Managing without kitchen knives

There are often threads here about "if you could only have X knives" which often disregard those you use for cooking. I thought it would be fun to see if you really could manage with "general purpose" knives in the kitchen, the results are in the thread <a href="http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/002393.html">Two weeks without kitchen knives</a>.

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"All this takes only about ten seconds, and then I hang the knife vertically, with a nail through the thong hole (and that's one of the big reasons why most every LOVELESS knife has a thong tube; it makes things easy, handling the blades and knives here in the shop)."
- How to make knives, Richard W. Barney and Robert W. Loveless
 
Esav Benyamin

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Knives I use in my kitchen:

3.25" Opinel
3.5" large plain Sebenza
4" Frosts of Sweden clip point
4" Tapio Wirkkala puukko
9" Marttiini filet knife

Yeah, I use butter knives, too, but the Frost could do that, too.
 
Griffon,

Thanks for the testing! I'm looking for a straight-edged knife for the kitchen to be used in chopping cilantro and other stringy or weedy foods. I lent my Military to my wife and she said it was OK for cutting, but lousy at chopping, due to the curved blade. If you know of any "non-kitchen" (not normally or specifically meant for kitchen use) knife with a straight edge, in a 2 digit price range, please let me know.

Why not just get her a good kitchen set? She loves her beat-up, broken, nicked set. And I'm trying to get her to get a least a bit interested in MY kind of knives.

Any help would be appreciated. TIA!

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Champions make improvements as fast as losers make excuses.
 
A.G. Russell has his folding Hocho kitchen knife. Something like $65.00. I've been tempted a time or too, but haven't tried it out yet. It has a basic cleaver shape and should chop fairly well.

Phil
 
To Phatch: I agree, I saw the hocho and I wanted one! About a month ago I had a debate with ClassifiedOO. I went home for lunch, and started nuking a vege-burger. I opened a new bag of onion buns, forgetting they are NOT pre-sliced. The microwave was running, my hand was messy from the buns and I didn't want to go poking through the drawers. I did have a ATKO-8. I cut open the bun, and since the blade was dirty, I buttered the bun with it. Had a great lunch, and washed and oiled the knife later.
Well, Classified00 almost bit the ear off his teddy bear! I got a stern tongue lashing for using a tactical knife in a non-life threatening situation. If I'm hungry, that's a crisis...--OKG
 
OKG - Excuse the ignorance, but what's an AKTO-8? Thanks to both of you.

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