May you all confess your worst knife abuse

[EatingSarma]

I used knives to pry open paint cans, stab open food cans, used them to cut cables and wires, chopped brush and branches of wood, sometimes I'd chop into knots on purpose to see how tough their edge is, I even tried to pry doors open with a knife, stabbed holes through ice, dug and pulled nails out of wood with knives... the list even goes on but I just can't remember all of it at this moment.

And yes, I broke or bent multiple knives so far.

How about you?

 

[Jarhead Greasemonkey]

The choice was either climb back down off the roof that I ascended to without a ladder or use my ZT to cut through a bunch of shingles...

M390 is some tough $#!+.

 

[Venice]

Scrape paint chips off and aluminum frame. It's probably 40 years old!!!

 

[UDIVER]

I wouldn't call this "abuse" but I dropped an opened Para 2 in Maxamet on cement and landed on the tip......needless to say the tip broke clean off from the 3ish ft drop.

Highly doubt I will ever buy anything in Max ever again, such an overhyped disappointing steel.

 

[Basp2005]

Decided to modify a ZT 0560. Basically ruined it and it ended up in the trash. Stupid hurts.

 

[Black Oak Bladeworks]

I will confess I used a kershaw/emersan collaboration blade to pry a small block of wood out of the way. I broke it. I have also pried open paint cans and scraped paint. And maybe cut a few shingles in a pinch and some wires...

 

[Black Oak Bladeworks]

Decided to modify a ZT 0560. Basically ruined it and it ended up in the trash. Stupid hurts.

Ouch!

 

[CWL]

After hearing the claim "razor sharp" get abused over and over, I sharpened my Mora #1 to where I was actually able to shave my face with it using shaving cream. This was a real shave including under my nose & lips.

This took the edge angle down to low 20s and I pretty much ruined the knife because I removed too much steel.

 

[Silvanus]

With the same knife I’ve:

- Pried open a screen and a window on an apartment
- Scraped off burned on grease from a grill
- Chipped off dried DEF fluid from the opening of the tank
- Batonned the back of the blade with a rubber mallet to cut through reflective striping tape for commercial truck bays

EDIT: I forgot to mention what knife it was. It was a Strider SMF with a FFG blade

 

[Lee D]

When I was pre-teen I thought every fixed blade was a throwing knife. Broke several knives that today would be considered quite collectible.

 

[Centermass]

When I was pre-teen I thought every fixed blade was a throwing knife. Broke several knives that today would be considered quite collectible.

I was guilty of this then, too. Last ones I remember ruining in this way were my Western boot knife, knocked the wood scales right off, and snapped an old Camillus USMC at the tang.

 

[Skar]

When I was pre-teen I thought every fixed blade was a throwing knife. Broke several knives that today would be considered quite collectible.

Me too.

 

[steelhead seeker]

Used my native 5 lw as my work knife (before I lost my job because of the roni) in a titanium casting plant. Cut all sorts of stuff and used it to scrape slurry ( like concrete) splatter off my clothes. It'd get so dull i started using my work sharp belt grinder sharpener to sharpen it because it was fast. Ended up rounding the tip..plus every day It'd get so much sand and crap in it just from being in my pocket the action was always gritty .then one day at work figured what the hell. Taped the upper part of the blade off and threw it in the sand blaster and blasted the blade just for fun. Looks likes sh** now lol but I used it for years like that.. now it sits in a drawer..

 

[folder geek]

My worst abuse is not carrying some of my knives and not using them for what they were intended.
Other then that maybe stripping wires or cutting zip ties is about as crazy as I get.
I also believe in right tool for the right job and always carry a pry bar.
Cheers

 

[Smiling]

I used my Recon Tanto to chop bones as I don't have a cleaver, I scraped paint with it, batonned it just to see if it can handle it, and there was lots of prying too...

 

[cbach8tw]

When opening Christmas or birthday presents, or something in a clam pack, tried cutting the wires holding everything in place to free the items, obviously they had to be tied down so well for the long trip from China ...before realizing it was much simpler to untwist them or use needle nose pliers....and it dulled my knife badly, luckily did not chip. Also nylon zip ties, tough things. My dad was an electrical engineer, he knew how to use tools, and I can hear him saying be careful and use the right tool for the right job. Another time I used my slip joint to open a box, and went the opposite direction and it folded up on me and almost cut my fingers. Not a good way to learn.

 

[Shorttime]

Not carrying and using my CQC-7 the way it was meant to be used.

 

[Hal]

When I was younger - I tried to sharpen my knives - sometimes using a wheel chucked in a drill.
When I got older - I DID sharpen my knives - no longer using power equipment, but, the damage just took longer to happen.

Now - much wiser - I know the value of a steel, &/or a strop &/or ceramic rods (Spyderco Sharpmaker).

 

[Phoynix]

I used a mora to nail a strainer post support to a strainer post and then snapped it off and bent it so it would stay...(all on purpose it was to far to go get the right equipment that day and I needed it to hold)

Another time at my mothers she had a sprinkler(commercial) that had a corroded strap that couldn't be undone and any kind of cutting tool I could get wouldnt reach and my mother needed the sprinkler working ASAP. Hammered a Mora Companion though it and the damn handle broke, turned out the handle had a big empty cavity on one side and it was faulty from the start so I count that as a fault in the knife.

Moras have gotten expensive enough now I cant use them as wrecking knives anymore.

 

[Pomsbz]

In my pre EDC knife days I used a SAK blade to pry a nail out of a cabinet. Bent it quite badly. Many years later once I had the knowledge I hammered it back into place, reground it and it's now back to pre stupidity spec.