Okay you Knifeaholics... tell me you NEVER used a knife for a screwdriver (or prybar)

copfish

copfish

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Come on guys! I want the truth... I am certain that most of us have used our knives for other than knifely purposes... fess up!
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I'm guilty
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Haven't done it as often since I started carrying a multi tool about 6 years ago. Now I just abuse the hell out of it. It makes a much better prybar when you wedge the flat edge of the point on the pliars under something and then twist on the handles than any knife
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But everyonce in a awhile you do what needs to be done with what you have.

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It'll feel better when it stops hurting.
 
Yep, I'm guilty too, I even broke the lock on a Buck 110 from misuse, but like Matt said, sometimes you have to make do with what you have.

Jake
 
Guilty; done more damage to knives this way than anything else.
Using as a screwdriver is the worst. Can't stop doing it; its the reason I now try to carry a multitool more often.
 
Used to use my knives as just about any tool they needed to be (including a hammer). However, I've learned better and mended my ways (meaning, I don't do much that involves tools, so I don't really get the opportunity to do stupid things to my knives).

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Copfish-

Yeah, I've done it. But I have only done it with relatively inexpensive blades like using the blade point on a SAK when I needed a small screwdriver. I would never have the nerve to try it with my Tom Mayo TNT. God, just think of the ration that I would probably (and deservedly) get from Tom when I sent my Talonite blade back to him for repair AGAIN (I did a stupid and rounded off the point while sharpening).
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-Steven
 
Not me
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For 30 years now, I have carried a craftsman screw drive that looks somewhat like a key, on my keyring. I use it all the time, sometimes every day. It sure is a lot better than bending keys or breaking knife blades. JohnR7
 
Not me. No way! I'm too much of a cheapskate to risk breaking or chipping a blade. Of course, I learned this by actually breaking the tip of a blade long ago.

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Hi my names Duck and im a knife abuser....Everyday my Spyderco Endura see's several hundred boxes,plastic wrap,heavy staples and yes it gets used to PRY the nails from pallet jack wheels..Also been using my Geno Denning C-Model alot...Held up better than I thought..By the end of the night its pretty dull but goes right back to shaving sharpness with a few laps of the steel..
 
Buck 110. Loaded fist. Bar-room brawl. The plea bargain deal I cut won't allow me to say more than that.
 
where did you come up with a topic like that? early on in my knifemaking career (?) i made a little thing i called an executive box opener...stiff knife about 5.5" long with bolsters and ivory handle and straight pointy blade....every one i ever made came back to me with the tip broken off because of misuse as some sort of prying instrument!

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Hmmm, let's see. I have used them for stirring coffee, as a fork of sorts, screwdriver(on occasion but only the cheap ones)
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. But I have never intentionally abused any good knives, just the cheap knockoffs.
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[This message has been edited by Roy (edited 09-22-2000).]
 
Yeah, the cheapies caught hell, but I don't have any anymore. SAKs have a flathead screwdriver anyway.
The only time I've used a knife for a prybar was in the yard the other day, tearing a partially rotted log apart with my Busse Basic #5. I'd heard of other people doing it and had to see.....
Ahh, peer pressure.
 
Only the small blade on a SAK to tighten the pivot screws on my glasses when I'm away from my home or office.
 
Hmm... I occasionally buy $4 hardware-store knives for when I need to do abusive things. For example, I was taking a metal electrical plat off of a wall. It was painted over. If I just pulled it off, the paint would tear at each screw, once I twisted it, and half the paint on the plate would be gone. So, I took out the cheapie and cut right along the edge of each screw head, and along the edge of the plate. That way, no paint tore. Of course, cutting directly on metal isn't good, so that's why I use the cheapie.

The only real non-cutting thing I ever use knives for is occasionally eating, as I sometimes don't have a fork available. Hint: if you put just the right amount of water in ramen noodles, they get soft like they should, but there is no extra water, so you can eat them with a knife blade (blades make horrible spoons).
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Me too, had to regrind the tip on my Endura. Of course, now it looks like crap. I guess we all learn our lesson somehow.

[This message has been edited by det (edited 09-22-2000).]
 
I've routinely carried a Boy Scout knife or an SAK for the last 40 years. I generally use a screwdriver blade for both screwing and prying. The only exception is using an SAK knife tip on tiny screws. I haven't wrecked a knife tip this way in more than a quarter century.
 
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