MANLY uses of your knife?

Whipped out my Manix to cut a pit beef sandwitch at a Bull Roast and got a few comments but all good ones because my friends know me.:D Splitting deer pelvis bones with my fixed blade should be in the MANLY category.:)
 
Yesterday, as the sun dipped down over the Rockies I quietly made my way up my Mother-in-law’s imported tile driveway. The mansion she lives in is just far enough from the Jaguar so as not to be seen. I slid down under the car with a pen light and by Benchmade Grip 550BKHG. The hollow grind blade of 154CM was just the ticket I needed to accomplish the task at hand. It’s easy one handed opening would come in handy as my other hand holds the light.

When I identified my target I went to work. The action on an Axis lock is so smooth as to allow me to slowly open its razor sharp blade. It locks up BANK VAULT tight just at the right moment. I ponder my luck at having the TACTICAL black BK coating. Any unnecessary reflection may arouse the Witches my Mother-in-laws army of butlers, cooks and general utility staff.

With the Jaguars brake line cut I patiently wait as the news of the day arrives. A man size inheritance awaits my dear wife.

Wish me luck!! :thumbup:
 
I don't take my really nice knives out on the job most of the time. Even though it is made for work, if anything bad (besides earning a few work scars) happened to my 110V Shallot, or JYD II comp I would be pretty upset.

But there are knives that just scream to be used.

About a month ago, I was finishing up a siding/roof repair when a huge storm came up on us. Standing on the roof, we could literally see the fog wall of hard rain coming. We were going like hell, and put the last piece of vertical run 1X6 lap and gap siding up. I was ready to put the outside corner on, caulk it all up and get off the roof before we slipped off or were electrocuted.

By my helper shot that last piece on overhanging the corner (it was too wide) so that the corner wouldn't sit flat on the siding, making a large gap for the coming rain to enter. It was our last piece of siding so I couldn't rip it off. The rain started to hit us. It was where I couldn't get a saw on it, and didn't want to use an electric tool in the rain.

I pulled out my RAT1, kissed it good bye for what I was about to do to it and went to work. I placed the blade on the edge where the wood stuck out, and took my hammer and drove the blade down the length of the siding and it cut and broke its way all the way through it. Since I had to hit it next to the pivot (no open space to baton on the other side) I figured I would probably break the blade or destroy the pivot.

The blade edge rolled back a fair amount. The spine was rolled on both sides near the pivot for a little more than an inch. That was it for the damage. Pivot strong as ever, still locks up tight, and now has some pretty good use marks.

It took less than 5 minutes to re-edge and sharpen it, and about 20 to sand the roll over marks on the spine out. You can tell something happened to the blade itself along the spine, but you wouldn't think it had been hammered through siding.

My other work knife is my CASE peanut and it has a most important job. I keep the small pen blade sharp enough to shave, and use it to cut a traditional notch into the back of my cigars. It has never failed me. :D

Robert
 
no one had a bottle opener at a party i was at (how that happened i dont know) so i volonteered to open bottles with my poliwog. and i made sure i opened them because ill be damned if i'm letting someone else use MY knife for that.

also we didnt have a can opener so i used it to puncture holes in a can of pineapple juice to make drinks.

idk how manly it was but it pretty much saved the day.
 
A.L. said:
It's very easy! :p
"Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world"
"And beer"
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Lol. been using this beer bottle opening method for over 7 years now. It rocks, and mostly won't even scratch your knife (unless you have some sorta coating or soft steel).
 
my dad owns some vintage clothing stores and we were vending at an event. we tied the purses and stuff on display with zip ties but they forgot to bring scissors or a knife and guess who had their sak. me thats who. also we sold belts and a girl wanted one but it didnt have the wholes in the right places. guess who added another whole with the awl on their sak. me thats who. also guess who opened all the beers with the bottle opener on their sak? all let you guys wonder on that one.
 
In the 80s me and a good buddy EDCd Buck 119s,They were our beer bottle opener of choice.Why do ya think 119s have the blood grooves on them.
 
Leftoverdj said:
No tales of self surgery?
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I used the tweezers on a SAK to remove a splinter from my hand. A six inch long jagged chunk of cedar that went all the way through my hand. Then I poured 100 proof vodka over the bloody hole to sterilize it. At least, that's my manly story. Any talk of needing the magnifier on a Swisschamp to see the offending splinter is a dirty lie.
 
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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Felt just like a slap of bass and some funky whammy guitar would follow...
 
Cutting open MREs in Iraq and Afghanistan. :) Of course, my knife and I never left the big bases or the little firebase, so I'm still an Air Force wussie, but it was still the most manly thing my knives have done.
 
I accidentally used my Fallkniven bowie to almost cut my own foot off.

...is that manly?

...don't make me show the pictures agian.... :eek:
 
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