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Good post.Actually, I would.
In fact, I have.
It didn't look extra pretty, but it still tasted good.
I often like the extra challenge involved in using a brutally overbuilt knife for delicate tasks.
Living in North America, life is generally pretty damn easy...have to make it more challenging somehow.
. All my knives are users but I have never deliberately “abused” one. My knives, most of the times, cut stuff; a rather various pool of materials during the day. Sometimes, anyway, when I really lack the “right tool for the right job” and the job has to be done nevertheless on spot, they also do something different than pure cutting. It can be e.g. removing a staple, prying something open, piercing/stabbing through something, etc. I still consider these as plausible foreseen uses of my blades., I also need to mention I don’t own knives more expensive that 250-ish EUR; this is a kind of personal set price limit for cutting tools. Beyond that, I would start consider them something else than pure cutting tools and, likely, my behaviours towards them would change, for the ones I have in front of e.g. art pieces, etc.. I imagine that for collectors and for all those in the hobby who primarily buy and sell, this wouldn’t probably apply but, for me, to use the knife I have chosen to buy in its relevant context it’s very important. For me, a knife that is marketed as “survival knife”, need to perform in the outdoor activities, as well as a knife marketed as a “gentleman” knife, need to perform in EDC light/medium cutting tasks and food prep. So, in this respect, my knives might, more than occasionally, “take a beat”, if, with this expression, we mean using them to the full scope and extent, according to what they are designed/marketed for.. In my opinion, when hiking/camping there are many aspects of a knife that come into play only in that specific context. Then I might realize that those handle scales with a texture which looks so nice, wonderfully aggressive and coarse under a spot light on a table top review, with cold bare hands it is just too aggressive and immediately create an hot-spot when e.g. working with wood for fire prep. Same can be valid for such a smooth, superbly polished handle; once in use, with wet or bloody hands, the whole knife can turn into a soap bar under the shower. That beautiful sheath, with great fit & finish and fantastic knife retention, as I walk through winding woods trails, always gets stuck into the vegetation. That super steel that I could have sharpen rather easily at home with all my good set of diamond hones, stones and compounds here, in the woods, with that small field stone not only doesn’t want to sharpen up properly but also spoiled the flavour of the food. I consider these a learning and a kind of test results for durability, reliability and overall quality. Surely I draw my own conclusion - which have no validity but for myself - but they will influence my next purchase and trust/esteem in the respective brands for sure. If my 10 EUR knife easily outperform my 100 EUR knife in the same category, this is something I consider (and might even have a public say about 
); in the same way I have learned when it’s OK, for me, to carry just an Opinel #8 for an hike or pack the Fallknivens, or when a certain blade finish is fine to employ, in my own uses, without damaging or destroying it.
. It's just hard to work out why.
In a similar vein, why not dig a hole or trench with a teaspoon or spork?
Not a dig at you Stabman, as this stuff's all over the net.
