Most common material cut

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Got me thinking today, everyone always talks about a knife being a too slicer and all, but there's a difference between cutting Manila rope and opening a UPS box right? What is the most common material that you use your knife to cut, be it rope, cardboard, food etc.....
 
Urban redneck said:
Got me thinking today, everyone always talks about a knife being a too slicer and all, but there's a difference between cutting Manila rope and opening a UPS box right? What is the most common material that you use your knife to cut, be it rope, cardboard, food etc.....
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I cut mostly food mainly fruits and veggies.

However my edc usually cuts zip ties and cardboard nd sometimes food.

Other than that wood but not with my food knives or edc.
 
Smaller tree branches, drywall, hard wood whittling, and it's one heck of a putty knife for scraping crap and gunk.
 
mostly boxes and ropes.
I dont use my edc knives with food like some people I know.
seems abit gross to me considering it gets oiled pretty often and WD-40 doesnt mesh too well with steak ahaha
 
Cardboard boxes.

I order a lot of stuff online and I rejoice every time I get a package in a bag or padded envelope.
 
In no particular order, day to day stuff:

-Cardboard

-Tape

-Plastic packaging

-envelopes

- myself (not intentionally)





;):foot::D
 
Cardboard, leather, string... I use my knives for scraping a lot, like cleaning gasketed surfaces.
 
After myself? ;)

It would be have to be

  1. cardboard/paper
  2. food
  3. plastic/rubber
  4. leather/rope
  5. wire
 
I do lots of electrical work, plumbing, sheet metal and copper piping that must be insulated.....without a knife on me at all times all that stuff is much harder!
Cut most??? Probably flex duct and pipe insulation. Then all the boxes the stuff came in.
 
For me it is cardboard.

I open them at work, and at home.


At first I found all pocket knives 'too sticky' (can't find proper word) to go cleanly through cardboard.
so I have grounded off much of the shoulders off my sebenzas, convex them with polish stones, they FLY through cardboard now. Even the triple wall wax cardboard that heavy produce comes in.

Since I don't have to cut any hard materials like plastics, i can get away with super thin edges, though I have never chipped on plastic either.
 
Trimmed/reamed miles of pvc pipe in my more active days in the trades using an old Schrade 51OT and Buck 110... ;)
 
'too sticky' (can't find proper word)
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Thick
that's the word.

the best box cutter, and I have made it a hobby, is . . .

A box knife. And the Ferrari of box knives is anything with a .4 mm blade Stanley makes 'em.
I agree most pocket knives even when super sharp are just in the way cutting cross grain in corrugated, especially double wall, cardboard. With the grain there is more give and room for all that fire wood chopping / bone busting blade.
 
I cut plastic packaging more than anything else, with papers and fibers coming in close. Recently I've also cut wood, food and rubber. I prefer to avoid cutting cardboard due to the abrasives and impurities therein, but won't hesitate to do it if I have to.
 
Plastic, paper, tape, cardboard, line.

It really depends on the type of knife. The things I cut with folders are different than the things I cut with fixed blades.
 
Plastic. I trim the flash off of plastic parts all day :) It's always a pleasure to sharpen a new blade up to where it can trim the very fine flash off.
 
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