Prying with a 4" fixed CRK

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Brian6244

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Please share with me your stories of prying various items with your 4" CRK one piece fixed blade knives. I have a Shadow III and I use it hard and really want to use it even harder :) but would like to hear of other peoples experiences first. About the only thing I havent done done with it (besides crushing stones of course) is really heavy prying. I done my fair share of prying already in the short time I have had it but nothing that I'd consider really heavy... yet. :eek:
 
When it comes to heavy prying you have always stay tuned beacuse EVERY knife can be broken no matter of design, steel and maker who has done it.

A bit intuition is needed while heavy prying unless you have 0,25'' thick large blade :p For example - I wouldn't reccomend hanging 200 lbs on shadow 3... :eek: but prying stucked door, using raw phisical strength etc - I think it's no problem.
 
I would suggest that you buy a cheap $10 pry bar! I can't understand why you would want to risk breaking a $200 + knife.
 
sharp thoughts said:
I would suggest that you buy a cheap $10 pry bar! I can't understand why you would want to risk breaking a $200 + knife.
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Knives are tools, plain and simple, regardless of cost. They are also life savers and life takers. I also believe that the best tool for the job is the one you have on you at the time. If the only tool on you is a $200 fixed blade, such as a Shadow III, and you are in a life saving situation where you need to pry a door them by all means USE IT!!! I would not waste time asking around if anyone has a prybar on them. Besides, more people carry knives than prybars. A life is worth more than any amount paid for the tool used to save it. CRK knives are meant to be used. They can and will pry but it would take extreme mechanical forces to break one. The force exuded by the human body would not be enough to break the knife, IMHO.
 
MelancholyMutt said:
breaking no, but you might lose a point here or there... no matter what the maker is
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Which can easily be repaired by CRK. If I use any of my knives just once to save one life and it breaks it was well worth the cost as well as the cost to replace it. I had carried another manufacturers knife on my turnout gear for years before I actually used it. When I did use it I broke it getting someone out of a wrecked car. I used it once! I threw away the knife, went to my locker, pulled another one of six I have off the shelf and continued on. I guess to me a knife is just that, a knife. It's just a knife. It can be replaced. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you have to use your $$$$$ knife to save yourself or someone else, whether it be as a prybar or cutter, you should feel confident that it could do the job and do it well.
 
K.V. Collucci said:
It's just a knife. It can be replaced. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you have to use your $$$$$ knife to save yourself or someone else, whether it be as a prybar or cutter, you should feel confident that it could do the job and do it well.
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that's why I can't bring myself to carry and possibly wreck a Sebenza...
 
Sebenza isn't for prying!! :eek:

It's superb cutting tool but if ya wanna pry - use thick strider or busse, or larger OPR CRK blades. Simple.
 
..not sure if you saw it Brian6244, but a few threads down I had a thread (SIII usefullEDC) in this forum. Hardly a lifesaving thing but it was a great hasslesaver and the knife came though with flying colors, but as someone suggested above, I now have a gooseneck and a small prybar in vehicle.
cheers
 
I did see the thread about the painted shut window. That is actually what inspired me to ask for more info about experiences (if there were any) from anyone else. I carry my Shadow3 daily. I have no intention of carrying a prybar around! I would like to know how much prying this knife can handle before someone's life depends on it. :D
 
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