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Living nightmare.
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Let's not go to page 9.
ok, page 10.
I'm only on page 5 but I have super secret powers so...
:foot:When you hard use your hard use knife too hard things can happen LOL:
No ragrets.
:foot::foot::foot:P.S: FWIW, in my experience, many non-knife people have laughed anytime I've shown them a knife without some wear and tear on it and essentially commented that I was just carrying it to show off a fancy blade... YMMV.
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I'm only on page 5 but I have super secret powers so...
When you hard use your hard use knife too hard things can happen LOL:
No ragrets.
P.S: FWIW, in my experience, many non-knife people have laughed anytime I've shown them a knife without some wear and tear on it and essentially commented that I was just carrying it to show off a fancy blade... YMMV.
"cobalt tungsten vanadium stainless steel", lol.
what happened to that thing anyways?
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I have to wonder why the OP left his precious knives where anyone else could have gotten to them in the first place. If the old man snatched them from out of the OP's pockets, there'd be cause for a fistfight right there, and the daughter be damned.
Yeah, but there's all the stupid questions you've got to put up with, like "What are all the cinderblocks and netting for?"
Funny, but too true. Although I'm from Maryland, land of the Chesapeake Bay, it was an old joke among the men, about taking your future son in law fishing. The Bay is a big body of water.
Father to weeping daughter; "I'm so sorry honey, but after that big wave washed him overboard we almost had him back, but there was that shark "
Yeah, but there's all the stupid questions you've got to put up with, like "What are all the cinderblocks and netting for?"
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Two options you have. A. Be the man he would want his daughter to be with and just forgive don't bring it up. Or B bring it up to him and act like a brat
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You forgot secret option C: drink all his beer.
Option D: raise the quandary on a forum dedicated to knives, what one should do when one's knife actually gets used.
Should one go into a tizzy?!?!?
Should one call his father in law a f$&kin idiot?!?!?!?
Should one get the blade replaced?!?!?!
NO. What you should do, OP, is sharpen your knife (DO NOT SEND IT OFF, DO NOT GET A NEW BLADE. SHARPEN IT YOURSELF). Then put it back in your pocket...
Then years later, when you're sitting there with that man's grandson (your son) jumping around you, asking if you can cut a tag off his new Pokemon ball, you can cut it and not have to worry about marring the pristine finish.
In fact, you'll be able to tell him how his granddad added to the character of that special knife you're using to cut the tag off. :thumbup:
You might not believe me now, but I've been in this game a long time. You wind up valuing the experiences you have with the knives more than the knives themselves. MUCH more.
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Ugh... this is still going? Get the blade replaced, that says something really bad about our society right now.
Could you imagine telling your grandpa when he came in from hunting that instead of sharpening his knife, he should just pay for a new blade? I think he would be so disappointed.
Could you imagine telling your grandpa when he came in from hunting that instead of sharpening his knife, he should just pay for a new blade? I think he would be so disappointed.
Option D: raise the quandary on a forum dedicated to knives, what one should do when one's knife actually gets used.
Should one go into a tizzy?!?!?
Should one call his father in law a f$&kin idiot?!?!?!?
Should one get the blade replaced?!?!?!
NO. What you should do, OP, is sharpen your knife (DO NOT SEND IT OFF, DO NOT GET A NEW BLADE. SHARPEN IT YOURSELF). Then put it back in your pocket...
Then years later, when you're sitting there with that man's grandson (your son) jumping around you, asking if you can cut a tag off his new Pokemon ball, you can cut it and not have to worry about marring the pristine finish.
In fact, you'll be able to tell him how his granddad added to the character of that special knife you're using to cut the tag off. :thumbup:
You might not believe me now, but I've been in this game a long time. You wind up valuing the experiences you have with the knives more than the knives themselves. MUCH more.
:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
Sharpen and move on with life, and way more important issues that will come up.
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I had a similar experience the other day. I'm a teenager so I was trying to earn some money doing work for my neighbor. He was helping out a bit too, and, knowing I am into knives he said, lemme see a knife real quick. I handed him my ZT 0450 and he started hacking at a pencil with it trying to sharpen to pencil. I knew it could take it, but I baby my higher end knives so it was a little scary. There were a few scuffs on the blade but it was ok
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I hard used it too hard LOL.
Pt 1: [youtube]gkUXB-G2EhM[/youtube]
Pt 2: [youtube]m31Wk6W5tK8[/youtube]
Pt 3: [youtube]_JHeol2rGJg[/youtube]
Man, that IS scary...
:foot: If it's such a high end knife why carry it?... Imagine if you had to actually use it for a tough cutting task LOL.
*Nervous breakdown ensues.
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I hard used it too hard LOL.
Pt 1: [youtube]gkUXB-G2EhM[/youtube]
Pt 2: [youtube]m31Wk6W5tK8[/youtube]
Pt 3: [youtube]_JHeol2rGJg[/youtube]
Man, that IS scary...
If it's such a high end knife why carry it?... Imagine if you had to actually use it for a tough cutting task LOL.
Haha I carry it because I do use it for normal edc tasks but never for hacking at wood and graphite [emoji23][emoji16]
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Sharpening a pencil is a normal EDC task IMHO; plain jane carbon steel slipjoints have been used for the same task for years and they survived just fine. :thumbup: I used my benchmade 581 to sharpen a beefy carpenter pencil and all the graphite "scratches" wiped right off without the slightest hint of damage.
The S35VN in that 0450 will hold up to a lot harder use than that; at least that's what my experience in using that steel has shown me. :thumbup:
:thumbup:The OP hasn't posted in this thread for the past 5 days (back on page 5), and it's certainly not the OP keeping this thread going. So I think it's kind of funny to suggest that HE "move on with life", because it appears he has. I think it would be more accurate to say that those who continue to criticize and mock the OP should move on with THEIR lives.
Just an ironic observation. Far be it from me to suggest that others give up their fun. Some people enjoy beating dead horses.
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I used to be the same. My best friend would come along and thrash it, whatever it was. Knives with dinks, guns with scratches, cars with smoked brakes. He ended up my best man. I don't lend him anything that I want to keep nice. If I did fool me for letting him get his hands on it. I know how to sharpen, buff out scratches/reblue, and put new brake pads on.
You only know if a knife is any good if you are still using it ten years later. No review can prove that.
Difference between a used knife and a new one:
Knives that din't survive abuse; have a few that didn't keep up with me over the years:
You only know if a knife is any good if you are still using it ten years later. No review can prove that.
Difference between a used knife and a new one:
Knives that din't survive abuse; have a few that didn't keep up with me over the years:
Alright, that made me literally laugh out loud."Get back here so we can tell you to move on with your life!!!"
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Sharpening a pencil won't hurt a thing. pencil lead is actually quite soft compared to a knife blade, and obviously the wood isn't a problem. Seriously, pencil SHARPENERS use razor blades made of worse than s35vn and they hold up fine. The scuffs on the blade are just powdered graphite and will clean off easily.