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

Oh yah!!!
I have broken the tips of many knives. My Grandpa used to get so mad at me. I havent used my knives as screwdrivers in years, but I still (occasionaly) pry with them depending on the knife that I am carrying at the time. I also carry a multitool and that has minimized the abuse my knives take.

Shawn.
 
Nope ~ not me!

I was brought up with firm understanding that a knife is a tool and as a tool it has several specific purposes.

Real simple........use a screwdriver (not of liquid embellishment) like a screwdriver! Use a hammer like a hammer! Use a gun like a gun! And finally, use a knife like a knife!

When you use "tools" for their intended purposes........they seem to last alot longer!

I have my doubts about those who use a $200+ knife like a $4 screwdriver or $6 hammer!
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Light prying with a camp knife YES.
Use a knife as a screwdriver NO.
No. of broken blade tips = 0
No. of broken knives 2; both traditional folders - broken scales resulting from dropping on hard surface.
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Not a bad record after 25 years of knife play.



[This message has been edited by not2sharp (edited 09-22-2000).]
 
I'VE GOT IT!!!!!!! I will grind the tip of your folder into a screwdriver tip and send it back to you.....
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..great idea yea! too late though..i sent it back this morning....sharpened it too.

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Yea, until I learned to carry a Leatherman, I used to abuse my carry folder. Thankfully it was one of the older (1980s) Buck 110s with 440c and a great company behind it.

Now, I have better knives ... and better sense.

Between the Sebenza and the Wave (or Crunch depending on what I am doing), I'm set.
 
Uh-uh, not me. I gots the screw bits on my multi-tools to do the job. The blades are strictly for cutting..
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Sam

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Yep Copfish....guilty as charged...but like many offenders I outgrew my bad habits as I matured. Way back when the only thing I had on me was a 2 or 3 blade Case or UH I always reserved one blade for 'misc. duty'. This would include for screwdriving, prying, scraping rust, cutting wire...you name it. Yea...I've got many stuck away with busted, bent or otherwise abused blades. I once even ground down a busted tip and profiled it to make it a better screwdriver. Nowdays I have a multitool Gerber, Schrade, LM or pos throwaways everywhere I go and every vehicle. Since I carry better blades now I am more descriminating on how I use it and ofter reach for the multitool as needed. Even so once in a while you just gotta use whatever you got. Wasn't too long ago I had to punch thru a busted windshield...and what did I use...the butt of my 710 in my cloth wrapped fist. Yea it kinda knarled up the spacer and put a few dents in the edge of the g10...but otherwise still aOK. Heck its still just a worker...but I do wish I had had a better tool for the job at hand...but ya gotta do stuff sometimes.
 
Sometimes (rarely) when I am without my Micra and/or SAK, I do use my Mayo TNT to gently "lift" staples... like I said on another post, Glocks make lousy screwdrivers, maybe I could reprofile the front sight... Okay Tom, I will tie my Micra to my Ultralight TNT so this will never happen again! BTW... can a screwdriver/prybar tip be added to a TNT???
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No, I have Never done anything like that.
Use my knife as a prybar Never!
Use my knife to open paint cans Never!
Use My knife as a screwdriver Never!
Break off the tip stabbing my knife into a tree Never!
Using a hammer and my pocket knife to make kindling Never!
Use my knife as a hammer Never!
Use my knife as a wedge to seperate the head from the block on an chevy 327 Never!

I would Never abuse my knifes.


OUCH!!!

My nose just hit the screen!!!!
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Fish,

My Mayo talonite bootknife makes a good all around tool, for everything. I know that some of my use may border on abuse, but I also know that Tom is now hooked on Padron Aniversarios... and it won't take many of them for him to restore my blade to new!!!

Michael

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Indeed I have abused knives, but not badly, and not nearly so much since I started carrying a Leatherman. I have used knives as flat head screwdrivers and prybars. The only knife I ever broke, which happened to be the last in a long line of POS knives, was while prying open a locked glove box. I had just gotten the knife and knew that it was cheap, but I didn't know how cheap - this was a way of testing it. The POS just folded sideways, and I just laughed
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Then I took out a real knife and pryed the glove box open. That's the only knife I ever broke, and I've never broke off the tip of a blade. If light prying is abuse, then it is acceptable abuse. Just today I used my mini-AFCK to scrape some dried glue off of a wooden desk, scratched up the desk a bit, but the knife is fine. I think any good knife should be built to handle at least a moderate amount of "abuse."

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That's why I like my Busse Mean Street so much. I use the hell out of it. Yes I nicked the blade and wore off the coating. I used it to open paint cans, pry up roofing nails and staples and pry boards apart. But I sure get a lot of work done with it. It is the right tool for the job and I never feel like I'm abusing it (well...maybe just a little). It's not much of a screwdriver but for prying and rough planing, it's a handy little item.

I rarely use knives as screwdrivers, and when I do, I try to use the spine instead of the edge. I aways carry a knife that HAS screwdrivers built in.
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JKM
 
19 years of knife use/collecting. Never a broken knife. Like Gigone, I only use the right tool for the right job. I always have a leatherman on me so that does the trick.

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