2. Cut nylon wire ties and strip and cut wire from phone wire to coax to THHN and plastic weather tite sheathing.
3. Cut and prepare food. Cut more food. If anybody could ever show me a folder that could cut hard and soft insulation and strip wire all morning long, and still cleanly slice a sandwich tomato for lunch, I'd be interested.
Rob, something I no longer do much of that will test the heck out of an edge is cut accoustical tile and hard lay nylon rope.
mps
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Looks like many folks here ought to quit buying knives after the aquisition of a keychain sized Victorinox SAK Classic. I mean, if all you do with you knife is trim fingernails and threads......
1. Cut insulation of all types from spray foam, to high and low density foam rubber and styrofoam to fiberglass from 1/2" thick to 1 foot thick. For some reason, even such soft substances as foam rubber dull a knife like you just would never believe.
2. Cut nylon wire ties and strip and cut wire from phone wire to coax to THHN and plastic weather tite sheathing.
3. Cut and prepare food. Cut more food. If anybody could ever show me a folder that could cut hard and soft insulation and strip wire all morning long, and still cleanly slice a sandwich tomato for lunch, I'd be interested.
Rob, something I no longer do much of that will test the heck out of an edge is cut accoustical tile and hard lay nylon rope.
mps
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So it looks like the average urbanite with an office sort of job and a diet of prepared and packaged food could get along quite well with a Spyderco Ladybug or maybe one of those disposable blade box cutters, or an Umfaan or a mini auto at the higher end - except for slicing bagels and peeling/cutting fruit. Maybe some of us will start eating healthier diets to justify carrying our bigger knives.
I'm wondering if the ideal urban knife combination wouldn't be a 3" paring knife in a kydex sheath for food duty, plus a cardboard/shrinkwrap/mail/thread knife with a 3/4" Wharncliffe style blade, maybe in zirconium ceramic that will break if you pry with it, but just keeps on cutting and cutting.
Plus a cool sport-utility folder, of course! Here in Los Angeles you see a lot of cool sport-utility vehicles that will never meet a dirt road or snow, so I really don't need to justify the Spyderco Military or the Axis Lock in my pocket.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
I'm wondering if the ideal urban knife combination wouldn't be a 3" paring knife in a kydex sheath for food duty, plus a cardboard/shrinkwrap/mail/thread knife with a 3/4" Wharncliffe style blade, maybe in zirconium ceramic that will break if you pry with it, but just keeps on cutting and cutting.
Plus a cool sport-utility folder, of course! Here in Los Angeles you see a lot of cool sport-utility vehicles that will never meet a dirt road or snow, so I really don't need to justify the Spyderco Military or the Axis Lock in my pocket.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
1-trimming fingernails(several times a day)
2-cutting thick hose and webbing(several times a week)
3-just to have something cool to play with(hourly)
It is important to note that there are not enough hours in a day so I must do all of these things very fast and that is the reason I carry auto's. If that excuse works on you guys i'll try it on my wife.
Mike
2-cutting thick hose and webbing(several times a week)
3-just to have something cool to play with(hourly)
It is important to note that there are not enough hours in a day so I must do all of these things very fast and that is the reason I carry auto's. If that excuse works on you guys i'll try it on my wife.
Mike
I use mine on a steady diet of plastic skid banding, card board, and thin plastic film. So I need a knife that can take a very sharp edge and hold it in order to cut all of the above.
Regards,
Tom Carey
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Tom Carey
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DonL,
It's an old joke.
A thread a few weeks ago was asking how to test knife sharpness. I (along with several others) mentioned arm shaving and someone else said they didn't do that because it made them look dumb.
To avoid this, I said I'd switch to shaving my dog's butt instead of my arm.
Sure, it makes him look stupid, but HE doesn't CARE!
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I cut it, and I cut it, and it's STILL too short!
It's an old joke.
A thread a few weeks ago was asking how to test knife sharpness. I (along with several others) mentioned arm shaving and someone else said they didn't do that because it made them look dumb.
To avoid this, I said I'd switch to shaving my dog's butt instead of my arm.
Sure, it makes him look stupid, but HE doesn't CARE!
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I cut it, and I cut it, and it's STILL too short!
Hi,
Let me firts tell you how much I agree with dear James Mattis. Then I must tell you how embarresed I am reading all the uses people could made up for using an expensive knife.
That really shows how pathetic we sometimes all are (no offence here) in trying to justify our huge spendigns on knives even to ourselves (!!) and how we convince ourselves that they are quite usefull while they are not all that much...
I fully admit that 99% of my knives are bought only as collector's pieces and that a leatherman Micra is an overkill for most jobs mentioned here for us urban creatures.
I do agree that outdoors, sport and self-defence people have a much better excuse than us to own a knife - but: Who cares !!!
Take care
Let me firts tell you how much I agree with dear James Mattis. Then I must tell you how embarresed I am reading all the uses people could made up for using an expensive knife.
That really shows how pathetic we sometimes all are (no offence here) in trying to justify our huge spendigns on knives even to ourselves (!!) and how we convince ourselves that they are quite usefull while they are not all that much...
I fully admit that 99% of my knives are bought only as collector's pieces and that a leatherman Micra is an overkill for most jobs mentioned here for us urban creatures.
I do agree that outdoors, sport and self-defence people have a much better excuse than us to own a knife - but: Who cares !!!
Take care
Well the votes are in and I am testing at this time. I have been at my new house for a week now moving in and doing repairs on it for my family. Lots of cardboard, banding material, tape, tar paper and of course the nails. The knife I chose is the MOD Janich model, I have the auto and got a MA for the test. I should have the results posted in the next week or so and I thank you all for your comments. Check out the Testing area!!
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Blue Skies,
Rob
OEC
www.outdooredge.com
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Blue Skies,
Rob
OEC
www.outdooredge.com
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For most indoor work I use a smaller knife. Soon to be a Calypso Jr.. The small blade on a micra would be possible but much more awkward.
James, about the ceramic. While I would think it would be nice on most jobs (and really nice in the kitchen), wouldn't the possibility of the occasional scrape along a staple or similar be a problem?
-Cliff
[This message has been edited by Cliff Stamp (edited 14 April 1999).]
James, about the ceramic. While I would think it would be nice on most jobs (and really nice in the kitchen), wouldn't the possibility of the occasional scrape along a staple or similar be a problem?
-Cliff
[This message has been edited by Cliff Stamp (edited 14 April 1999).]
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"... the 3 things you use your knife for on a daily basis..."
On a *daily* basis I don't use my (primary carry) knife for anything but 1) a few drawing and opening exercises, 2) some dexterity drills and angle work, and 3) silent, "empty" conversation and living together. In a sense, it would not even have to have an edge, but then again, I would surely sense that.
On a *weekly* basis, I try to 1) dull my blade (or its duplicate) in a workout with my cutting dummy (some twisting included, thank you about asking about the purpose of the "duplicate"). Then, of course, I'll have to 2) sharpen it to perfection. Number 3) might have to do with something YeK mentioned, i.e., modifying/Dremeling the knife, though I must admit that a) for me, it's mostly just thinking about that, even on a weekly basis, and b) most of my Dremeling-drive is satisfied with something other than my primary carry knife (which at the moment is either a Spyderco Endura 98 or a Cold Steel 34 XC).
On a *monthly* basis it could get more interesting.
Sorry to be kind of late with my answer (problems in connecting to these forums) and thank you all for the excellent reasons to pass on to an inquiring LE or other Officer. I'll memorize them well.
Markku
On a *daily* basis I don't use my (primary carry) knife for anything but 1) a few drawing and opening exercises, 2) some dexterity drills and angle work, and 3) silent, "empty" conversation and living together. In a sense, it would not even have to have an edge, but then again, I would surely sense that.
On a *weekly* basis, I try to 1) dull my blade (or its duplicate) in a workout with my cutting dummy (some twisting included, thank you about asking about the purpose of the "duplicate"). Then, of course, I'll have to 2) sharpen it to perfection. Number 3) might have to do with something YeK mentioned, i.e., modifying/Dremeling the knife, though I must admit that a) for me, it's mostly just thinking about that, even on a weekly basis, and b) most of my Dremeling-drive is satisfied with something other than my primary carry knife (which at the moment is either a Spyderco Endura 98 or a Cold Steel 34 XC).
On a *monthly* basis it could get more interesting.
Sorry to be kind of late with my answer (problems in connecting to these forums) and thank you all for the excellent reasons to pass on to an inquiring LE or other Officer. I'll memorize them well.
Markku