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hauntedchild

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Show your knife that you grab for things you wouldnt dare do with another but it just keeps on performing . You know shop knives , knife in your tool box , you just plain sharpen and go , improvised handle and the like .
 
This is my go to beater. Shortly after this, I used it to dig grout out of my backsplash. Took me awhile to get edge back right after that lol

It's fairly new so it's not showing too many signs yet. Gimme a few weeks, especially once spring hits and I'm in the shop a bunch more. Usually I carry traditionals, but when I know it's gonna get beat up, or be in and out and used a bunch, I carry this also.

 
Very nice. The sebs are made to be worked hard. It's nice to see it getting used how it should.
SVTFreak said:
This is my go to beater. Shortly after this, I used it to dig grout out of my backsplash. Took me awhile to get edge back right after that lol

It's fairly new so it's not showing too many signs yet. Gimme a few weeks, especially once spring hits and I'm in the shop a bunch more. Usually I carry traditionals, but when I know it's gonna get beat up, or be in and out and used a bunch, I carry this also.

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Best 20 bucks I ever spent. Used and abused for years, yet still going strong.

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I have a few beaters in various locations......car, work truck & tool bag, but these 2 have been truly beaten & just keep coming back for more!!
The Guardian is in 3v......don't doubt anything you hear about 3v!! It is amazing!! I recently removed a ton of flex duct that was held in place by HUGE zip ties. The flex fits over heavy tin collars. I slid the knife under the ties and twisted it to break them. It sliced paper after doing that quite a few times!! Great steel on a great knife!!
The Pac Salt is nothing short of a pocket chain saw!!!
Joe
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Another "beater" thread, which is coolness.

I've had a number of beaters, or work knives. Currently it is a modified Svord Mini Peasant.

The OP brought to mind a thread I started some years back with the phrase "improvised handle" etc. though. Thread title was something like "What is the knife you use for things you shouldn't use a knife for". Mine is a Mora blade I got in bad shape with a ruined handle at a flea market which I stuck in a file handle.

I meant a sharpened hunk of metal you keep in your tool box with a cardboard sheath to cut wire, tin cans, scrape with, yadda.

There are beaters, then there are beaters.
 
This Anza is the one that scrapes the gaskets and pops open the frozen car doors:

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I tried not to do a repeat . I did a searches with different wording and didn't find anything substantial . We always show blue ribbon knives , I wanna see those mules .
 
hauntedchild said:
I tried not to do a repeat . I did a searches with different wording and didn't find anything substantial . We always show blue ribbon knives , I wanna see those mules .
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Many threads repeat. New people, new knives, new ideas, all good.
 
I have quite a few that I treat like beaters, but these ones instantly come to mind. Pacific Salt, Adamas, Grip



 
For me it is this Manix 2 with M4 steel. I use it when I'm doing repairs around the house. It gets to cut and scrape things, carve wood, etc. It had a patina when I got it so I looked at it more like a tool than a knife.

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This one is always in my pocket it's the one I grab to do everything.

So I guess that makes it my beater.

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My EDC. Griptilians make great beaters. The 154cm steel is pretty tough, doesn't chip easily, and easy to resharpen after scraping a gasket or other edge ruining task.


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