MANLY uses of your knife?

batosai117

batosai117

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We all have our favorite knives, our safe queens and the users. Most of us on this forum take good care of our knives and don't try to incur damage or abuse to the blades of our trusty friends.

BUT....

There are those times where something needs cutting, prying, scraping, poking, shaving, etc..

Those are the rare occasions where you get that adrenaline rush and volunteer your knife for a MANLY task. Not a manly task, but a MANLY task :D

This could be the time you needed to split wood right away for warmth/fire, the time you cut the seatbelt of a trapped individual, or the time where you just got the urge to use your knife for something that you normally wouldn't use it for.

I suppose for me, splitting wood with one of my folders is probably as rough as it gets right now. The time that I needed to use my knife for splitting wood was a few years back my friends and I were on the national seashore in South Texas for the annual Sharkathon. We were literally 40 or so miles away from the nearest fisherman, much further from any form of first aid if we needed it. One of our guys was stung really badly from a sting ray right on the heel. I grabbed my camelbak mule and ran over to his area and he requested some hot water to pour on the cut. So I used my folder to split up some drift wood that was lying on the beach, dug out a hole, and made a fire. I did this all pretty quickly and under normal circumstances, wouldn't have subjected my knife to such a beating.

So what task have your put your knives through that didn't involve routine cutting?
 
Epic, have never had the occasion where there was something so drastic. Very cool man.

Maybe not so serious, but it happened....
A friend of mine asked me for help with opening a box containing a fan she had just purchased. I snatched the monstrous box containing this beast of a fan and I majestically unsheathed my robust and mighty Sebenza from the brown leather sheath it laid in. Then deployed the glistening blade in such a smooth flush motion and penetrated the box which imprisoned the claustrophobic fan. Slicing a gaping hole on one end of the box with no mercy the box was defeated. Pouring out of the box came the fan and it's counterparts with much glee and relief. I had freed the fan from it's once eternal prison.

She thanked me and I left.
 
ZippoThisKnifeThat said:
Epic, have never had the occasion where there was something so drastic. Very cool man.

Maybe not so serious, but it happened....
A friend of mine asked me for help with opening a box containing a fan she had just purchased. I snatched the monstrous box containing this beast of a fan and I majestically unsheathed my robust and mighty Sebenza from the brown leather sheath it laid in. Then deployed the glistening blade in such a smooth flush motion and penetrated the box which imprisoned the claustrophobic fan. Slicing a gaping hole on one end of the box with no mercy the box was defeated. Pouring out of the box came the fan and it's counterparts with much glee and relief. I had freed the fan from it's once eternal prison.

She thanked me and I left.
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LMAO.....that sounds like a damsel in distress, so it counts :D
 
I love to camp, fish, hunt and hike so I have many uses for my knives.

While I'm doing any of those activities, i'll use them for food prep, splitting firewood, starting fires, cleaning fish, cleaning game, opening up cans and many other uses I can't even think of right now.
 
Pretty much anything I use it for is manly.
Only.. maybe... not if you cut open a box of tampax with a pink delica!
 
I forgot to shave one morning (or should I say afternoon; I work nights), so at a red light I pulled out my DDR HTM Gunhammer 2 and went to town. Dry shave. The driver of the car beside me was looking at me in wide eyed disbelief.
 
Minor:

Did a dry shave at work once with a Spyderco Native 3 (not while driving with someone watching, will have to do that in the future), used a Spyderco Military to eat steak in a restaurant, and opened a case of sodas where I accidentally gave a very fine papercut to two of the cans (I didn't think I had even touched them, using a brand-new Pacific Salt SE) that misted for a few minutes before anyone realized what had happened - my new knife's edge was very impressive, even to me.


Not-so-minor:

Used the pocket clip of a knife to hold up a girlfriend's home-made Halloween costume's skirt for a whole evening. Well, actually, the manly part was removing it later...


MANLY:

Sharpening about 20 different knives in a public place for a good length of time freehand and with a leather strop.

I was doing Hurricane Ike reconstruction volunteer work over Spring Break in college (yeah, I was a hard partier) and the group I was with from my school were staying in a relief-worker shanty town made of plasticized cardboard shelters (not structures, we were told) with a communal dining tent and kitchen and showering/toilet trailers outside of a local church. It was nicer than it sounds, impressive actually. Anyway, after I and others I had loaned my knives to had finished using my knives one particular day, I felt like giving them all a touch up and oiling (very humid there) and decided to sharpen all of the communal kitchen's very very very dull knives as well. So for most of an evening I sat in the dining area with people coming and going and hanging out with a full table in front of me full of knives, sharpening them on a DMT Diafold and a leather belt with some chromium oxide. Many people were quite intrigued and and impressed, especially the cooks the next day.

And this was after being the one passing out knives to everyone earlier that day. I think the only way I could have topped it would have been killing, cleaning, and cooking a wild animal over a hand-made fire.
 
So, what happened was...

I once scraped some dried poop off a heating block with my Case stockman.
Anyways, later that week, also with that knife (after disinfecting), I got the opportunity to eat with some dignitaries. I forgot my steak knife, so I whooped out my jack knife and had at it. I got some looks being that they were politicians and all, but no one complained :D

Don't know if that's manly, but it's my story.
 
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LOL these posts are hilarious! Not manly uses for my knives yet other than the regular wood processing.

I work in an office so if I flashed one of my fixed blades I'd probably be fired! It was bad enough getting the Cold Steel Recon Scout delivered mail order to my work address. I told my boss I was expecting it just in case something happened.

I just realised that's not very manly...
 
Here's my demonstration of manly use.. I guess :D

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I had to throw out an old throw rug last month. It wouldn't fit in the can until.......

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I cut the crust off a day old sandwich before with my Lawman. Is that manly?
 
I used mine when scrapbooking, to cut delicate pieces of fine Italian paper which I fashion into the shapes of unicorns and rainbows. I also use my blades to trim antique lace, which I incorporate in my side-business of designing wedding dresses. Sometimes, when I am restoring 1940's purses, I cut the threads with my knife. I also trim fabulous recipes from Martha Stewart's Living magazine, and open packages of sun-dried tomatoes when I prepare brunch.

I am way manlier than you guys.
 
powernoodle said:
I used mine when scrapbooking, to cut delicate pieces of fine Italian paper which I fashion into the shapes of unicorns and rainbows. I also use my blades to trim antique lace, which I incorporate in my side-business of designing wedding dresses. Sometimes, when I am restoring 1940's purses, I cut the threads with my knife. I also trim fabulous recipes from Martha Stewart's Living magazine, and open packages of sun-dried tomatoes when I prepare brunch.

I am way manlier than you guys.
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i used my CF military to cut a steak that was on the grill to see if it was ready to go...i ate the steak with the military...it was rare...

I gave it my best shot:D
 
I've opened packages of both panty hose and feminine napkins for my lovely wife with my manly BM 710 - woo hoo!

Stainz
 
I've cut my fingers, arms, belly and bounced a Spyderco mule off the floor, through my slipper and into my foot. Gone through boxes of bandaids.

I never even cried or went to a Dr. .....chest swells with pride....:cool:
 
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